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Comment by Margrethe Vestager
Former EU Commission executive vice-president for Competition; AI governance advocate
If it can happen once that a judge cannot use their email or does not have payment options, then it can happen again. We are so dependent on Chinese and US technology for that infrastructure. It's a dependency, and it can be weaponized against us.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Checked author attribution, year, relevance, vote alignment, and source. The Register source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from that exact article (April 13, 2026): Vestager said "If it can happen once that a judge cannot use their email or does not have payment options, then it can happen again... We are so dependent on Chinese and US technology for that infrastructure. It's a dependency, and it can be weaponized against us." Attribution to Margrethe Vestager (former EU Commission EVP) is correct; year 2026 is current and relevant. Vote "for" the statement "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers" aligns with her warning about weaponizable dependency on US/Chinese tech and call for digital sovereignty. Source is the primary article carrying the quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 16d ago
replying to Margrethe Vestager