This is not about whether the United States would misuse that access — it is about the structural error of building a system that allows it. Sovereignty built on trust is not sovereignty at all.
Largely agree with this article, in fact the issue it covers is a driver behind why i choose AZ over commercial social media, that distance from the coercive social media controls and closeness to the owner of this social media afforded by AZ is something to be valued. In my opinion.
My only problem with the article is a quiet assumption that I think is highly debatable. Have we ever truly been a sovereign nation? I’d maybe argue the same case differently, that we have reached a scale as a nation now that some form of harder sovereignty, than we have claimed thus far, can realistically be considered.
No, we had the Poms until WW2, now we have the yanks. Anyone that believes we’ve ever truly ‘stood alone’ is clearly deluded. Perhaps we might one day, but that would take a different sort of leadership. Likely the sort that most of us would consider objectionable.
This was a big bear of mine decades ago, I gave up trying to convince my local MP at the time it was an issue.
hmm, i get that. I suppose a local MP is only a single voice. Even for someone like that it would’ve been like standing against a tidal wave. Hopefully since COVID, and now the shaky geopolitical scene more people are taking decisions impacting sovereign risk more carefully. Or its pie in the sky, and our establishment is too far ingrained to theirs, with more impactful highlighting of the issue being required if any real policy were to be changed.
