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For EU citizens and residents: contact your local MEP.

The EU is a big ship and it takes time to turn around. That's fine and understandable, but I feel they haven't really understood the world has radicaly changed and they cannot hold onto the fairytale of US/EU cooperation, even if Trump is undone tomorrow, Hate towards us can come back in 4 or 8 years.

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[โ€“] Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

"Brussels and Washington have been joining forces for years to tame the technology giantโ€™s global ambitions, using digital diplomacy tools to convince third countries to ditch equipment from the Shenzhen-based firm."

Well, Silicon Valley based has started to look a lot like Shenzhen based to me lately. And no it is not just Trump (like as it is not Putin).

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 24 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad at least a part of us citizens are helping to steer the ship, a lot of political parties are willing to change positions of they see they're losing support. Germany is (slowly) ditching windows for example, the Netherlands wants to leave American cloud services, Denmark is promoting EU products. The fact that there are opposite forces working against this change, also proves it is starting to have real impact. I hope so at least.

[โ€“] albert180@piefed.social 12 points 17 hours ago

Germany is not ditching Windows. Some federal states do, while other dumbass states go full Office365

[โ€“] Szewek@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago

We should make an email/mail template if we want many people to contact their MEPs.

[โ€“] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago

Orban: that big ship sail where I permit it. I am the king of the EU. And Fico is... important too. Yeah, we both shit on the whole Europe and they are even paying us for that!