shitshow25 Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2026 09:10AM

So France just ripped out every American tech platform from their entire government. Microsoft Teams? Gone. Zoom? Fuck off. Gmail? Au revoir, dickhead.

That's 2.5 million French workers no longer using American software. France is saving 30 million dollars a year that was flowing to Silicon Valley. Germany's ditching Microsoft, saving 15 million euros. Austria, Denmark, Switzerland - all jumping ship. This is BILLIONS walking out the door.

And why? Because you absolute muppets elected a guy so fucking unhinged that Europe decided depending on American technology is a national security threat.

Trump's whole thing was bringing jobs back to America, right? Making America Great Again? Instead, this spray-tanned dipshit has fucked American tech companies so badly that Europe's spending billions to build competitors. He's literally creating rivals to Microsoft and Google through pure incompetence.

He threatened NATO allies like they're real estate he can flip, and now they're building their own internet. Microsoft's desperately trying to calm everyone down while their biggest export market walks away.

China and Russia are fucking THRILLED. Putin's praising Trump's chaos. Trump's doing more damage to American economic dominance than any foreign adversary ever could.

And the worst part? Seventy-five million Americans looked at this dumpster fire and voted for it TWICE. You elected someone so spectacularly stupid that he convinced Europe to ditch American products and build their own.

Congratulations, Trump voters. You wanted to own the libs. Instead you owned American companies out of billions, destroyed American credibility, and handed economic opportunities to our competitors.

You voted for a Mango Mussolini Oompa Loompa motherfucker with the geopolitical sophistication of a swamp turd, and now American tech companies are paying the price.

France is giving America the finger. And honestly? Trump fucking earned it.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2026 10:04AM

EU has been talking about building a cloud provider alternative to AWS, GCP and Azure for years.

OVHcloud is getting some size behind it finally, but until those 3 can be ditched the data will always be accessible by the US, no matter what.

"We use a gmail alternative, they store their data in S3 buckets".........

woberto Report This Comment
Date: February 12, 2026 12:13AM

France is not capable of causing a 1c share price fluctuation to any of those entities.
But good on them, trying and claw back some data and privacy is always good. No sane person, and no government, would ever allow Gmail because they state quite clearly in the EULA that they will take ALL your metadata and sell it. They never ever tried to hide it.
UK switched to EV's for government cars and most are obviously Chinese, so there are signs in the cars reminding staff to never make phone calls whilst in or near the car and not to discuss business of any kind. The MOD banned them last year too.