New article by Joachim Schöpfel and me: The politics of #openknowledge: production, certification, and control.
Our argument: the key issue is not ownership, but who can produce knowledge, certify it, use it, and make it count.
https://pulse49.com/2026/04/14/the-politics-of-open-knowledge-production-certification-and-control/
🏛 ✨ The @dpgalliance is excited to welcome UNESCO!
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance to advance open, inclusive, and resilient knowledge ecosystems.
Through its #OpenSolutions —OER, Open Access, Open Data, and FOSS— #UNESCO helps expand knowledge as a public good: : accessible, rights-based, and governed in the public interest.
🔗 Learn more in our latest blog: https://new.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/unesco-joins-the-digital-public-goods-alliance
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeverinGeo/116359552982446855
Very good comments about weeklyOSM news to follow on the @SeverinGeo profile.
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Dylan "I read the law and I'm here to implement it" M. Tylor gets up in the morning and decides to write age verification code that he himself calls "hilariously pointless and ineffective", within a week strikes 4 repos off his list, and i bet the Linux Kernel is going to be next (I'm joking... mostly)
It's worth noting that the first people who approved the PR on systemd repo are 2 big tech employees - Mircoslop and Redhat/IBM (why I'm i not surprised!!), someone then opened a revert PR, Lennart Poettering (systemd creator) closed it.. thus blocking the removal
And this is why you now have Liberated Systemd, a fork of systemd without Age verification.. which IS 'hilariously pointless and ineffective' at saving children
when engineers starts reading the law like a specification, this is what you get.. useful idiots.
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116307429187383416
I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
Honestly.. at first i was surprised (and disappointed) at some major Linux distributions not having a clear answer to age verification laws after weeks of their announcement, but then lots of them started discussing them. really! discussing them! what's there to be discussed?
"maybe we can implement age checks in a privacy respecting manner? 👉👈"
And it's just so happens this serves the corporation that you work for best interests! Big tech "Foss devs" have a clear conflict of interest here
#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec
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