Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 on Nostr: "The commercial interests of US tech giants have fused with the country’s national ...

"The commercial interests of US tech giants have fused with the country’s national interests. We’re about to find out what ‘digital sovereignty’ really means" https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all For decades, it made sense to see their dominance as an example of what the late political scientist Joseph Nye called “soft power” . But once these corporations had realigned with Trump, they became elements of American “hard power”, with coercive overtones.""