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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.AI Verified source (Apr 13, 2026)
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AI Verified
The provided The Register page does contain the exact quoted wording and attributes it to Margrethe Vestager; at line 110 it says she “told The Times” and then prints the quote verbatim. The page is published on 2026-04-13, so the stored author, date, quote text, and provided source URL are consistent with the cited page. ([theregister.com](https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/04/13/digital-sovereignty-isnt-just-a-buzzword-its-the-future/5227369))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
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The supplied URL does contain a very close attributed quote from Margrethe Vestager, but The Register’s text is not an exact match: it reads, “then it can happen again... We are so dependent ...” with an ellipsis after “again,” not the continuous sentence given here. Because I could not confirm the provided wording as strictly verbatim from a reliable source, I would not verify this exact quote as quoted. ([theregister.com](https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/digital_sovereignty/?td=keepreading))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
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
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Margrethe Vestager