Some of Amazons software engineers and IT techs may be privy to proprietary Amazon corporate information. Whether they realize it or not. Amazon has an interest it how and when this information will be made public. And who will speak for their interests.

Many companies have policies regarding the release of their private information to the public.

I got that, after perusing TFS. But it's still a good reason to drop the dual usage. It's use in confusing situations should be sanctioned.

I think you and I are in agreement.
In general I would assert that government regulation is absolutely the wrong solution.
This appears be no exception to that rule and driven by ulterior motives.
I am sure their is some incompetence on the law makers side, they do not understand how cloud computing works; but even if they did all they want is more power anyway.

According to https://4dayweek.io/countries it looks like the average work week is under 40 hours for most European countries.

Now sure you can stretch 32.5 hours out over 5 days working 6.5 hours a day, but I am assuming a minimum of 8 hour work days; so less than 40 hours is not filling 5 days.

I think Google search has a boolean to exclude truths that run counter to your world view.

"Wisdom alone comes through suffering." -- Aeschylus

My guess is that the US companies have data centers in Europe so an outage in the US would not affect Europe.

However I do not think that negates your point of being dependent on a foreign company or failing to have redundancy.
Your example of redundant Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is a great example of redundancy benefiting everyone; I love having a GNSS chip that supports all three chips even if I am in the US.

Although cloud providers have always felt like they had pretty good interoperability and data portability to me; I just move my docker contain from AWS to Azure to Google Cloud to OVH; or have one on each cloud ready to go and one in my garage and my mom's basement just in case?

The issue is the services mentioned are centralized. My video streaming should be Bittorrent not Amazon or Netflix, my game server anyone can host not on Epic servers, and my communication pier-to-pier not all connected by a central host like Signal. Not sure why Docker made that list, just make a mirror of their repos and binaries? Really the list of services in the summary/article are kind of silly, most are not critical and the providers have a great incentive to make sure they are provided and redundant so not to lose customers.

Europe offers a progressive approach to work-life balance through widespread four-day work week initiatives and strict labor laws that make firing employees significantly harder than in the US. These rights prioritize job security and personal well-being over corporate flexibility. Who would have thought it had a side effect of being less productive?

The door of some church in Wittenburg doesn't curate your theses. Nor does it algorithmically select which ones to offer you.

These activities alone should disqualify a site from Section 230 protections.

Friend of mine had a son who started nagging for stuff. She asked for advice. I suggested leaving a couple of brochures for military acadamies lying around. Worked like a charm.

Last one to be eaten wins! What do they win? The chance to starve to death instead of being butchered for Haitian Steaks!

Your understanding of reality is...unique.

Meta is just a front for NABMLA.

Don't blame me - I was thrusting as hard as I could in its direction.

I'm hoping that some of these unwashed masses voting for this thing are employees of Google, Apple, etc. And I want to be a fly on the wall when the boss says, "Pack up your stuff. The company is moving to Wyoming."

I see you seem to have learned your economics watching Saturday morning cartoons. The wealth isn't being hoarded. It isn't even sitting around in the form of money. What will be fleeing the state is capital to support existing businesses and create new ones. Which means jobs. And future tax revenue. The state is going to lose far more in recurring revenue than it will ever see from their one time tax.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more development to get desktop applications, such as Adobe's, pushed to a client/server model. That would facilitate collaborative work in real-time. They could take all of the functions of each application, put them behind REST endpoints, and broadcast the results to all clients that currently have that "file" open. And since the "file" is just a series of REST calls, you could log them and their parameters and effectively have infinite undo history.

In Adobe's case they've already moved over to a cloud-only, so at least users would get extra functionality for that business model. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying the implementation process, but it would be an interesting concept that seems almost inevitable given where things are going.