"Wir müssen diese Plattformen wie Feinde behandeln", schrieb @markus_netzpolitik kürzlich über die #BigTech-Konzerne. Er zitierte dabei die britische Journalistin Carole Cadwalladr, die ihre Kritik am #Plattformkapitalismus kundtat.

Optionen:
- BigTech-Unternehmen besser kontrollieren
- Gemeinwohlorientierten Alternativen stärker fördern
- Auf der persönlichen Ebene aktiv werden (z.B. Signal statt WhatsApp).

https://digitalpolitik.ghost.io/meta-steht-wegen-machtmissbrauch-in-den-usa-vor-gericht/

https://www.europesays.com/1998082/ The trade war uncovers new economies of scale: Morning Brief #BigTech #business #NetworkingEquipment #tariffs #TradeWar #WhiteHouse

Peak mimetic big tech: X/Twitter went AI (Grok)? OpenAI will go microblogging. (We can only assume sharing short videos and dating should be around the corner.)
#BigTech
https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/15/report-openai-is-building-a-new-social-network/

Google, antitrust enforcement and the future of European digital sovereignty.

Google’s antitrust worries are piling up in the US and in Europe.

In recent years, there has been growing concern that Google may be using anticompetitive means to protect and extend dominant positions in core digital markets.

But the Trump administration isn’t pleased with EU regulatory efforts.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250414-google-antitrust-enforcement-and-the-future-of-european-digital-sovereignty?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

In a first, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google, accusing it of violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its apps in smartphones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #google #phones #bigtech #search #ftc #tech #apps

"Apart from #security and #privacy concerns, our alternative-less reliance on #BigTech is fundamentally at odds with public values like #freedom, #independence, #autonomy and #equality. The #digitalservices we use for our research and teaching are profoundly shaping our professional practices; the incorporation of the newest #AItools (co-Pilot) in basic software (MS Office 365), substantially shape our teaching and research and hence impact our professional #autonomy."

https://algosoc.org/results/calling-for-a-transformation-to-digital-autonomy

Meta nutzt EU-Nutzerdaten für KI-Entwicklung!

Meta verwendet ab sofort öffentliche Daten von EU-Nutzern auf Facebook und Instagram zur Verbesserung seiner KI-Modelle. Nutzer können über ein Formular widersprechen.

Widerspruch Link im Beitrag

#KI #Datenschutz #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #EU #news #ai #datasecurity #leavemeta #leavebigtech #unplugbigtech #widerspruch #bigtech

https://dndnetz.blogspot.com/2025/04/meta-setzt-eu-nutzerdaten-fur-ki.html

Meta to train its AI models on public data of European users.

Meta on Monday said it would incorporate user interactions with its AI, as well as posts and comments by adults across its platforms, to train its artificial intelligence models in the European Union.

Users will still be able to opt out of having their data used.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250414-meta-to-train-its-ai-models-on-public-data-of-european-users?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Zuckerberg in the Hot Seat: Landmark FTC Antitrust Case Kicks Off, Putting his $1.4 Trillion Social Media Empire at Risk

#Meta #FTCvsMeta #Antitrust #BigTech #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #WhatsApp #Instagram #DigitalMarkets #CompetitionLaw #Facebook

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/15/zuckerberg-in-the-hot-seat-landmark-ftc-antitrust-case-kicks-off-putting-his-1-4-trillion-social-media-empire-at-risk-xcxwbn/

How much tax does Big Tech avoid paying?

the Fair Tax Foundation has looked at average tax rates paid by US corporations & the effective tax rates paid the 'Silicon Six' & has concluded they've paid around $278bn less than they should have over the last decade.

So if you wondered how the big tech moguls become so rich, the answer in part is we've been subsidising them....

[I would be very surprised if the European tax situation varies much from the US]

#tax #BigTech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years

Artificial Intelligence is all hype and no substance. Big Tech has spun a fairytale full of lies bout what #ai can do. But the reality is catching up to them.

This week the roots of change podcast hosts
Dr. Linda Berberich to discuss #artificial
& #bigtech harms and what we do about it.

AI’s Overhype & Social Harms with Dr Linda Berberich:
https://www.rootschangemedia.com/pod-ai-linda-berberich/

Been doing research. It seems there is currently no ethical excuse for anyone to be involved in online advertising. Thanks to politics and human nature, there is simply no viable ethical online platform in existence. The entire industry, as it currently stands, is inherently immoral.

Would love to be proved wrong.
#advertising #bigtech #socialmedia

How political is your pizza? The Mediterranean Diet and Europe’s food battles – POLITICO https://www.diningandcooking.com/2016883/how-political-is-your-pizza-the-mediterranean-diet-and-europes-food-battles-politico/ ##elections #agriculture #AgricultureAndFood #BigTech #democracy #DigitalServicesAct #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #EUConfidential #EuropeanGreenDeal #FarRight #FarmToFork #Finland #FoodSafety #GiorgiaMeloni #HennaVirkkunen #italy #MarkZuckerberg #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanSea #security #tariffs #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen

"The startup country contingent is clearly foreseeing a future marked by shocks, scarcity and collapse. Their high-tech private domains are essentially fortressed escape pods, designed for the select few to take advantage of every possible luxury and opportunity for human optimization, giving them and their children an edge in an increasingly barbarous future. To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.

That is not so far away from the more mass-market vision of fortressed nations that has gripped the hard right globally, from Italy to Israel, Australia to the United States: in a time of ceaseless peril, openly supremacist movements in these countries are positioning their relatively wealthy states as armed bunkers. These bunkers are brutal in their determination to expel and imprison unwanted humans (even if that requires indefinite confinement in extra-national penal colonies from Manus Island to Guantánamo Bay) and equally ruthless in their willingness to violently claim the land and resources (water, energy, critical minerals) they deem necessary to weather the coming shocks.

Interestingly, at a time when previously secular Silicon Valley elites are suddenly finding Jesus, it is noteworthy that both of these visions – the priority-pass corporate state and the mass-market bunker nation – share a great deal in common with the Christian fundamentalist interpretation of the biblical Rapture, when the faithful will supposedly be lifted up to a golden city in heaven, while the damned are left to endure an apocalyptic final battle down here on earth.

If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

Heute beginnt in den USA der Monopolprozess gegen Meta. Die US-Wettbewerbsbehörde FTC wirft dem Tech-Konzern vor, mit den Übernahmen von WhatsApp und Instagram illegal die Monopolstellung von Facebook geschützt zu haben.

Die Klage stammt ursprünglich aus Trumps erster Amtszeit und zielt auf die Abspaltung von Whatsapp und Instagram. Es ist gut, dass die Verfahren gegen die Monopolmacht der Tech-Konzerne weitergehen. Auch wenn der weitere Verlauf unter Trump unsicher ist.

Basis-Infos auf Deutsch:
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/meta-zuckerberg-ftc-instagram-whatsapp-klage-100.html

Mehr Details zum Verfahren und den rechtlichen Fragen auf englisch:
https://www.techpolicy.press/ftc-heads-to-trial-to-break-up-meta-what-you-need-to-know/