Seems like that is the default course of action when one country is doing a “bad” thing that the US or Europe doesn’t like.
I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever. But could the EU and/or Canada or even China impose sanctions on the US now since the US is doing, um, very bad things?
Sure. But that quickly turns into
No Microsoft, google, or Apple. No GitHub, Intel, or AMD. No Facebook or Netflix, Disney, etc.
It is nearly impossible to escape financial involvement with USA companies, and it’s why countries under sanctions from USA are not wealthy.
Not selling me on those downsides. Sounds like a much better world without those.
Get the EU and Canada on chip manufacturing and remove the American anti circumvention laws and get the hackers on jailbreaking their tech.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=1045
Kind of funny how you said that to no Google, then posted a YouTube link.
It’s for the stupid normies that refuse to click on other websites.
Here is the original link: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=1045
Corey Doctorow had a presentation this past week at the C3 hacker conference arguing that all our allies only agreed to be ruled by US tech hegemony in exchange for free trade agreements, and if they want a win-win solution to getting f’d, they should repeal their laws against jailbreaking US tech.
Tech sovereignty is already (finally) an issue the rest of the world is waking up to. I hope they go much farther and faster.
This is why I’m rooting for Chinese IT to catch up. We need some fucking diversity and competition.
But that’s exactly the point. Losing those companies large portions of their customer base will have them quickly lobbying in your favor.
China have done so a couple of times already, responding to the US putting sanctions on them. That’s what the “rare earth” stuff on the news is about.
Large countries tend to not respond to sanctions the same way than smaller ones. With enough people interested, there are many ways to evade sanctions, and a dynamic economy can always adapt and use different products or services.
Are those sanctions or tariffs you’re talking about? Tariffs and sanctions are two different things
I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever
They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.
Cutting them off from “western banking”…
Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.
Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.
There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.
But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.
He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.
Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.
For lots of European countries it’s either the US or Russia. We stop kissing Yank ass, and Russia will beat ours.
Do you WANT World War 3? Cause that’s how you get WW3.
For what it’s worth I’m not real fond of living in one of the villains.
That is the equivalent of stepping on an elephant’s foot. Negligible
not if it comes from China or india, or the EU as a whole
