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Choose one: #Democracy or #MassSurveillance #ChatControl and similar proposals are fundamentally incompatible with a democratic #EU. However, they are perfect for actors who want an authoritarian EU with mandatory age restrictions (ID verification) just to participate in democratic discourse.

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Good arguments by @npub1fdrp...lvhs on why we need to focus on liberating people who are forcibly locked into Big Tech. > #Mastodon 's progenitors should be praised for ensuring their creation was born free – but the fact that #Bluesky isn't free enough is no reason to turn our back on it. Our response to anything that locks in the people we care about must be to *shatter those locks*, not abandon the people bound by the locks because they didn't heed to our warnings.

Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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