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Itโ€™s honestly a fantastic idea

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago

I've already tried getting as much US services out (youtube is still a pain) to feed them less data. Also now using Ublock, Privacy Badger and Decenteraleyes. Think if everybody started doing that it could already have a great impact

[โ€“] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Do it. Do it to all US services, not just online. This won't affect the broken ass calculation US used to determine tariffs. US losses here won't even be noticed by USA. This allows France to crush US economy without even touching the trade deficite calculations Trump uses.

[โ€“] shinxir@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

While I support this, it goes further than just โ€œBigTechโ€. For example: the insurance market is getting more and more under the โ€œGuidewireโ€ suit from the company โ€œGuidewireโ€. Located in the US. They already stated two? years ago that they want all their customers in their vendor cloud.

Just an example, but the change needs to get deeper.

[โ€“] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Boeing, Caterpillar, Deere, agriculture, energy, and weapons. Anything "creative" is avoiding a direct response.