alt Hacker NewsHopefully not. This hate towards good technology and innovation because you don’t like the current president is ridiculous. He’ll be gone in two years or so and then we’ll get back to normal.
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I heard this one a lot 6+ years ago
> This hate towards good technology and innovation
Mine is to a collective people that vote in these people. I get that people can change, grow, evolve etc but I didnt trust a german for 60 years, I wont trust an american for at least a generation.
It isn't just Trump. The CLOUD Act basically gives Washington the power and ability to turn off any server operated by any US company at will/whim.
The Wikipedia page only talks about stored data on (optionally foreign) servers without any sort of regard for the laws of the country where that server is located. It ignores the part of the statute where the feds can basically "turn off" that server. And that is the part that the EU is panicking over.
Has nothing to do with Trump. Trump just made the need more obvious but these talks are not new.
I don't thing things are going back to the previous state of affairs after this.
As things are moving, there's currently no garantee that Trump won't hold his promise US citizen will never have to vote again.
And even if the bipartisan system make a small turn over, the issue is systemic.
Wishful thinking at the early days of any autocratic government, until reality kicks in elections are only a ritual to pretend otherwise.