Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davemosk</span></a></span> <em>EXACTLY THAT!</em></p><p>And for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CloudAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudAct</span></a> to apply, only one of these things need to be true:</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Hoster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hoster</span></a> is owned in part if full by a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/citizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizen</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>company</span></a>.</li><li>Hoster has a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/subsidiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subsidiary</span></a> in the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>.</li><li>Hoster is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> inside the USA.</li><li>Hoster offers services from within the US.</li><li>Hoster's (sole) upstream is from the US or has any of these conditions applying to them either.</li></ul><p>And that doesn'r even cover the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/blackmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackmail</span></a> the USA leverage against <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/organizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organizations</span></a> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICC</span></a>) and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/individuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>individuals</span></a> they <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPZj6cL2go0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>dislike</em>.</a></p><ul><li>And now look at the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Quadropol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quadropol</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PaymentProcessors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaymentProcessors</span></a> (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AMEX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AMEX</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VISA</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MasterCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MasterCard</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PayPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PayPal</span></a>) and realize that there is no global competition to them (unless we accept <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Monero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monero</span></a> and consider the pathetic joke that is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/wero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wero</span></a> as competitior despite having even less acceptance than Monero!)…</li></ul>