If we don't tell our story, am not sure who will

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/… Draft story about our #EU outreach, please edit and add links, thanks.

Nice to see replies, we really need to celebrate that a group of grassroots #4opens activist got the #EU to use #fediverse #openweb apps. This shows where the value comes from, good to link to this thanks

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Let's talk about engagement on the #fediverse:

The @EU_Commission
has 71k followers on #mastodon. They have 1.7 million followers on Twitter.

The same post got:
363 boosts on Mastodon
110 retweets on Twitter

So the same message got 3 times as many engagements on the #openweb

We really need to celebrate that a group of grassroots #4opens activists got the #EU to use #fediverse #openweb apps. This shows where the value comes from, good to link to this thanks

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Microsoft folks: we’re not evil.

Also Microsoft folks: …

(Hey @EU_Commission, mind forwarding this to @EC_Commissioner_Vestager for me? She doesn’t seem to be active here but something tells me this might interest her.)

#competition #antitrust #eu #microsoft #edge #bing #mozilla #firefox

Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?

Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…

Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.

ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of…

#funding #tech #eu #commons

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament

A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

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This is wild and not in a good way: help.oclc.org/@api/deki/files/…

Basically a hack to get around the EU Copyright law affects interlibrary loans. The implementation is crazy, but the whole concept of needing such a solution is even crazier.

#library #copyright #eu

#Google #Analytics declared illegal in the #EU

Post by #Tutanota
tutanota.com/blog/posts/google…

Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU.

Will Google protect data of European better to comply with the GDPR?

^Tutanota

#China blocking #EU imports with #Lithuanian components over #Taiwan row

euronews.com/2021/12/24/china-…

China blocking EU imports with Lithuanian components over Taiwan row, says Brussels

Beijing has denied the claim.

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European Citizens' Initiative: Start Unconditional Basic Incomes (UBI) throughout the EU
eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/…

"Our aim is to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure every person’s material existence and opportunity to participate in society as part of its economic policy. This aim shall be reached while remaining within the competences conferred to the EU by the Treaties."

#Europe #Europa #EU #UBI #BasicIncome #UniversalBasicIncome

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