I do not think Americans realise the far reaching economic consequences of having elected Donald Trump.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

I do not think Americans realise the far reaching economic consequences of having elected Donald Trump.

While the Danes have elected a new parliament which may push for less military purchases from the U.S., the citizens of Denmark have now presented two new citizen petitions: One requiring parliament to make it illegal to use Peter Thiel's Palantir AI surveilance software, and another one preventing the use of American technologies in our national health systems.

Welcome to the Trump economy.

[jimmyb@mas.to]

@randahl something every country should be doing. Good leadership from the Danes!

[ronanmcd@mastodon.green]

@randahl good on Denmark and the informed public

[cisene@mastodon.social]

@randahl Swedes and Sweden should follow too.

We could even collaborate around creating systems for medical journals together, modular, open source, API-first.

[darren@c.im]

@randahl I think its becoming clear to most of them by now. What a wasted opportunity the last 25 years have been.

[nigel_lake@mastodon.world]

@randahl How long until "American technologies " includes Microsoft?

[vikingchieftain@mstdn.social]

@randahl

Go Denmark!

[brokar@mastodon.social]

@randahl Germany has not yet come that far. They're still considering mass surveillance and use of Palantir etc., even though the EU courts have ruled multiple times already that mass surveillance and storage of said data is illegal. But they don't stop pushing. Both major parties, CDU/CSU and SPD. They really think they can solve crime with a mouse click and AI.
Hopeless.
And the dumb herd still votes for them every 4 years when they don't vote for the Nazis.
I hope Denmark will set standards.

[bubblegumyeti@mastodon.social]

@randahl As it should be

[swggrkllr3rd@mastodon.world]

@randahl Before UK can come back to EU, they ditch palantir. https://mastodon.world/@swggrkllr3rd/116017878026457262

[lukeharby@infosec.exchange]

@randahl Doesn't Denmark produce the world's highest renewable energy per capita? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

[rightsprung@c.im]

@randahl perfect. Here is hoping Canada will follow suit.

[mcv@friendica.opensocial.space]

@randahl

European governments and sensitive private infrastructure (like banks, healthcare, etc) should not be using US cloud providers at all. It's been blatantly obvious that they're legally unable to obey our laws, and under Trump, that conflict has become a lot more urgent.

[mcv@friendica.opensocial.space]

@Nigel_Lake @randahl

It should include all US cloud services, including Azure. And Windows 11 is such a security nightmare it should be banned from government systems anyway.

[paladin@mastodon.nu]

@randahl The leadership from down up will hurt the most. No compromises.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@randahl

In the end the America as envisioned by Trump will stand alone.
And it will need a lot of repair to let the trust upon this vile treason return.
Trump should be removed and put on trial.

We have the examples from Brazil and South Korea… his behavior is unacceptable and unconstitutional.

[taatm@mathstodon.xyz]

@randahl
Exactly as I predicted. US tech is a global leader because the US military was the security leader and demanded equal access for tech markets that fail ethical tests.

US provided security was a gift that turned into a trade. The US has pulled their side and technology will now flip to European. It’s the Google and Starbucks tax rebalance I’m looking forward to.

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@xs4me2 @randahl Unfortunately I don't think enough Americans understand that simply electing not-Trump, doesn't resolve the issue. Without prosecutions and structural changes, tyranny is only an election away. No country in their right mind is going to trust us until such actions are taken, and even then it will take quite a while to regain any semblance of international trust we had before.

[pettet8@mastodon.social]

@randahl They also decided in June 2025 to ditch Microsoft and go for open source LibreOffice.. This shift is also taking place in other EU countries with a strong drive to open-source software. For Example all 85.000laptops used by the French Gendarmerie are using Ubuntu as their OS. By late 2027 all 2.5 million government personnel in France will be using open source software (they started in 2024 with this project)

[chrisholladay@mastodon.social]

@randahl
They didnt care as long as they could hate everyone legally.