The proposed California law requiring age verification on all OSs is just silly. How do you enforce a border on a kernel?

Unless they mandate locked bootloaders at the OEM level, which is a direct attack on #RightToRepair , they can't stop anyone from installing a #Linux distro. It is a move that only hurts law abiding users while being trivial for anyone with a thumb drive to bypass.

Privacy is a right, not a verified privilege.

#GNULinux #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #California #TechPolicy

The proposed California law requiring age verification on all OSs is just silly. How do you enforce a border on a kernel?

Unless they mandate locked bootloaders at the OEM level, which is a direct attack on #RightToRepair , they can't stop anyone from installing a #Linux distro. It is a move that only hurts law abiding users while being trivial for anyone with a thumb drive to bypass.

Privacy is a right, not a verified privilege.

#GNULinux #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #California #TechPolicy

Our Agreement with the Department of War

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war

#HackerNews #OurAgreement #DepartmentOfWar #OpenAI #News #TechPolicy

Banned in California

https://www.bannedincalifornia.org/

#HackerNews #BannedInCalifornia #CaliforniaNews #TechPolicy #SocialIssues #HackerNews

We keep hearing AI framed as an apocalypse or a miracle. Reality is far less dramatic.

On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Sayash Kapoor joins Kevin Frazier to unpack AI as a powerful—but ultimately normal—general-purpose technology & what that means for democracy, work, risk, and policy.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-as-normal-technology

#ai #techpolicy @internetarchive

Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence

https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence

#HackerNews #DanishGov #DigitalIndependence #MicrosoftAlternative #TechPolicy #OpenSource

I love helping civil/civic organizations move away from #bigtech & deploy alternatives.

The urgency is clearer than ever. #DigitalAutonomy has become a mainstream media topic. Yet thus far it has been mostly empty words.

The pace of actual change is either 'pre-climate-change' glacially slow, near invisible, non-existent or still going into the opposite direction. Very frustrating.

They all talk the talk, but few actually walk the walk...

😮‍💨😔

#Tech #TechPolicy #Opensource #Fediverse

🎙️ Join us for FUTURE KNOWLEDGE #PODCAST LIVE RECORDING: AI TOOLS, NOT GODS

Featuring Caroline De Cock, LL.M., Head of Research at information labs & a leading voice on digital rights, AI governance, and technology policy. A clear-eyed look at how AI narratives influence real laws.

📆 Tues Feb 10
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online event
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-ai-tools-not-gods/

Co-hosted by @internetarchive & @AuthorsAlliance.

@glynmoody #booktalk #AIpolicy #TechPolicy

An emotional call to action - from the heart - by @RichiH - one of the #Fosdem organizers to resist, organize and protect our democracies aimed at the #floss #opensource community at the start of Fosdem 2026.

The full, original video can be found here: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026

PS: Happy to join you on the list @RichiH 😉

#Democracy #Politics #Tech #HumanRights #Human #Historical #EU #TechPolicy

RE: https://ps.s10y.eu/@NGI_TALER/115979059032103616

How dependent is Europe on US tech giants for core digital infrastructure like the Digital Euro?
In Das Parlament, Prof. Christian Grothoff warns:
🛑 As long as it’s built on proprietary tech digital sovereignty remains an illusion.
✅ The answer? Critical public infrastructure must be built on Free Software.
🔗 https://www.das-parlament.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/die-abhaengigkeit-von-google-und-apple-bleibt
#GNUTaler #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenInfrastructure #TechPolicy
#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalEuro #PublicCode

RE: https://ps.s10y.eu/@NGI_TALER/115979059032103616

How dependent is Europe on US tech giants for core digital infrastructure like the Digital Euro?
In Das Parlament, Prof. Christian Grothoff warns:
🛑 As long as it’s built on proprietary tech digital sovereignty remains an illusion.
✅ The answer? Critical public infrastructure must be built on Free Software.
🔗 https://www.das-parlament.de/wirtschaft/finanzen/die-abhaengigkeit-von-google-und-apple-bleibt
#GNUTaler #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenInfrastructure #TechPolicy
#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalEuro #PublicCode

@EC_OSPO @EC_DIGIT @bert_hubert @rriemann

I'm sharing this story, because I want OpenSource in EU & at the EC to succeed.

Not to shame people, but to give them the info they need to nudge their peers/superiors into changing the current failing system.

Thanks in advance!

#Tech #OpenSource #TechPolicy #Fosdem

🔊 The @EUCommission 🇪🇺 is seeking input on #Open #Digital #Ecosystems!

The European Commission’s Call for Evidence aims to shape a strategy for open source & open digital assets, boosting tech sovereignty, security & competitiveness.

🫵 If you’re a dev, researcher, or public admin: your voice matters! 🗣️

🔗 Share your feedback: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en

#OpenSource #DigitalEurope #TechPolicy #Innovation

@martelinnovate @linuxfoundation @cnrs @OpenForumEurope @openfuture @ngi

Officials claim we have "lost the internet" to the US.

​I am sick of this loser mentality. 😤

​We are witnessing a collective psychosis of defeatism in Brussels.

​I refuse to accept this submission. A continent that apologizes for its own existence will never build the future.

​Lose the victim mindset. Or step aside for those who want to build. 🇪🇺🚀

https://cybernews.com/news/europe-internet-control-sovereignty-united-states/

​ #EUPol #DigitalSovereignty #StrategicAutonomy #CyberSecurity #BigTech #TechPolicy #Europe #Innovation #TeamEurope #EU