Comment by pu_pe
6 months ago
Denmark is at particular risk because if the US does something concrete against Greenland, they might want to retaliate with sanctions at the very least. Impossible to do that if you have a strong dependency on American tech companies.
> they might want to retaliate with sanctions at the very least.
Just like what happened to the International Criminal Court recently, when Microsoft tried to obstruct war crimes investigations by blocking their email: https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-...
This action made the mainstream Danish press, so it's probably contributed to the decision.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/microsofts-blokering-af-euro...
A precedent was set.