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Comment by criddell

18 hours ago

The consequences may include the loss of:

  • Bank accounts and payment processing.
  • U.S.-linked donations and fundraising services.
  • Hosting, cloud infrastructure and upstream network services.
  • Domain registration and related technical services.
  • Certificate, security and email-delivery accounts.
  • Software and communications services.
  • Relationships with non-U.S. providers frightened by American secondary   sanctions.
  • Access for people in the United States who currently use A/I’s services.

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defe...

My question now is whether European hosting providers sprouting up in the face of the US CLOUD act will step up to provide those services.

  • No, because they don't want to be banned from banks. With few exceptions, the US has power over all global financial systems. Also tier 1 ISPs (even the European ones), which trickles down to all ISPs.

  • Do you think many banks worldwide would enjoy declaring themselves the enemies of the US government in order to assist left-wing lunatics?

    • You misplaced "lunatics" in your sentence, though sadly the likely answer remains the same.