When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
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Good point that some are pushing the goal of digital sovereignty as well, but not with the public good in mind.
"They want to hold onto the Silicon Valley model and the harms that it’s created, but better cash in on it for themselves. They want to join the digital colonizers rather than bring them down."
@parismarx imo a big problem a lot of people like the centralized nature of big platforms. Carney and, to be fair, most non-US politicians stay twitter for some odd reason.
Imo if we went back to more of a classic internet mentality and supported methods that separated the server from the client would help. Ex: file distribution via SFTP (or something new & similar) and give up on the idea we can do everything in one place. Fund small groups to strengthen things like IRC & drop slack / teams.
@parismarx I've been meaning to move to Proton and after reading this I took the time to do it and drop Google Mail
@bsi Und ihr paktiert mit Amazon…
@parismarx thank you for your work highlighting this. There is now some great information coming out of Europe on alternatives to software from big US tech.
@parismarx Seems all government used software should be open source, as it’s technically paid for and owned by everyone, everyone should be able to see what it is.
@parismarx f**k this crusades
