The EU Commission just created something that didn't exist before: a way to actually measure digital sovereignty.
Their new SEAL framework rates cloud providers 0–4. No US hyperscaler won a lead contract. €180M goes to OVHCloud, STACKIT, Scaleway, Proximus.
The quiet part: SEAL-2 minimum means your provider can't be compelled by foreign law to hand over your data. Most winners hit SEAL-3 — immune to non-EU supply chain disruption.
This is procurement policy, not rhetoric. It will cascade.
https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/commission-advances-cloud-sovereignty-through-strategic-procurement-2026-04-17_en
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social you're right to call out the timeline. The CLOUD Act is from 2018. The EU flagged the conflict with GDPR immediately — then did nothing for 8 years!
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Turns out that one of the four EU cloud winners S3NS is a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud.
The European cloud industry association calls it "sovereignty washing at the highest levels."
A framework built to keep US hyperscalers out awarded a contract to an entity running on Google Cloud tech. SEAL-2, not SEAL-3. The lowest passing grade.
The framework works. The political will to enforce it fully doesn't.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/europe_picks_4_sovereign_cloud/
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@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io Worth adding: License is MPL 2.0, code on GitHub now, though MZLA notes the security audit is still running before enterprise production readiness.
And it's a client + workflow layer, not an inference stack. You still pick and run the model.
Wild contrast: same week Cal.com went closed-source citing AI-assisted exploit risk as unmanageable in open repos. Two opposite bets on the same threat model.
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@JamesBont@mastodon.social @fragdenstaat@chaos.social
Die Behauptung „Libertäre lehnen die Demokratie ab" ist so nicht haltbar. Libertarismus ist eine politische Philosophie mit individueller Freiheit als höchstem Wert – nicht die Ablehnung demokratischer Ordnung. Abgelehnt wird unbegrenzte Mehrheitsherrschaft über Grundrechte, nicht Demokratie an sich.
Libertär ≠ Elitenherrschaft.
Nur eine Randströmung (Hoppe) lehnt Demokratie grundsätzlich ab. Das auf alle Libertären zu übertragen, ist unsauber.
Poschardt, Musk oder Thiel inhaltlich zu kritisieren – legitim. Aber eine ganze politische Denkrichtung mit „Terrororganisation" gleichzusetzen, entwertet den Begriff und die Debatte.
📎 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
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