Jan Penfrat

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Jan Penfrat
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Policy guy [@edri](https://eupolicy.social/@edri ), working on platform regulation, content moderation, data protection and surveillance ads. Digital security trainer, cyclist, lover of the outdoors. Formerly writing for Golem.de. #DSA #DMA #TrackingFreeAds #Surveillance #Decentralisation #Policy #Privacy #DataProtection #Cycling Matrix ID: @jan:penfrat.net PGP public key: https://keyoxide.org/B170DFF3794493D851724E8370940C3F58391D26 Work: https://edri.org/about-us/our-team/ Cycling far away: https://biketheworld.blog
So @European Commission president #VonDerLeyen has caved into pressure from the German #CDU #CSU government and car industry: She proposed yesterday to axe her own #GreenDeal flagship that was supposed to end the sales of combustion engine cars by 2035. Her unconvincing blah blah press release blathers of #innovation, #CleanMobility and #competitiveness in order to hide what it really is: a subsidy for #FossilFuel billionaires paid for with the #health of our children. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis
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 Totally agree to be pissed about #ChatControl and Yes to direct that anger at the @European Commission. At the same time, I think it's important to understand that the Commission is not one unified block. It's a huge institution, and totally possible that the Directorate-General for Home Affairs promotes breaking #encryption while DG Justice attempts to protect #democracy and folks who drafted the original #DSA in DG Connect try to defend Europeans' free expression rights from #BigTech overreach. View quoted note →
Today, the #EU will launch a new legal entity aimed at supporting the development of the #DigitalCommons. The so-called European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (#EDIC) is a legal instrument that allows EU countries to pool resources and "coordinate with communities to develop, maintain and scale digital commons and facilitate their uptake." Depending on who leads it, this #DCEDIC might become something great, or it could end in failure just as #GaiaX did. 🍿
Shaping Europe’s digital future
Commission to launch Digital Commons EDIC to support sovereign European digital infrastructure and technology
On 29 October, the European Commission adopted a decision establishing the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC), a ...