@hansw

A number of US based companies own datacenters in Europe.

Thankfully, my hosting site is a cooperative, based in France and pretty much committed to keeping under the EU legal umbrella.

US hosting or even traffic thru their backbone connections is surely subject to their draconian intelligence agencies and laws.

@zleap @globcoco

@rgx @hansw @globcoco I wonder if there is a reason Microsoft are buying tik tok,. Just think how many people they can spy on, so they are going from an aligation of sending data to the Chinese government (based on little evidence) to sending to the US government.

@zleap

sending data to the Chinese government (based on little evidence) to sending to the US government.

The American Tech Giants are of course THE WORST at doing that. And, it's been going for many years.

@hansw @globcoco

@rgx @hansw @globcoco Indeed but people seem to be blind or just deny it happens. They don't get why I don't want to use facebook, or google. Still argue no one they know uses the fediverse, I have made new friends here who I have proper conversations with. That is a big win for me, same as science forums I am discussing some really cutting edge science on there, down to some more basic science questions people are happy to help with.