What a timing: while I'm sitting at a #CloudAbolition workshop, #AWS takes down major centralised services like #Signal, #WhatsApp and #Teams.
People continue happily texting me on @npub1m9z3...whzq though π :fedi:
Since it has gotten some beating recently (in particular from #Apple fanboys), I've written something about the #DigitalMarketsAct for @EDRi and how things are going at this front:
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
#AI #AIcon #exploitation #BigTech
Yay looks like the @European Commission and #EDPB have taken a rather clear joint position: #PayOrConsent is unlawful for gatekeepers under #DMA and #GDPR.
Hello #Meta π
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#privacy #DataProtection #gatekeepers #PayorOK
Sounds like Tech Commissioner #Virkkunen is trying to reassure critics in the #EU on #DSA + #DMA enforcement:
βI have been working all the time on these topics. But of course, people, they have very different personal styles, I think,β she told #Politico.
βItβs important to stay calm, even if there are different kinds of attacks against this legislation,... We are fully enforcing the rules all the time and everybody can be ensured on that.β
βOur rules are not part of trade negotiations.β
Unpopular opinion:
#JensSpahn and the German #CDUCSU don't oppose #ChatControl because of our #civilsociety pressure but because the far-right #noAfD opposes it as well.
I know some of us are really angered by #Meta's decision to stop running political, electoral and social issue ads in the EU.
I understand this will force many civil society orgs to painfully disentangle their own #campaigning from #Meta platforms.
But in my books it's a win-win: CSOs win because they finally break free from an abusive relationship, and society wins because less of our political debates and election campaigns are run on toxic #BigTech platforms.
#TrackingFreeAds #PoliticalAds
The good thing about the #drone appearances over European airports is that they force interior ministers to finally work on actual threats to our societies, and maybe have less time to waste on all those imagined threats like #migration, #antifa, #FreePalestine, and #GoingDark.
I currently read Alex Vitale's The End Of Policing. I was skeptical at first. After about a third I thought "Yes OK that's true but mostly applies to the US, right?"
But then, where Vitale argues #police has always been a political, never a #crime-fighting tool, I suddenly realised:
Holy shit I myself & everyone in my bubble finds it totally normal that police are present at #protests but would *never* expect them to solve my burglary case or find my stolen bicycle. π²
