# Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk

DevFeed: [Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/communications-without-musk-and-trump-cloud-kootwijk-36300.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/communicating-without-musk-and-trump-cloud-kootwijk/>)

Published: 2025-02-02T14:07:10Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [communications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/communications.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [autonomy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomy.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [communications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/communications.md>)

## AI overview

The article contrasts the Netherlands' historical effort to build independent radio communications through Radio Kootwijk with the country's current reliance on American servers for communication and file processing. It presents this as a renewed dependency concern in 2025.

## Source excerpt

In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 ('Over and out: 75 years of radio communications'), we read: 1916: As a result of British cable censorship, free communication between the Dutch government and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies was no longer feasible. (Dutch version of this post is here) The Netherlands was dependent on foreign countries for communication, which had already caused problems earlier: