A quiet but deeply unsettling moment just shook the foundations of international justice, proving why Europe needs digital sovereignty - and most Europeans not too interested in tech likely missed it: The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court based in The Hague and central to Europeโ€™s upholding of human rights, suddenly found that his email account was shut down. The service provider? Microsoft. The reason? Mr. Trump.....

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[โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I welcome my country's (USA) cutting off at the knees to provide greater diversity in tech allocation. It made sense to rely on corporations in the USA when our leadership wasn't outright hostile to the rest of the world, at least from the perspective of the people making such decisions. We have proven to be a rogue state. We can be trusted with nothing.

Isolate us and reduce the amount of harm we are capable of delivering. My sincerest apologies to the rest of the world for the shitty decisions of my fellow citizens.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago

    This reads like a long advertisement for Tuta.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago

    Trump is the best thing to ever happen to Europe in recent history

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago

    So Trump tries to hamper the ICC through infrastructure. Mess with the email, and everything stops, right? That's how he believes it works?

    Hey, Trump, you may not believe this, but the ICC have these things called "legally defined purpose" and "established procedures". I know you've recently proven that as far as the USA is concerned, those are just theoreticals that you think you can revoke at whim, but unfortunately for you, here in the democratic world they still mean something, as far as I know. No email outage will stop this show.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    The fucking site auto-translated without my asking , and provided no obvious way to show the original.

    I really, really fucking hate this.

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    [โ€“] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In February, Trump sanctioned International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister

    The chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has lost access to his email; his bank accounts were frozen.

    Well that's fucked up, not only does the US not adhere to the ICC's rulings, but now it's also actively sabotaging them.

    the ICC doesn't randomly emit arrest warrants, they're always based on proven facts and testimonies, so this is just the US trying to cover up for the genocide in Gaza.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago

    If you've been following what's been going on in the US, you might have noticed that a judge has been incarcerated there simply for not cooperating with immigration enforcement enthusiastically enough.

    Fucked up describes the situation pretty accurately, I'd say, ICC or not.

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