Julian Oliver

A great piece calling out the desperate lack of ambition, vision and rigour in the EU's new digital sovereignty package.

"Brussels fails to recognise that digital sovereignty isn’t just about who owns or controls your technology. It’s also about having an independent vision for how that technology is designed, developed and deployed. If Europe really wants to be sovereign, it needs to free itself from Silicon Valley’s ideology, not just its tech."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/15/europe-us-big-tech-silicon-valley-european-commission

#sovereignty

Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook

The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of vision, says Max von Thun of the Open Markets Institute Europe

The Guardian
Jun 15 at 6:54amWeb
Show threadKarl Heinz HäsliprinzJun 15
@JulianOliver Yep. Teams is not shit becaus its not european but because it's boss-surveillance ware that pretends to be collaboration ware... etc.
Show threadBad News NobodyJun 15
@KarlHeinzHasliP @JulianOliver All they want is something that they can directly control, they are unbothered by any other consideration.
Show threadTaran RampersadJun 15

@JulianOliver wrote something on this myself not long ago.

https://knowprose.com/2026/04/re-imagining-instead-of-replacing/

Re-Imagining Instead of Replacing - KnowProSE.com

When I read “Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds,” it caught my attention.

KnowProSE.com
Show threadluca has movedJun 15
@JulianOliver Decisional power keeps being in the hands of blind bureaucrats, busy at celebrating their claims of success, with no view on the real world lived by almost all the citizens.
I would condamn each of them to live one year as a low wage citizen, out of four in public offices.
Show threadJulian OliverJun 15
@luc0x61 I hear you. A parallel strategy to filter the selfish from true public servants may be to ensure none earn more than the average wage.