Digital Cloud Balkanisation

[dewline]

Apparently, this is a thing to worry about. Especially with about a third of the planet trying to lurch back towards authoritarianism, fascism, "illiberal democracy", autocracy, etc. at whatever speed they can muster over the objections of the people they assert the right to master.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/17/1014967/balkanization-cloud-computing-bad-everyone/

To some extent, as users of Dreamwidth, we have to subscribe to this POV ourselves or lose some degree of contact with one another. And we definitely consider that international communication and community to be a public good.

How do we deal with this?

Comments

[frandroid]

I can't blame anyone for wanting their national data to be protected from the legal hands of foreign entities, especially as we know the U.S. and China have no qualms whatsoever in leveraging global jurisdiction when they can pull it off. (More rarely in China's case, but there are retaliatory measures, as we know.)