Jan Penfrat23h ago

Reason number 43,756 why a #BuyEuropean tech policy or mandate makes no sense:

https://www.heise.de/en/news/USA-bans-all-new-routers-for-consumers-11222049.html

#DigitalSelfdetermination #DigitalSovereignty

USA bans all new routers for consumers

The USA will only allow routers manufactured in the country for consumers from now on. However, such models do not exist.

heise online
Show threadGonoMobil21h ago

@ilumium A reasonable #BuyEuropean mandate makes absolute sense. The FCC-example (for it‘s BuyAmerican counterpart) is NOT reasonable, it‘s what you get when you marry incompetence with ideology and corruption and label it as Divine Will.

Just keep rightwing tech-illiterates out of the equation, and things could truly thrive.

#corruption #MAGAFailure #incompetence #illiteracy #TechIlliteracy

Show threadMiron 🇪🇺20h ago

@Gernotti @ilumium I agree, a buy European tech policy would totally make sense.

Deciso, the company behind OPNSense is from the Netherlands and they make the hardware and the open source software.

https://www.deciso.com/

Home - Deciso

Deciso
Show threadJan Penfrat19h ago
@hmiron @Gernotti And why couldn't that be done out of Australia, Japan or Brazil?
Show threadGonoMobil
@ilumium @hmiron „Everything needs to be produced in Europe“ would be a prime example of a doomed/bad implementation for #BuyEuropean . More sensible is a EU-regulation for state-invests like: Prefer an origin of product/service in that order: 🇪🇺, democratic partners with trade agreements, other parters with trade agreements; avoid autocrats when possible; ban open enemies.
How to technically promote this, dunno, question is wether the political will exists.
Mar 25 at 1:30pmMastodon for iOS