Context
The Trump administration classified the Italian hacktivist group Autistici / Inventati as a terrorist organisation[1], meaning that American companies could no longer do business with them.
The immediate outcome was the closure of their Paypal account used for donations, and the loss of one of their .org domains, which is managed by the Public Interest Registry, an American non-profit company.
Before that, that administration retaliated against International Criminal Court Judge Nicolas Guillou and former EU commissioner Thierry Breton as well as four of his collaborators by sanctioning them, which essentially cut them off American services likes bank processors and parcel delivery, among other things.
My questions
Given that most Europeans are not activists nor political figures, how likely do you think it is to happen to individuals? Do you believe that Trump could use sanctions and embargos against the entire EU or some of its countries as leverage? The rational part of me thinks no, but we have seen so much crazy shit since his mandate started that my anxious side leans yes.
Personally, I have been trying to reduce my reliance on US tech and companies for the past two years, because really, the US cannot longer be trusted. And maybe I am overreacting, but I’ve got myself a .eu domain to replace the .com I use for self-hosting.
People in the Netherlands were like: “Probably fine, it’s over there.”
Then they invaded, found records of what religion people following and started going after the Jewish population.
The best data is that which does not exist and cannot fall into the wrong hands.
No. They were absolutely not. My Oma(Grandmother) was Dutch and lived through the occupation.
As I was told growing up:
They knew Jewish people were being attacked, but also, as it got closer to WW2, that they were increasingly being arrested and just vanishing. Local Jewish families started to flee Europe entirely, everyone knew that war was likely and that Netherlands would be invaded.
One such family had a lawyer who was friends with my great-grandfather, but he also had a sick, elderly mother who couldnt make the trip to the US. My great grandfather sheltered them before the war started. They were turned in during the war by a neighbor. The lawyer and his mother died in the camps, the Nazis let my Great Grandfather out in a prisoner release(and tried to get the lawyer and Dutch jews out) that was the exchamge for using a local factory(which gave them intentionally faulty parts).
My Oma’s family then joined the resistance.
Yep, in these times we have to grow into heroes as Hannie Schaft.