Following the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) announced this week…
Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the European Social Stack Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #SocialWeb and #Fediverse: @anewsocial, @eurosky.social, @newsmast, Save Social, and @swf.
We are a movement, and stronger together.
Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: https://european.social/
@Mastodon
This obsession with “Europeanness” is really worrying. You suggest that European govt or business interference were not a threat to public-interest infrastructure. But they are.
YES to everything related to decentralisation and democratic principles. NO to the Europe-first bs (and the EU ID wallet of course).
@EUCommission @anewsocial @eurosky.social @newsmast @swf
In that regard, this article covers most of the dangers of assuming an European infrastructure is, per se, a net bonus - unless specific measures are taken to preserve such infrastructure from a hostile takeover from a non-democratic movement within the EU, that infrastructure becomes an engine for such a movement to target its political opponents and suppress free speech. The ID wallet can potentially be used to disenfranchise political opponents, and block entire groups of people from access to information, even under the right hands - and far more so under the wrong ones.
defenddemocracy.eu/eu-tech-dem…
@alineblankertz @EUCommission @anewsocial @newsmast @Mastodon @eurosky.social
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Aline Blankertz
Carlos Solís