Whew, this comment has a lot to unpack. Big Tech using "we're the best defense against scary scary China" is ridiculous, because at the end of the day, Big Tech is happy to play ball with China when it gives them money. (Even Google tried to go back until it became politically problematic, Microsoft and Apple both do business there.) And Big Tech copies all of the behavior we are afraid of from China: Endless surveillance, punishment with no chance of appeal, etc.

I would encourage anyone who has ever tried the "but China" defense for Big Tech to go back to the drawing board, and come up with something that isn't out of the Trumpist playbook.

Second: Europe has access to a robust collection of open source solutions that are also used by many of those same companies. You can absolutely create a managed experience working around the already tried-and-true Linux platform, and Windows is, of course, still perfectly serviceable if appropriately neutered by policy and a quality enterprise-class firewall.

Europe should absolutely be applauded for keeping their citizen's data increasingly in-house, particularly because we in the US have repeatedly failed to put Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg in the prison cells they so desperately belong in.