Europe Can't Defend Democracy on Us Servers
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The article argues that Europe's reliance on US servers for digital infrastructure undermines its ability to defend democracy, sparking a discussion on data sovereignty and the need for European digital autonomy.
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Almost all federal government agencies are on M365 in some capacity, with most having gone all in. State and territory agencies are similar, as is the corporate world.
If you look at the European map, what backends the governments are using, only the poor eastern countries still are on Windows, the rest already switched. Also Russia is off, China is off, only a few are still on the US spyware.