It was a pleasure to speak with @npub157rh...8pny about ending dependence on Big Tech companies and how this is currently playing out in Europe. How is this linked to current debates about security and regulation (well, anti-regulation)? Who is most likely to benefit from a EU-nationalist understanding of sovereignty? And what would a more structurally different, i.e. internationalist response encompass? 👇

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Can Europe End Its Dependence on US Tech? w/ Aline Blankertz

Tech Won't Save Us · Episode

or here for avoiding extractive tech made in EU:

Tech Won't Save Us

Tech Won’t Save Us

Very inspiring presentation by Cecilia Rikap at the [@Weizenbaum_Institut](

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Weizenbaum-Institut (@Weizenbaum_Institut@social.bund.de)

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) on digital sovereignty! „It’s a time of confrontation! […] This is not about appeasing the centre.“ Now discussing with @npub12wdn...aatc Adriana Groh and @npub1ecxz...dntp moderated by @npub13kzy...t8e2. How can we strengthen the public sector and protect it from a far-right takeover? Public procurement is a key lever, that’s agreed. But on a private or a public cloud?