I can see where having essential Internet services be located outside of the United States would be an asset. Things like email servers, search engines, private communicators, social networks, storage, web hosting all fall into this. I never thought I would have to say that.
@bradenslen Don’t know if this is connected, but every country I’ve visited in the last few years has had cheap, reliable & fast internet. Even on freaking islands in the middle of the ocean.
@rnovotney.bsky.social I was thinking more in a not get spied upon, monitored, and arrested for political speech sort of way.
But you are right, many countries seem to have many different ISP’s for internet connection either wired or cell. Whereas once you get away from major highways and cities in the US connection gets dodgy.
To be fair:
I have heard a lot of complaints from UK friends about their wired, household ISP’s.
We do have a lot of long distances here in the US.
@pratik I don’t have real good answers. My impulse would be to find privacy based services in the EU, UK, Australia and NZ depending. The answer might be different for each service.
We are not going to keep national intelligence services from our data if they really want it, so I’m not talking about that.
@pratik If you want privacy against governments, don’t go online. You know that. Otherwise you do the best you can with the tools you have available. You can make it harder for casual snoops, crooks, corporations and enemies with a political agenda that oppose you to gain access to your data.