L'UE è una "colonia digitale degli Stati Uniti", ma un'italiana sta cercando di cambiare le cose, con un certo successo
Tutta l'Europa è dipendente dai prodotti e dai servizi delle aziende tecnologiche americane. Un gruppo di europei sta cercando di cambiare questa situazione. Ma come si fa a convincere 27 paesi a unirsi e a vendere qualcosa che ancora non esiste?
In Dutch, but it should translate well. @Marloezovic followed the #EuroStack for a year, and here is her @nrc_nl piece on what she learned on what has been achieved (quite a lot). Also includes the news that I left the EuroStack Signal groups, but that I continue to wish them well: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/30/hoe-een-italiaanse-powerlady-brussel-overtuigt-om-in-te-zetten-op-een-europese-techindustrie-a4916400?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=clipboard&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal&gift_token=4916400~1767779605~xaUY7O7bRbydGeZo43Zzfw~4ZUQNPVFMOqejCxfQG_GeUGb6pL8TKyUHbu_EZQ2xkQ
Chancellor Merz, President Macron and entourage have arrived at #EUsummit25. 🇩🇪🇫🇷
Merz so far mentions that we are too dependent on foreign powers such as China and the US, and that we need European innovation like #Eurostack. 🇪🇺
Merz: "Because of our size and position, Germany and France carry a special responsibility to realize digital sovereignty."
Macron: "Europe doesn't to be the clients of foreign big tech. We want to design our own solutions."
Cristina: #eurostack is #b2b not consumer.
Great clarification.
Closing remarks, with allusions to trade policy and #EuroStack:
@pluralistic: “I think we’re in the in the first days of the post-American Internet. It may not be a good Internet. But we could make it a good Internet.”
Lina Khan: “We’re going to have to reckon with the question of whether cloud computing should be treated as core infrastructure.”
Cory and Lina for #PublicAI? 👀
Closing remarks, with allusions to trade policy and #EuroStack:
@pluralistic: “I think we’re in the in the first days of the post-American Internet. It may not be a good Internet. But we could make it a good Internet.”
Lina Khan: “We’re going to have to reckon with the question of whether cloud computing should be treated as core infrastructure.”
Cory and Lina for #PublicAI? 👀
We have @pluralistic in the #4D Conference, talking about how the US Trade Rep always had stopped tech from becoming better public tech. Key example: Anti-Circumvention regulation.
For Trump, the US trading partners are now its rivals and tech companies its key weapons. Ordering the EU to scrap its DMA regulation...
Cory arguing that in order to transition to something like a #EuroStack we need to eliminate the Anti-Circumvention legislation (Art. 6 of Copyright directive). The only realistic way for us to build the tools to extract our data from BigTech platforms.
In the process we enhance product reuse, repair and full use of the DRM'd and protected products we have in our possession (but we are not legally allowed to fully control)
@pluralistic key insight for me was.."We need to make it legal for European technologists to reverse-engineer the American tech platforms' websites and apps so that Europeans can get their data out of America's tech silos and into open, sovereign, privacy-respecting, consumer rights-preserving, worker-protecting #Eurostack versions." Fascinating as ever, sorry never to meet you in #Budapest
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@pluralistic key insight for me was.."We need to make it legal for European technologists to reverse-engineer the American tech platforms' websites and apps so that Europeans can get their data out of America's tech silos and into open, sovereign, privacy-respecting, consumer rights-preserving, worker-protecting #Eurostack versions." Fascinating as ever, sorry never to meet you in #Budapest
"Any business that relies on EUCD 6 is garbage and should be killed with fire. The global champions of this legal sabotage are all American, but the EU companies that copied their business models are also trash and the EU should be terminating them with extreme prejudice." - @pluralistic
"Any business that relies on EUCD 6 is garbage and should be killed with fire. The global champions of this legal sabotage are all American, but the EU companies that copied their business models are also trash and the EU should be terminating them with extreme prejudice." - @pluralistic
IO+ reviewed Dutch Parliament voting for the Hague Innovation Check. Result: Volt Netherlands ranked #1 on innovative voting about data. Data sovereignty is something you do:
🔁 Practice what you preach: Volt moved from Meta Workplace to European Haiilo.
🏛 Government sets the standard: open-source-by-default + European cloud.
🇪🇺 Build scale: support EuroStack & EU cooperation so tech follows public values.
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
Our Single Sign On (SSO) Services now include a shared wiki space, for all your knowledge management needs 😊
This makes for four autonomous services you can purchase, hosted on the #EuroStack 🇪🇺🇩🇪
- Wiki service
- Git service
- Dashboard service
- Link manager
Check it out and sign up for a free trial: https://libscie.org/pricing
Mmmm, let's see if this wonderful #PrivacyCamp25 panel with @parismarx, @alexandrageese, Zuzanna Warso, @eliza and @Ambersinha is able to deconstruct the sadly dominant #Eurostack / #BuyEuropean narrative...
Finally, a breakthrough! Following a letter I initiated in February, The European Commission is backing the #Eurostack initiative to develop alternative European digital solutions.
Looking forward to seeing this turned into concrete action to break free from Trump and tech oligarchs.
Ha Zuzanna Warso from @openfuture starts off with strong words: "Venture Capital is dangerous, it's toxic, it destroys the economy." #PrivacyCamp25
Okay, MEP @alexandrageese seems to agree that the #Eurostack approach risks giving us "more of the same" toxic tech, or something even worse. And that a #BuyEuropean conditionality has no guarantee that the new tech actually works for the public good. #PrivacyCamp25
Mmmm, let's see if this wonderful #PrivacyCamp25 panel with @parismarx, @alexandrageese, Zuzanna Warso, @eliza and @Ambersinha is able to deconstruct the sadly dominant #Eurostack / #BuyEuropean narrative...
Finally, a breakthrough! Following a letter I initiated in February, The European Commission is backing the #Eurostack initiative to develop alternative European digital solutions.
Looking forward to seeing this turned into concrete action to break free from Trump and tech oligarchs.
