German citizen here. I find this attitude horrible and threatening. You are working on sacrificing yet another part of our digital sovereignty to a US company. There are trillions of better things to do with your life.

European Citizen here, and indeed lots of people in IT turn a blind eye onto the collateral damage their work may create.

I know someone who happily codes "verifiable credentials" in Elixir, disregarding all externalities.

What's wrong with verifiable credentials? It's an important thing to have it seems? Your passport or a bank card are verifiable credentials, or at least are designed to be.

It's an EU thing, overcomplicated an not sovereign:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EB...

Oh dear, web 3.0, blockchain. Do we get our sovereign monkey NFT too?

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are W3C standards and do not involve blockchains. Nor does Web 3.0.

Tell this your parlamenentarian.