You are right - now greedy corporations decide who is an "acceptable" human and who is perma-banned.

Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil. And other governments also need the US government responsible here, since they allow this to happen.

In objective terms this can be called a fascist system.

> A temporary workaround like using alternatives like GrapheneOS

The issue still is that so many services and functionalities are tied into private companies. States simply need to wake up now.

> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil.

I’m not even being cynical — it would probably just increase the amount of government contract cash awarded to them. Control makes governing a lot easier, control is what tech companies have, and to varying degrees, it’s for sale.

As proven by history, it's convenient to have a big well-known external entity to blame as a source of any trouble, but in reality it's orders of magnitude easier to be a digital dissident in the US compared to the EU. And European Commission + European national governments are exactly the ones you should blame first. They are openly proud of how it works, they call it successful digitalization for a positive spin.

> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil

Governments are made up of people. People who have at best median level understanding of the things they are ruling about but great self-interest in following the biggest purse to which they can attach themselves.