A yank without a yank
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Unequivocally yes, they can do that.
It would be an extreme measure, but I have been warning people and emailling my MP/MPP about this issue.
All it would take for our phones to stop working is Apple and Google invalidating one security certificate. They could release backdroored versions of our phone operating systems (I'm sure somebody would be checking the OS checksums somewhere).
US cloud companies being forced to stop allowing canadian credit cards alone would kill most canadian tech.
Google runs their own cloud hosting so I think they would fight that as it would really hurt their business, so I hope trump does try and piss off more people in power.
And when has Trump cared about these things?
As long as the US congress and senate let him rule as king, he's king, and he'll just claim any bad press is Google's unfair retribution.
Well he has backed down and some stuff recently because I'm assuming he knows he needs the tech bros to stay in power. They let him control the narrative. If he alienated them, that would be alienating his main ally in his re election campaign.
Frankly I would love it if something would hurt the credit card industry. The fact that a transactional service charges a % of the transaction itself is insane.