But AI has *nothing to do* with digital sovereignty. It is *not* load-bearing. All it takes to understand this is a little thought-experiment. Imagine that we removed all the chatbots from Canada, or the UK, or the EU, or the USA. What would fall down? Nothing important.

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Say what you will about this method, but it is decisive: if you remove a vertical member and nothing falls down, you can be pretty sure that wasn't a load-bearing member. (This is a metaphor about AI.)

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It’s because it’s so vicious, idiotic and illogical that we’ve wound up with e.g. the spouse of a national security advisor being investigated for a potential terrorism offence, in a tweet. Because the entire point of the exercise is: fuck you, we’re in charge, we decide.

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It is IMO under the umbrella of the general crackdown on the left and anything coded as left wing. A roaring wave of repression that has barely any public buy-in, it’s just our repellent political/media class enforcing its will year on year, shouting down any objections.

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It’s just a display of force. Fuck you: we are in charge and we decide. Don’t like it? Fuck you again. And there’s no major dissent about it because the whole project sprang from the press themselves. This is their riot, so of course they approve and want more. Much more, in fact.

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