By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026Who can compete with companies that use Irish domicile to evade taxation and US domicile to evade privacy law? There's a joke from eastern Canada I think of often in situations like this. Its punchline goes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." 11/ 2273
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026But here we are. And speaking of Canada, while it has many problems, it is not (as of time of writing) the USA, but it *is* connected to the USA via the internet. 12/ 1182
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026Which means that Americans could - hypothetically - source their computing infrastructure from suppliers that were based in Canada, and who strictly ensured that they had no dependency on US services and scrupulously avoided a US "enforcement nexus": pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/t... 13/pluralistic.netThey’re still trying to ban cryptography – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2151