Context

The Trump administration classified the Italian hacktivist group Autistici / Inventati as a terrorist organisation^1, meaning that American companies could no longer do business with them.

The immediate outcome was the closure of their Paypal account used for donations, and the loss of one of their .org domains, which is managed by the Public Interest Registry, an American non-profit company.

Before that, that administration retaliated against International Criminal Court Judge Nicolas Guillou and former EU commissioner Thierry Breton as well as four of his collaborators by sanctioning them, which essentially cut them off American services likes bank processors and parcel delivery, among other things.

My questions

Given that most Europeans are not activists nor political figures, how likely do you think it is to happen to individuals? Do you believe that Trump could use sanctions and embargos against the entire EU or some of its countries as leverage? The rational part of me thinks no, but we have seen so much crazy shit since his mandate started that my anxious side leans yes.

Personally, I have been trying to reduce my reliance on US tech and companies for the past two years, because really, the US cannot longer be trusted. And maybe I am overreacting, but I've got myself a .eu domain to replace the .com I use for self-hosting.

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[-] myrmidex@belgae.social -1 points 1 week ago

Code Rood (code red)

[-] Driver2956@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

This is the not the Belgium CR but the one from Netherland.

[-] AviAdi@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

So they disbanded because people got sick of ambulances being blocked on the streets and you think that's similar to what Trump did? 🤣🤣🤣

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

people got sick of ambulances being blocked on the streets

I've heard this used as baseless right-wing propaganda against Extinction Rebellion Netherlands, which does always coordinate with emergency services.

So do you have a source on Code Rood actually failing to do that? Or are you just spouting right-wing lies?

[-] myrmidex@belgae.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

they and prominent members are on terrorist watch lists. I'm not saying it's as bad as in Trumpland.

[-] AviAdi@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

Meh if you don't get on a list what are you even doing with your life at this point?

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