Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just “mirroring” US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?

I was mainly mentioning servers outside US in the context of me blocking access to/from US personally. If US blocked it all everywhere, that woudn’t be possible. You’d at best have the data up to that point in time, until the block, but no further, unless the companies update their servers physically, with, like, USBs, CDs, Floppy Disks.

As for already connecting to data centers nearby, some of my top US connections, according to NextDNS, are, ironically, from Spotify, which, afaik, is European.

Few hours is a short time Yeah, but remember this also affects everyday people. I was mainly thinking of them, I guess. Akin to a nation-wide power outage. You see just how much you depend on it, and what it’d be like without it. It may already be so ingrained in one’s everyday life. To realise to what extent, can be eye-opening. Most people probably wouldn’t expect, and could be surprised, by stuff mentioned, such as GPS and payments, not working. Or just something that, in the background, relies on a big US company, like Amazon servers or something

pfsense Will look into that. And also look for the keywords, see what else I can find. Let’s see if I go through with such experiment

Well, worse than it seems, then.

I’d be willing to experiment, try and block US connections to and from my computer, but I could probably deal with it, seeing as I don’t use as much US stuff as the average person. Companies also probably have servers in other places, meaning perhaps they’d connect through elsewhere, and, in such a test scenario, me having control, I could allow the connections whenever I want or need.

To have everyone lose internet connection to/from US, would be real bad, it seems. Worse than I thought (though granted, I did not think much, clearly). Though if it were for a few hours, maybe let people see the consequences of their dependence, and what life would be like without these services. Guve 'em a taste.

All the more reason to not rely solely on the US and maybe adopt / help fund alternatives.

On another topic, if anyone knows how to block connections based on location, feel free to enlighten me. I’d actually enjoy trying out the aforementioned experiment, but NextDNS doesn’t have such feature

What does this mean, exactly? Sounds like “Trump could end Europe’s internet access”, but I’m sure wise Lemmy experts could chime in to clarify this means “Trump could disconnect Europe from the US, internet-wise”, which tbh don’t sound that bad. Sure hoping it’s the latter