The US just sanctioned the entire International Criminal Court. Banks froze accounts, US tech vendors cut off licenses and updates, and YouTube pulled 700+ videos of possible war crime evidence. ⚖️
If one executive order can switch off a court, your family photos aren't safe on American clouds either. 🇪🇺
🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/10/icc-sanctions-digital-sovereignty/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelunion/117412000263558162
@pixelunion I'd go so far as to add: if you are not American, do not put anything on the cloud you don't want their gov to have access to. Bush passed a law after 9/11 that makes it easy and legal for their gov to just request these from the cloud provider and that provider will hand it over.
Americans can fight this, it's their gov and it's not supposed to spy on them; non Americans, not so much.
Side note:
It is imperative that every country in the world wean itself from American owned, and American hosted tech.
@rightsprung @pixelunion Yup.
@CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion add to that #Finance, because #CloudAct is just one part if it.
@Netzblockierer @CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion
Shocking. And deeply disgusting. I once more ask for an European Credit card and an European Amazon.
Oct 11, 2026, 10:54 AM@edithmair1 Unfortunately the vulnerabilities that allowed this to become a problem in the first place will almost certainly remain even with those.
Consider the viability of a European credit card which cannot be used with any companies with a presence in the United States. So while it would make things better than they are, and is worth pursuing for that even if it's not a perfect solution, even a fully European card issuer would still almost certainly need to adhere to US regulations to some degree, and that includes US entity sanctions.
As for a European Amazon, I really don't think we need a huge, too-big-to-fail company copying a US behemoth. What we need is companies providing standardised services that can realistically be implemented in the same way by anyone without reliance on any one party, so that we don't end up with a hard dependency on just some other company instead. That would not be learning our lesson.
To help filters: USpol adjacent, EUpol adjacent.
@meles @edithmair1 @CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion also you don't want a "European Credit Card" or even "European Amazon" as in verbatim copying the model, but something better…
@meles @edithmair1 @CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion If I as @ecb had to design and standardize such a System, I'd basically copy #Monero but merely change the Block Frequency to 1 second (so that worst-case it only takes 3 seconds to get a transaction fully confirmed.) and make it a #Prepaid-#NFC wallet that can be reload manually or automatically (with like a default limit of €100/day or €25 per transactions without PIN and €1000/day or €250 per transaction in total) since most people will do anything higher cash or #SEPA wire transfer anyway and thus make it unattractive for #MoneyLaundering…
But so far, #wero is #ControlledOpposition!
@edithmair1 They won't save you, the eu is like really shitty. You'll be worse off imo. Decentralization is magic, make something decentrilized, use gnunet or i2p to do it, etc @Netzblockierer @CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion
@sackofbones @edithmair1 @CStamp @rightsprung @pixelunion I use @torproject / #Tor for all comms - never "Surface Web" without it!
https://tech.lgbt/@Netzblockierer/117422431122176910
https://tech.lgbt/@Netzblockierer/117422476573426281
I can't wait to see this motherfucking moron in front of this exact same criminal court.
@CStamp @pixelunion
I've switched to LibreOffice and pCloud to replace MS Office and OneDrive.
Banking is an issue though, I'm currently dependent on Visa and Mastercard.
@CStamp @pixelunion People forget they went in and spliced the telecoms.
Moreover, since Trump is an oil shill for the most corrupt industry on earth, Trump can grant those same surveillance capabilities to anyone he chooses.
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/
Sharing with people like Putin & #PrinceBonesaw.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/02/meta-cloud-computing-detour-not-strategy-for-attention/
Big Oil prepares for world war
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/politics/trump-saudi-arabia-nuclear-deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/politics/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal-congress-review.html
@pixelunion apparently my landline is now digital and on the cloud. Does that mean America controls the landlines as well?
@pixelunion - US (particularly Repugnicant) Administrations have long had an issue with ICC.
It’s why so few senior management ever leave the US once their diplomatic security is gone. They - rightfully - have a fear of being charged for their behaviour.
This Administration particularly worse than many.
@pixelunion @rickf I see Google’s “Be EVIL” Mission Statement is working out well for them.
@pixelunion I was confused by the wording "just" sanctioned the entire ICC court when executive order 14203 was signed 18 months ago on Feb 6, 2025. I guess what's changed is that they waited until this week to put it in force?
https://aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-imposes-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-threatens-to-dismantle-it/4083749
Oct 10, 2026, 6:47 AMYour family and friends are not safe, nevermind the pictures.
@pixelunion tbh I prefer local storage for my pictures
@pixelunion
The USA is now the enemy of the entire world
Oct 10, 2026, 7:45 AM
@ww @pixelunion Your assertion that the EU was modeled after and architected by the US is entirely baseless. Do some reading about the history of the EU FGS.
Oct 10, 2026, 10:35 AM@ww @pixelunion muted for imbecility
@pixelunion do you have another way to contact you for support, rather than just email or in public like this? I don't know what you prefer, I can delete this message after I get a reply. Thanks 👍
@pixelunion problem is x86 and probably arm thesedays is also US controlled
@pixelunion This is an outrage! They will do this to UN, too - just wait and see. We desparately need independence in all financial sections as well as IT globally from USA.
@pixelunion Look at the pressure USA is already pushing on UN. Just an example: Women's rights in March this year. The USA wanted to prevent the text for the UN declaration.
Oct 11, 2026, 5:13 PMWould such a move not be considered "contempt of court" or "obstruction of justice" in the US?
@pixelunion Bank accounts froze? I would hope they have an account directly with the Central Bank of the Netherlands ...
And what does the EU say? 🥴