Rep. Angie Craig demolishes Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins: "Joe Biden is no longer the president. Mr. Trump is. Your party controls Congress. You own these numbers at this point. I'm sick of hearing you blame an administration from a year and half ago. You own every single bit of this."
In the US, government protect their Big Tech bubble. In the Netherlands, we protect our own citizens.
That’s why DigiD stays Dutch. And forbid the US to collect sensitive data through the Cloud Act.
Simple as that. 🇳🇱
The Netherlands Just Told America to Get Its Greasy McDonald’s Fingers Off Their Data
The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from buying Solvinity, the cloud provider behind DigiD, the system every Dutch citizen uses to access their taxes, medical records and pension information. Washington responded with a formal statement expressing “disappointment.”
The Dutch public responded rather differently.
“You have been spitting in our faces for 1.5 years. Did you think that came without consequences?”
“Fuck off yanks.”
“Get lost.”
“Cry all you want.” And, in what may be the most perfectly constructed sentence in the history of transatlantic diplomacy:
“We don’t want your greasy McDonald’s fingers on our data.”
These are not the words of people who feel they have been heard.
The U.S. Embassy invoked “shared prosperity,” “mutual reliance,” and “co-creation.” The Dutch, a nation historically not known for mincing words, heard all of that and collectively said: mate, you threatened to invade Greenland. You pulled troops. You voted with Russia at the UN. You tried to meddle in our elections. You slapped us with tariffs while calling us partners. At what point exactly were we supposed to keep nodding along?
One commenter summed up the root cause with surgical precision: “The reason is one orange clown you voted into office.”
And here is the thing. This is not just a Dutch problem. Canada is buying Swedish fighter jets. Europe is building its own defence industry at speed. Country after country is quietly but very deliberately reducing its exposure to American infrastructure, American platforms and American goodwill, because American goodwill has turned out to be a subscription service that cancels without notice.
The Embassy called it disappointing.