A sanctioned ICC judge lost access to Amazon, Apple ID, iCloud, PayPal, Google, even her Alexa stopped responding. 🚨
One executive order, and your entire digital life can vanish if it lives on US-controlled servers.
Move your data to European, open-source infrastructure.
Aug 19, 2026, 4:14 PM@pixelunion Difficulty is that we as individuals can only do so much. Still the majority of the people doesn't see the problem or at least the urgency but when we interact with our governments and companies in almost all instances we have no choice which infrastructure is used. Our payment options are limited (they're working on it but will it be soon enough?).
There are different mobile platforms but given that most apps only work with either android or iOS they are not that viable - politicians could change this but they won't.
I have completely overhauled my tech and digital service infrastructure over the course of a year, but it's 90 rather than 100%. In some cases there's no good alternative (youtube is another one) and in other cases it's not up to us.
It's really quite maddening, let alone a source of some daily stress for everyone paying attention.
@pixelunion If a country wants to be absolutely get charges put on them by the ICC, then that's how it would do this.
Seriously though, how is this not considered racketeering at this point? One corrupt government should never hold this much power over other contries' citizens!