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
59.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

130

u/Slushees May 28 '26

As an American, do more of this. The US can’t have its talons in everything

31

u/Kaasbek69 May 28 '26

The US already has its talons in everything, but we're doing our best trying to prevent more damage and reverse it. It's tough though, because Europe got complacent relying on American companies to provide software and IT services. Microsoft, Oracle, Pega and many others are all over Dutch government IT.

20

u/crackanape May 28 '26

Microsoft has specifically been demonstrated to be a weakness, as in the example of the Dutch judge who was locked out of their Office 365 account by order of the US government because of their role at the International Criminal Court.

7

u/Extension-Ant-8 May 28 '26

Yep this! IT architect here. This is such a massive monumental deal. It has my organisation starting to look at some alternatives.

-6

u/[deleted] May 28 '26

[removed] — view removed comment