• whatthey@feddit.uk
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    14 days ago

    The US will absolutely panic once this starts to spread.

    They will have no control, and no eyes on what Europe does with its money.

    Power to the EU.

    No doubt they are lobbying hard to bring this to the attention of Jabba the Trump.

    Now UK has to step up and join

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      13 days ago

      Brazil and India already have their own systems which are up and running.

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        13 days ago

        Yeah, I was shocked to learn how dependant EU was on American technology.

        I think it boils down to national pride. Both Brazil and India took pride in making their own payments system. Eu was pretty chill until uncle Donny came.

        It’s like, don’t try to fix what’s not broken, and Trump broke it. Though honestly, they should have started earlier, I think as early as Trump’s first term.

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          8 days ago

          Pride? No man, what Brazil and India have in common is being CHEAP. We frugal, homeboy. Got no money to be sending the USA.

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      13 days ago

      nah, all the US government has to do is ask Apple and Google to delist the wero app and it’ll be cooked

      digital sovereignty and mandatory locked down rectangles are fundamentally incompatible

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        13 days ago

        That won’t fly. The EU is a massive market for Apple and Google they won’t want to lose.

        But hey, I’d love those monopolies to burn too, so be great to see the problem of them highlighted like that.

        Digital sovereignty is suddenly a hot topic.

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          10 days ago

          Apple and Google won’t have much of a choice if the government demands it. Will the current government? Maybe, maybe not. Will the next? Who knows.

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            10 days ago

            This is why digital sovereignty is so import. We deal with the companies now or we may never be able to.