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Buy #European is trending. What are you favorite European brands? 
In our latest guide, we take a look at the best European products you can use 
https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products
Yes, "Buy #European" is trending but it also sucks. A lot.
Hear me out: I understand and also feel the urge for tech #independence, particularly from the US, right now.
But just because something is European doesn't make it good or ethical.
@Tutanota People shouldn't trust you because you're "from Europe" or German or whatever. But because you have an #ethical business model, employ good people, care about your users, respect #humanrights and build free and #opensource software.
@Tutanota As long as we talk about tech independence or digital #sovereignty primarily in terms of geography and jurisdiction, we will lose as users and as people with rights:
1. Because this narrative can easily be co-opted by antidemocratic, nationalistic forces.
2. It takes away attention from what actually provides us with independence: software #freedom, #interoperability, a power shift away from #bigtech to small, decentralised, ethical tech.
3. It gives praise to entities...
3. It gives praise to entities that don't deserve it just because they are "European". Point in case: the certainly well-intentioned @goeuropean project, which recommends (among many very ethical companies) some really terrible "European alternatives", e.g.:
* #Volkswagen, #Audi, that built cheat software into their cars to make them look cleaner
* #Inditex, #Zalando, some of the worst #fastfashion polluters
* #RedBull, the drinks company owned by an Austrian far-right #billionaire
@ilumium @goeuropean You are right, not everything from Europe is good. Thanks for the insight, that's very helpful!
@ilumium @Tutanota @goeuropean
You are right! That's why I use reference sites like switching.software for more ethical software solutions
