We went from vague talk of The Tik Tok Threat to its expropriation to banning ~all hardware and software made by Chinese companies in 5 mins. About as long as it took US media to go from timid objections to calling the horse race on Tik Tok’s new owners 👏 state.gov/announcing-the…
Let’s hope it doesn’t take Europe 5 years to wake up to the new reality. The splinternet is here. It’s time to secure your digital sovereignty.
The irony of the US warning that the CCP might spy on you after @Snowden revealed the ACTUAL wholesale spying of the entire internet, and the endless scandals of US big tech giants doing the same, is... red?
It took the EU almost seven years for Snowden’s revelations to motivate the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the Schrems II case. Let’s hope Europeans don’t have to wait until 2027 for a response to this State department edict.
But back to the US proclamation. Calling countries that sign on to not allowing Chinese technology "Clean Countries" isn't so much a racist dog whistle as just a racist whistle. We're not far off Operation Pure White here.
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