Love how a resident fighting the construction of a large ugly office tower in my #Brussels neighbourhood casually shows off his @npub12lnx...vs03 #Linux laptop on local TV and loads files from the city's @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 instance. ❤️ #FOSS #FreeSoftware #DigitalSovereignty #Delta #Auderghem #TourTriomphe image
Excellent call by [@offene_netzwerke](
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Offene Netzwerke (@offene_netzwerke@eupolicy.social)
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 ) for better public funding for the #Fediverse: 1. #FediverseFund for user-centred development, €30 million annually 2. Anchoring the +1 principle in the work of the governments & public institutions 3. Recognition of non-profit status in the field of decentralised #DigitalInfrastructure 4. Establishment of decentralised, interoperable & cross-sectoral pan-European media platforms with involvement of civil society 📄.pdf
"#SiliconValley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." "Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, #AI, #finance, #drones, #satellites—an integrated system we call the #AuthoritarianStack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules."
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
 #Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalSelfdetermination