Yes, Europe needs a digital independence movement, but how about instead of pinning those hopes on a bunch of rebels with a shoestring budget, Europeans ask their elected officials to do what they've been elected to do: Govern.
It should be a continental embarrassment that Europe has simply let its modes of communication, collaboration, distribution, and digital welfare get captured by a gang of American big tech companies. The best time to fix that was 20 years ago, next best time is today.
Europe has been leading the charge on privacy with the GDPR, but ultimately, those teeth have little bite, if you don't have a sovereign software and services industry that you can hold directly, democratically accountable.
If software is eating the world, and you do not have any noteworthy software industry, the world is going to eat you. Is Europe really going to sit idly by while they're getting eaten by American tech monopolists?
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