Comment by cjrp
8 hours ago
> building a worse version of AWS just so that it is "European" makes no financial sense
Unless it becomes necessary because of EU regulation?
8 hours ago
> building a worse version of AWS just so that it is "European" makes no financial sense
Unless it becomes necessary because of EU regulation?
Hopefully not. This hate towards good technology and innovation because you don’t like the current president is ridiculous. He’ll be gone in two years or so and then we’ll get back to normal.
Wishful thinking at the early days of any autocratic government, until reality kicks in elections are only a ritual to pretend otherwise.
> This hate towards good technology and innovation
Mine is to a collective people that vote in these people. I get that people can change, grow, evolve etc but I didnt trust a german for 60 years, I wont trust an american for at least a generation.
I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago
It isn't just Trump. The CLOUD Act basically gives Washington the power and ability to turn off any server operated by any US company at will/whim.
The Wikipedia page only talks about stored data on (optionally foreign) servers without any sort of regard for the laws of the country where that server is located. It ignores the part of the statute where the feds can basically "turn off" that server. And that is the part that the EU is panicking over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The same thing that any EU based company can be forced to by the country under which jurisdiction it operates.
I don’t see what the problem is. That they actually used it first?
And they already did that. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague was cut off Office 365 (and e-mail hosted through that), as well as credit cards and bank cards. This did send a shockwave through Europe.
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Has nothing to do with Trump. Trump just made the need more obvious but these talks are not new.
I don't thing things are going back to the previous state of affairs after this.
As things are moving, there's currently no garantee that Trump won't hold his promise US citizen will never have to vote again.
And even if the bipartisan system make a small turn over, the issue is systemic.
Can you mention a single decent product that came out "because of EU regulation"?
I didn't say it would be decent, just that it might make financial sense.
Hetzner seems to be a pretty good example. It wasn't solely because of EU regulation, but once GDPR made it a worthwhile investment to companies to segregate their data, European data centers have been growing steadily.
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