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2026-04-23 07:21 UTC

The Business Software Alliance (with Microsoft, OpenAI and IBM among its members) just published a survey supposedly showing that “Europeans evaluate tech services for quality, price, and security – not headquarter location”: https://techpost.bsa.org/2026/04/22/bsa-survey-europeans-value-openness-security-and-quality-in-choosing-tech-services/ The design is poor and contains wild assumptions like “Assuming that all tech providers follow EU rules”, obviously failing to acknowledge that the US govt is using the entrenched position of US tech to demand a relaxation of these rules 2/x

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@alineblankertz@indieweb.social 2026-04-23 07:23

(let alone systematic non-compliance with DMA, DSA, Article 102, GDPR, etc etc). But on the EU side, things are not much better. The pure industry side of the “Eurostack” initiative (see their trademark dispute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroStack) advocates for Schwarz Digits to become the winner of a sovereignty measurement exercise by the European Commission: https://eurostack.eu/blog/measuring-european-cloud-sovereignty/ Schwarz Digits is a company that is happy with a subordinated role to Google (their collab: https://schwarz-digits.de/en/presse/archive/2024/companies-of-schwarz-group-and-google-to-sign-partnership-to-jointly-deliver-sovereign-secure-workplace-productivity-solutions-for-germany-and-europe) 3/x

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