Post #4385299
2026-08-04 11:20 UTC
There's a joke from eastern Canada I think of often in situations like this. Its punchline goes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here."
But here we are. And speaking of Canada, while it has many problems, it is not (as of time of writing) the USA, but it *is* connected to the USA via the internet.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-04 11:20
Which means that Americans could - hypothetically - source their computing infrastructure from companies that were based in Canada, and who strictly ensured that they had no dependency on US services and scrupulously avoided a US "enforcement nexus": https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography/ 8/