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European Commission on Mastodon

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

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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 ...

As of today: No social media for Australians under 16. Also as of today: Every Australian under 16 installs a dodgy gratis #VPN that spies on them and sells their digital lives to #adtech sharks. #SocialMediaBan #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #MinorsProtection

The news that #X has suspended the #EU's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious. And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a lunatic for its public communications.

X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine – POLITICO

#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignty #RuleOfLaw

I'm usually no #fiction reader, you'll only see me a read one #novel every few years. But @npub18ak6...untn's #scifi novel #Bikepunk - Les croniques du flash was a great read: A beautiful homage to the #bicycle and low-tech more generally, embedded in a post-apocalyptic storyline that is deeply human, surprisingly feminist and non-ableist, and just a real treat for your imagination. I kind of left it with the feeling that the world the author has created deserves a tome 2 😊

"The Dutch government has quietly removed #Google #tracking tools from job listings for its intelligence services over concerns that the data would expose aspirant spies to U.S. #surveillance," according to POLITICO. "The intervention would put an end to Google’s processing of the data of job seekers interested in applying to #spy service jobs, after members of parliament in The Hague raised security concerns." 💥