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What alternatives?
Oh, hey maybe if they ask nicely Russia will let them use VK.
Jokes aside though, the only realistic path Europe has here is to start massively funding open source platforms. I read there's a bit of that happening, but really it should be done on a far bigger scale. Stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, or even Odysee, can easily become as good as any commercial offering with even modest state backing. Meanwhile, stuff like NextCloud can completely replace Google services. LineageOS could be developed as a standard mobile operating system, and so on. It wouldn't even be that hard to do because a lot of these projects are already fairly mature and proven. Imagine if the EU spent a fraction of the money burned on Ukraine doing this stuff for the past three years.
No chance in hell with how EU is basically corpos in a trenchcoat and most of them are either US or walking in US leash.
Yeah, I can't see it happening either. It's just sad that it's right there and it would be one unambiguously good thing the EU could do.