From the article:

> Let that sink in. You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies. Not a single EU-based subprocessor in the chain.

Not sure LinkedIn is a European professional network.

I think the author was talking about their own professional network being based in Europe, as opposed by LinkedIn, the platform that they're using to contact said network.

Yeah, he might have wanted to use Xing. Of course, he'd be pretty lonely there.

Their use of LinkedIn is for local and semi-local professional networks. It's like if you use Nextdoor for your street.

And of course those Europeans use LinkedIn for the network effect (even though LinkedIn is just a pathetic sad dead mall now, so most are doing so for an illusion), because other prior waves of Europeans also used LinkedIn, and so on. Domestic or regional alternatives falter because everyone demands they be on the "one" site.

The centralization of tech, largely to the US for a variety of reasons, has been an enormous, colossal mistake.

It's at this point I have to laud what China did. They simply banned foreign options in many spaces and healthy domestic options sprouted up overnight. Many countries need to start doing this, especially given that US tech is effectively an arm of a very hostile government that is waging intense diplomatic and trade warfare worldwide, especially against allies.