Erklärbär<p>The problem with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unplugtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unplugtrump</span></a> is, it is impossible to fully live without. A lot of websites are hosted by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloudflare</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>azure</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCP</span></a>. <br>I can buy from somewhere else, I can use another email service (but is this hosted on an European server?), but just surfing the internet, even only German sites, is mostly using big tech. Daimler, Bahn, Allianz and many others have migrated their IT to one of the top three cloud providers.<br>My uni forces me to use zoom or teams</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/blocking-the-tech-giants.html</span></a></p>