With Trump's actions on TikTok, it really looks to me like a nationalist trade war involving everyone is on the horizon. Cyberspace, once seen as free and independent of geography and nation states, by people like Jerry Perry Barlow, is now being carved up and balkanized. Much different than the dreams we had in the 80s.
Just take the Giphy example. Most likely an API call to search for emoji. There are various ways to protect this (e.g. mixnets), but the whole point of the internet was effortless peer-to-peer transmission, permission less innovation, which in the 00s meant people collaborating and piecing together highly functional services by gluing together many service providers.
Now something as simple as adding an Emoji button to your keyboard can get you sanctioned in different jurisdictions. And the cost of overcoming this is too high for smaller players.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft and Google have the money to adapt. If they need to set up separate European operations and legal entities with "air-gapped"/"firewalled" data centers with respect to the US, they have the power to work around this, not many others do.
This just looks like to me like further entrenching their power. When GDPR first arrived, a lot of HN posts were speculating "this is the end of FAANG", and of course, mostly what happened was everyone got spammed with cookie popups, some small fines were paid, and business got more expensive for the mid-sizedfirms.
Just take the Giphy example. Most likely an API call to search for emoji. There are various ways to protect this (e.g. mixnets), but the whole point of the internet was effortless peer-to-peer transmission, permission less innovation, which in the 00s meant people collaborating and piecing together highly functional services by gluing together many service providers.
Now something as simple as adding an Emoji button to your keyboard can get you sanctioned in different jurisdictions. And the cost of overcoming this is too high for smaller players.
AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft and Google have the money to adapt. If they need to set up separate European operations and legal entities with "air-gapped"/"firewalled" data centers with respect to the US, they have the power to work around this, not many others do.
This just looks like to me like further entrenching their power. When GDPR first arrived, a lot of HN posts were speculating "this is the end of FAANG", and of course, mostly what happened was everyone got spammed with cookie popups, some small fines were paid, and business got more expensive for the mid-sizedfirms.