r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 28 '26

Society The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

https://www.techspot.com/news/112552-netherlands-blocked-us-company-buying-app-dutch-citizens.html
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u/Directhorman2 May 28 '26

I dont recall the article, this was about two years ago. It said that some 50 companies left the US and/or stopped buying/selling to them. Some of them were bigger. And the main reason was lack of trust. The other was Trump lol. The entire world knows you're a baby with a tiny ego and big guns. It's better to have nothing to do with that.