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Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it (www.politico.eu)

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Trump is back — and with him, the risk that the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is forcing Europe to reckon with a major digital vulnerability: The U.S. holds a kill switch over its internet.

As the U.S. administration raises the stakes in a geopolitical poker game that began when Trump started his trade war, Europeans are waking up to the fact that years of over-reliance on a handful of U.S. tech giants have given Washington a winning hand.

The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.

Cloud computing is the lifeblood of the internet, powering everything from the emails we send and videos we stream to industrial data processing and government communications. Just three American behemoths — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — hold more than two-thirds of the regional market, putting Europe’s online existence in the hands of firms cozying up to the U.S. president to fend off looming regulations and fines.

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[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

I was mainly mentioning servers outside US in the context of me blocking access to/from US personally. If US blocked it all everywhere, that woudn't be possible. You'd at best have the data up to that point in time, until the block, but no further, unless the companies update their servers physically, with, like, USBs, CDs, Floppy Disks.

As for already connecting to data centers nearby, some of my top US connections, according to NextDNS, are, ironically, from Spotify, which, afaik, is European.

Few hours is a short time Yeah, but remember this also affects everyday people. I was mainly thinking of them, I guess. Akin to a nation-wide power outage. You see just how much you depend on it, and what it'd be like without it. It may already be so ingrained in one's everyday life. To realise to what extent, can be eye-opening. Most people probably wouldn't expect, and could be surprised, by stuff mentioned, such as GPS and payments, not working. Or just something that, in the background, relies on a big US company, like Amazon servers or something

pfsense Will look into that. And also look for the keywords, see what else I can find. Let's see if I go through with such experiment