On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:36:05AM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:46:22 +0100
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > And do you trust the S.S.E.U.[*] juridictions? And do you trust that
> > any S.S.E.U. protection will hold against any U.S.A. threat?
> > Isn't the safer option to buy a .ch domain? simply because in
> > Switzerland, politicians have few powers and the people still decide
> > to some extent. The best protection is democracy and there are
> > very few nowadays on Earth, and none in the U.S.A. or in the S.S.E.U.
>
> Naive democracy is what enables uneducated voters to elect extreme
> right- or left-wing parties, which can quickly turn into dictatorships.
> The right to vote should be granted as a merit-based privilege rather
> than an automatic entitlement. But I digress...
>
??? France is under dictatorship, with an executive that is supported
by less than 10% of the people and that is supported by a minority of
self-called "elite". This self-called "elite" has made only disastrous
mistakes not to speak about volontary treasons---this self-called
"elite" makes a budget that is "5% in deficit from GDP" this meaning
that the budget is 50%! in deficit: spends _twice_ its revenues; no
"uneducated" people will ever do such a thing! The "uneducated" are
not responsible for that, these "uneducated" people having constantly
said: NO! to what had been imposed. So dictatorship as a consequence
of "democracy" from a mass of uneducated people is a fallacy (even the
historical example of Germany disproves it).
> To answer your question, each country has its own laws and regulations?
> some good, some bad. If you deploy your services across the US, UK, and
> EU, this can help reduce disruptions. And yes at this time, I trust the
> UK and EU more than the U.S.
>
But the E.U. legislation is, eventually, the U.S. one. Would you buy a
domain in .gl (Greenland) and hope being protected by the "mighty"
E.U. against any U.S. mischief?
I'm too concerned about the "technical" problem---trying to have
something purely "technical" shielded from any political interference.
Unfortunately, because the problem is a political one, there is no
technical solution---except to try, as it seems you want to, to not
put all the eggs in the same basket; but the problem is precisely
that eventually everything is in the same basket despite appearances...
They are all the heads of the Lernaean Hydra: different (empty) heads of
the very same monster.
For KerGIS, I have a .com and a .fr. So it costs more, but I'm only
slightly reassured---if the .com was being banned, people will not
think of switching to .fr, and the .fr could be banned from U.S.
controlled DNS servers. On the other hand, if there was a global war,
the networks would be physically severed, the nodes being destroyed.
So in fact, despite all, I have a .fr too simply because I'm physically
in France.
Alltogether, if you are in UK, take too an address in .gb, not to be
protected from anything, but simply, despite "cloud" and "virtuality",
to have a domain matching where you physically are...
I don't think there is any technical silver bullet.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
http://kertex.kergis.com/
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