Digital Sovereignty is important, considering my government (the United States of America) is no longer the consumer-friendly, business-friendly, democratic nation it once was.
And being overseas does not mean a company is outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Proton is a good example of that. They started in Switzerland, and if they stayed in Switzerland, or expanded elsewhere except the USA, they would never have fallen under U.S. jurisdiction.
OVH, sadly, also now falls under U.S. jurisdiction. Originally, their American servers were not their own. OVH leased them as a customer, the same way you would lease a server, but resold those services. A bit of a gray area, but if U.S. laws or policies became a problem, they could pull out—the same way you'd cancel a subscription. Today, however, OVH Cloud has datacenters, offices, and is registered in the USA, which places them under U.S. jurisdiction.
Once you're here, as far as our legal code is concerned, you're our b*tch. Don't come here.
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