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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by petercooper on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:40AM (#43150678)
If you look at other countries/regions that impose high tariffs, their companies continue to buy and use American technologies and absorb the cost (to their local customers' detriment).

I'd certainly enjoy the case studies of European enterprises jumping from full-scale Azure and AWS deployments to OVHcloud or Hetzner, though. That'd make for some interesting reading.

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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 23, 2025 @11:43AM (#43150716)
But what if they outright ban it, as the US was going to do with TikTok (for national security reasons)? This it the tech services version of Nord Stream.
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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by VSerge on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:29PM (#43151166)
Impossible, even in the current crazy atmosphere. An actual ban would mean an all-out commercial war and a very serious dent in globalization.
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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:35PM (#43151205)
We are rapidly approaching that point. Globalization is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_4DvPO-7w

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/airbus-could-prioritise-non-...

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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by Marsymars on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:58PM (#43155398)
It's not really workable. The real-world impact of a TikTok ban, even if it outright stopped working on every American device overnight is pretty minimal; people stop watching videos, and some influencers lose their jobs.

If my (Canadian) government decides to ban Azure in a year, my critical infrastructure company ignores it for 11 months because they figure it won't actually happen, and then goes to the government to tell them that if the ban actually goes through, our infrastructure stops working because we'd actually need a multi-year timeframe to migrate off of Azure.

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