Rootslav Nef
European CommissionYour data. Your feed. Your control.
The fediverse was built on communities, not corporations, deciding how they interact.
The Digital Services Act now brings that same accountability to the rest of the web.
Marko@EUCommission Hope you will do your very best not to weaken the DSA. ✅
Joan of Contention 😷@decorum @EUCommission Seconded. The digital regulation/legal landscape is undermined enough by the inaction of the authorities here in Ireland.
Hello @decorum!
We are proud of the DSA and the protections it offers our citizens. While we are planning a set of reforms to make our data rules easier to understand and use, our simplification efforts are explicitly stated not to change or undermine the main objectives of EU digital rules, such as protecting personal data and ensuring safe AI.
We are proud of the DSA and the protections it offers our citizens. While we are planning a set of reforms to make our data rules easier to understand and use, our simplification efforts are explicitly stated not to change or undermine the main objectives of EU digital rules, such as protecting personal data and ensuring safe AI.
Martin Vogel@EUCommission So, what exactly happened in August 2023? Tell me, please.
Victoria🏳️⚧️@mardor @EUCommission what happened in august 2023?
@mardor @EUCommission tbh im not really sure what to think of it. Whats the problem?
jorgehb@EUCommission Now end chat control.
Klaus FrankThe main issue I see with the Digital Service Act is that it is mainly a cashgrep for lawyers. I already see customers trying to rule lawyer it to the point where they don't need to change anything
(It's actually surprising how much energy they put into this. If they'd only invest a fraction of that energy in actually addressing the issues everyone would be better off, them included...)
Michael@EUCommission one of my favourite underrated features of mastodon is the user having filters to remove anything they don't want to see. The fact this is not normal on the web really highlights that ones viewing of a website or app is not for the users benefit
DJGummikuh@EUCommission is that the reason Mastodon had to register in the US as a non-profit because european/german law was so cumbersome that it was not worth the hassle?
ikuturso 🇪🇺@DJGummikuh @EUCommission what do you mean? it's not like they stopped being a German non-profit so they still have to deal with EU/German law.
@ikuturso @EUCommission actually they did https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mastodon-Laut-Finanzamt-nicht-mehr-gemeinnuetzig-9701352.html
this is not about being bound (or not) by german law, they obviously are in regard to german users, this is about having to pay taxes like a for-profit company without transparent rationale.
@DJGummikuh assuming that is outdated now since they still say they are a German non-profit as of 2026.
edit: correction, while the gGmbH that lost its non-profit status is still operating the current plan is to transition to a Belgian AISBL.
It was YOUR claim that the law is supposedly so cumbersome it isn't "worth the hassle" for them to deal with it. You now seem to have pivoted to something entirely different.
@ikuturso not really, no. They WERE a german non-profit 2021-2024, but the ministry of finance suddenly said no. They don't do that out of petty feelings but because they follow the laws, which historically are kinda obscure when it comes to non-profits. Until today I did not know that the US non-profit was created independently of the german one, I thought it was their "way out" of the quagmire that is german legislation.
@ikuturso what rubs me the wrong way is the fact that the european commission now is happy about Mastodon and calls it "european" while our legislative often causes a lot of suffering for startups and innovators to protect their vested interests (just see the german solar industry for example). Mastodon is a germany-founded project not BECAUSE of Europe but DESPITE.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESwell after the trump election mastodon pivoted right back to europe
however europe may suck in your estimation, it's doing better than the usa
it's all relative
as an american all i can do is envy you. that doesn't mean you shouldn't aim for better. aim for better, i feel you
@benroyce please, stay safe! I fear it is going to become a LOT worse for the US before it gets a chance of getting any better (from my point of view, at this stage the only way out would be all out civil war or break up of the union) but I still hope I'm wrong.
@benroyce in all fairness, with this completely polarized and commercialized version of democracy, voting cannot really change anything. While the republicans at this point clearly are fascists, the democrats also have severe internal problems and from what it looks severe corruption issues. Are they better than the reps for the country? Clearly. But again, that's a tremendously low bar, and "better" by far does not mean "good" 😕
agreed but better is still better
ideally we take over the democratic party and hollow it out. get 50 Mamdanis
Toni Aittoniemi@benroyce @DJGummikuh Europe does have a stronger history for standing up to people’s rights against corporations.
But USA and UK have pushed Neoliberalism hard on us. For 50 years. We are quite in the deep, and many countries could flip in the coming years.
IMO we are not cutting our dependencies to the US fast enough. Those trade deals and foreign investments is how they get US and Russian money to the far right here at home. 🤔
bboett@EUCommission then stop chat control!
Jaap Zeldenrust@EUCommission
Okay, now stop trying to read my private messages on e2ee channels.
Okay, now stop trying to read my private messages on e2ee channels.
Leave X - Protect Democracy@EUCommission Too much talking, not enough action. Politicians, leave X now.
Joachim Heistinger 🌶️@leavex
Erm...
"Hostname leavex.eu
Provider Fastly, Inc.
Continent North America
Country USA"
Very much EU, huh? 😏
Dmian 🇪🇺@carbon_compound @leavex @EUCommission @benroyce Ad-hominem. Unnecessary. A detail that derails the conversation. MEPs need to leave that platform now. Frankly, these “Gotcha!” replies come across as immature. It would be better if you had some kind of argument in favor or against. But no, just trying to gain some quick internet cred. Sad. A waist of time for everyone.
kuro 
@EUCommission good but stop chat control
leberschnitzel@EUCommission sure, with fines that aren't even felt by giant tech companies that make more *profit* in an hour?
Leave X (@[email protected])
#LeaveX #DSA #Democracy #Musk #HateSpeech #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereignty #diday #SocialMedia
Tumon@EUCommission wish ppl cared more...
Maija Koivula ⌘@EUCommission Stop Chat Control.
Aria <3 
@EUCommission If fediverse is so good why are you still on X
punIssuer@EUCommission so what's the deal with the new European W social platform? Why not use Mastodon that's already there and used?
Titia Schuurman@punissuer @EUCommission W is owned by a Swedish company, nothing to do with the EU as such.
the w platform is not a european govt initiative
what happened is the private entities and personalities behind it positioned it that way and people bought into their lies
sleazy
so don't worry about it, and don't believe the hype
WhatisgoingonStop chat control!
Stop dismantling digital rights!
Leave corporate media platforms!
Enea Lecas@EUCommission If you think that the Fediverse is so good, why aren't you taking more steps to embrace it?
McWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉@EUCommission Please take heart that the criticism here is meant well for the benefit of all of us and you’re doing a relatively fine job compared to all the other entities worldwide.
Please take action to stop Chat Control and protect our digital rights and that not of corporations. Take steps to leave corporate social media platforms in a concerted way. This to have a bigger impact spreading awareness to EU citizens to do the same and sending a strong signal that we do not accept platforms that spread disinformation, CSAM, discrimination, fascism, all that with or without coordination from foreign adversaries.
Please take action to stop Chat Control and protect our digital rights and that not of corporations. Take steps to leave corporate social media platforms in a concerted way. This to have a bigger impact spreading awareness to EU citizens to do the same and sending a strong signal that we do not accept platforms that spread disinformation, CSAM, discrimination, fascism, all that with or without coordination from foreign adversaries.
CEO Space X Musk
Verna@EUCommission
So you're gonna stop chat control?
So you're gonna stop chat control?
Francesca Bo.@EUCommission So you are totally stopping chat control and the Digital Omnibus, right?
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 AmbiyelpThen stop Chat Control now, privacy is an inalienable right.
#ChatControl #StopChatControl #EU #EuropeanUnion #Privacy #ClientSideScanning
Michael Richardson@ambiguous_yelp @EUCommission it really is weird the different, simultaneous efforts, which seem to be diametrically opposed.
Eggs now in different baskets.@mcr314 @ambiguous_yelp @EUCommission That means there IS hope.
That Chat Control will not go ahead.
That the Digital Omnibus will not drive roughshod of the rights that we currently have here in the EU. Rights that many of us are proud of.
@mcr314 it does give credence to the notion that it is out of ignorance, but im not so sure
🇪🇺🇩🇪Machina@EUCommission yes, that is good.
We would all, also appreciate it, if the EU Commission decides to protect our privacy as per EU Charter and moves against Chat Control.
Protecting children and privacy shouldn't happen at the expense of the other.
We can understand that article 52 states : “Subject to the principle of proportionality, limitations may be made only if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of
general interest recognised by the Union or the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others.”
Infringing on the rights of people to protect children may seem commendable (?) but the objectives of protecting the rights and freedoms of children are not met by these measures either.
Unfortunately, the rights of children are also at risk because age assurance measures are left up to third parties that misuse this data. It only takes a single misuse incident for such data to be online forever, both for children and adults, who then fall prey to AI exploitation.
Exploitation such as, undressing via dedicated AI models all the way to biometric surveillance. We can't allow people to live in fear of exploitation, as we have seen in America (ICE) where such data is indeed being misused to target individuals and often so by racial discrimination.
Oyu F'ka@EUCommission Bull shit. All you're saying is the EU is in control, not the people, at the end of the day. No better than the US government's attempt to control. Just another police state.
Harald Hannelius 
@EUCommission then on to stopping chat control, right? Right?
Koutsie 
@EUCommission y'all are gonna stop chat control right? Right?
Stefan 🧝@EUCommission Since the EC also wants "Big Tech" to scan all communications with AI and track users continuously under the supervision of kafkaesque bureaucracy, who will control this feed if #chatcontrol is approved?
The Void ザ・ヴォイド@EUCommission Why are all those spaces missing in the text?
testman@TheVoidTLMB oh, you see that as spaces missing? I see uneccessary line breaks. Maybe the person who made the post formatted it to display well on their specific client / device, but now it shows up strangely on other clients.
Guillaume Rossolini@TheVoidTLMB normally, a web client should ignore consecutive spaces (also consecutive line breaks)
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