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[โ€“] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Itโ€™s the same with Chinese companies. In the past we thought that the US was benign but not any more.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never thought it and don't know why others did. If you where not American why would giving the US control of your infrastructure be a good thing? People just didn't plan for relations to change I guess.

[โ€“] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

You may not however in Australia our systems were supplied by US corporations for decades before cloud storage and processing became a thing. Every data centre was local but then some started to be owned/operated by those corporations, then started hosting in foreign countries. Itโ€™s a gradual transition where the risks were not obvious. Not so today.