Good morning Fediverse's EU tech policy nerds!
Up today: the @EUCommission's #DMA workshop with #gatekeeper#Microsoft.
(Sorry #NGIForum25 two floors below, no time for you today 馃槍)
We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how #Windows is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to #Edge, #Xbox, #OneDrive, #ChatGPT, etc.
I'm only an hour into the conference but am a bit worried already about the #DigitalSovereignty topic to be -- again -- mostly discussed as a geopolitical issue like the #EuroStack rather than from a user freedom and individual autonomy angle. Let's see where the discussion goes...
Nice, thank you @robin for these remarks:
"If you create authoritarian #infrastructure, you will get an authoritarian society," and
"Tech #monopolies were not made by innovation and they won't be broken by #innovation."
