alt Hacker NewsI can't believe sibling commenters. As a citizen of country X, it should be easy to sympathize with the desire to only do business with other citizens of country X or businesses registered in country X. Why? Because if they wrong me in some way, then I can sue them in a court of law in country X.
All cross-border business is fundamentally import/export and comes with the same risk - that when I am wronged by someone in another country, I have no legal recourse. The exceptions to this rule (like airlines) are such enormous exceptions that there are literally international treaties (e.g. Montreal Convention) to enable it.
Nothing fundamentally US-centric about that point of view.
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This is a US website with a Let's Encrypt certificate.
Anyone who is not in the US saying, on here, "I do not need CAs that are not my national ones" would realize the problem before even posting.
And there is a simple solution: stay off the internet and keep yourself to your national network. There is nobody stopping people from that.
You can want a nationalist Internet trust model, and 2027 is an extremely good year to build it, because the major browsers are all malleable.
What you cannot reasonably expect is for the entire Internet to operate on a "these countries good, these countries bad" model, for many reasons, including that the citizens of your preferred countries are wildly outnumbered.