c/europe · u/cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 72 points
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
https://archive.is/2025.06.21-110858/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html
u/cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 points
the infra behind is the same. aws , google, microsoft many organisation are moving or have moved to the cloud. yes some still have on premises infra or country provider but this is moving.
u/cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 points
Assume any corporation using cloud infrastructure that might not be that easy per say.
u/Mihies@programming.dev · 1 points
I guess pressure from corporations and their governments is the culprit. Also local politicians mostly don't know a shit about IT.
u/BigShammy80@feddit.org · 1 points
Germany's Military is now 10 years bound to Google cloud and some of our government administrations has ditched Linux and are going back to Microsoft 🤷♂️ Fails everywhere in a time, where we should go full open source and be independent to US
u/Mihies@programming.dev · 4 points
If they are using that, then they deserve it. So does my "we ♥️ Microsoft" government.
u/ragas@lemmy.ml · 2 points
Its not hard to switch to a different e-mail provider
u/shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 points
LOL! What in the world makes you think governments, let alone world leaders, are using the likes of Gmail?!
A more realistic fear would be the US forcing major social media to pull the plug on someone.
u/MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 11 points
It's not "shutting down" people should be concerned about, it's espionage.
u/cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 points
It's quite crazy when you think about it. Many of us use Gmail or Outlook for personal and professional communication, but imagine if the U.S. government, under Trump, decided to shut down the email accounts of Macron or any other European leader simply because they disagreed with something. I believe this could significantly speed up the shift away from big tech companies in Europe and potentially around the globe.