If you are crowing about FB possibly shutting down in the EU while criticizing Trump on TikTok, you aren’t really paying attention.

Both the WH and ECJ are myopically inventing rules around data transfer without understanding the infrastructure or considering the consequences.

The best part of this whole thing is all the Europeans using US platforms, like Twitter, to transfer data out of the EU and inform their global audience that they never want their data to leave the EU.

This is one of those super complicated topics that separate out those who savor the sick dunks from those actually worried about a safe, global, trustworthy internet.

Before you clog my mentions with the lazy “FB being shut down is good” response, just know that FB happens to be the company named in the suit but the ECJ ruling affects every organization operating in the US and EU, big and small. The case is about US law, not FB’s practices.

Writing more about this, but to me the US-EU spat demonstrates the narcissism of small differences compared to the very different theory of internet governance of the CCP/PRC.

The need for such a US-EU deal, based upon shared values, is one of the many reasons this TikTok fiasco is going to resonate for years.