alt Hacker NewsNot really. I mean Trump has amped the rhetoric, but there have been no new laws passed.
The privacy threats were always there.
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bootsmann • yesterday at 2:14 PM
Not everything makes US news but the decision by Microsoft to shut down ICC accounts after a Trump EO on sanctions really spooked a lot of EU governments.
Law is irrelevant under the power of the gun; it was the threat to invade Greenland and the threat to leave NATO which have triggered this.
(people keep saying things like "only Congress has the power to declare war"; that may be technically true, but a war declaration is a piece of paper, and practically the authorization of force is at the personal disposition of the President)