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Still, the US has been overreaching when it comes to jurisdiction for decades already. It's just a risk to rely on American corporations for anything mission critical, especially if you want to run something truly global (like having maps for Iranian/Cuban users or whatever it is the US took issue with this time).
Yeah. There's really no need to blame Microsoft at this point - even if they did everything right, there would still be good reason to avoid them.
We call that digital colonialism