Mastodawn

🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow..

and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
1. Device attestation
2. Developer registration
3. Age/identity verification

What should I absolutely include? 👀

Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language + realistic calls to action pls.

@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid

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Jan Vlug Jun 7

@Gina

EU policy makers should oppose #AppDwang for all reasons mentioned here:

https://appdwang.nl/

Android emulators are not the solution. It will be an endless rearguard action.

See: https://puri.sm/posts/googles-lock-down-policy/

Policy makers should enforce availability of all public and essential services on Free and Open Source (#FOSS) platforms, e.g. #Linux and standard compliant browsers.

Support #MobileLinux.

@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid

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Frank Jun 7

@janvlug @Gina +1.

It is about equality and accessibility. Why contribute to a closed ecosystem and knowingly and forcibly exclude some citizens?

A government should be there for ALL citizens in the same way we have all agreed that physical access to public places is a right, even if you lack some physical abilities or use assistive technology.

We have the same accessibility laws for digital information. Time to include platform agnostics in the mix.

Include ALL citizens, don't exclude!

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vandefiets Jun 7

@fschaap @janvlug @Gina Digital services are excluding non-digital folk. A government for all citizens should not enforce digitalization in the first place.

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Frank

@vandefiets @janvlug @Gina Very much agreed. "Platform agnostic" should definitely include non-digital options.

It's basically not even about technology but about humans and being human about it.

"We are a government and we need some things from our citizens and they need some things from us. How are we going to organize this in a way that respects the humanity of everyone involved?"

Government needs to be efficient to a degree but not at all costs. #Humanism #HumansFirst