samvie<p>🚨 Deutsche Bundesregierung plant Abgabe "Plattform-Soli" für <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> Konzerne </p><p>Kulturstaatsminister Weimer plant eine <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Digitalabgabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digitalabgabe</span></a>, die Internetkonzerne wie <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> & den <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a>-Konzern <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> treffen würde. </p><p>Vorbild ist <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/%C3%96sterreich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Österreich</span></a> :<br>Dort sind große <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Plattformen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plattformen</span></a> seit 2020 verpflichtet, 5% der Einkünfte aus der Werbevermarktung abzuführen. </p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digitales/steuer-digitalkonzerne-weimer-100.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/digit</span><span class="invisible">ales/steuer-digitalkonzerne-weimer-100.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/republica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republica</span></a> <br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Marktmacht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marktmacht</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Steuervermeidung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steuervermeidung</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/savesocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>savesocial</span></a></p>
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Patrick Leavy<p>We all need to leave <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> platforms - so what's the deadline?</p><p>How about 31st December 2025? (A perversion of Project 2025? 😂)</p><p>Start running alternatives in parallel NOW, so you're ready to switch big tech off in December - <a href="https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rebeltechalliance.org/stopusin</span><span class="invisible">gbigtech.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallTechDeadline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTechDeadline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalExodus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalExodus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerSwitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerSwitch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalTechWalkout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTechWalkout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTechDeadline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTechDeadline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deadline2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deadline2025</span></a></p>
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency<p>So here we are with those small but important things that make ditching Big Tech grating, especially if it's more of a practicality than an identity: Testing out the Docs part of my Nextcloud account with The Good Cloud & it works fine - except that the font choice, already limited to mostly dozens of versions of Noto, is down to just a handful of options that support Danish special characters... 🙄</p><p><a href="https://helvede.net/tags/DeGoogling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeGoogling</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://helvede.net/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a></p>
Wesley Fryer<p>Texas Governor Signs Age Verification Bill Despite Heavy Pushback From Apple (PCMag, 27 May 2025)<br><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/despite-heavy-pushback-from-apple-texas-gov-signs-age-verification-bill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pcmag.com/news/despite-heavy-p</span><span class="invisible">ushback-from-apple-texas-gov-signs-age-verification-bill</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MediaLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/edtechSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edtechSR</span></a></p>
Wesley Fryer<p>Extraordinarily Expensive Costs Force Getty to Pick Its AI Legal Battles (Ars Technica, 28 May 2025)<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MediaLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/edtechSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edtechSR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/MediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLiteracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search. </p><p>Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves. </p><p>As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”</p><p>Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web. </p><p>I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future. </p><p>Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google. </p><p>Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel. </p><p>If Google can use AI to censor a travel website from the web arbitrarily and without opportunity for appeal – it can do the same to any source of information it wants. </p><p>And American citizens and Internet users everywhere will be worse off for it. </p><p>So while you may not really care about the plight of some random travel website getting censored, everyone should care about the way Google is deploying AI to build a censorship cartel that lets it control the flow of information online. </p><p>What follows is a lengthy summary of my experiences and my opinions as an independent publisher trying to survive in a monopolist’s information economy. </p><p>To start, let me explain how we got to this point where Google has the power to do this:"</p><p><a href="https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">travellemming.com/perspectives</span><span class="invisible">/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SearchEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngines</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISearch</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Competition</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>“We’re building services that improve the personal computing experience by understanding your unique context and taking action at your command. When you use our services, you’re trusting us to handle your personal data.”</p><p><a href="https://sky.app/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sky.app/privacy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>A VC-backed startup with Sam Altman as their lead investor* wants the keys to your Mac.</p><p>Yeah, no.</p><p>* <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/software-applications-incorporated-seed--db0eafa1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">crunchbase.com/funding_round/s</span><span class="invisible">oftware-applications-incorporated-seed--db0eafa1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Sky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamAltman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/startup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/VC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/114586346228814327" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.macstories.net/@vitic</span><span class="invisible">ci/114586346228814327</span></a></p>
Fight for the Future<p>As <a href="https://mastodon.fightforthefuture.org/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> continues to supply tools that fuel Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they’re also signing new contracts with U.S. weapons manufacturers + profiting from the mass deportations & surveillance dragnets that are terrorizing communities everywhere: <a href="https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-on-google-clouds-collaboration-with-lockheed-martin-19cd460d22d3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@notechforapartheid</span><span class="invisible">/statement-on-google-clouds-collaboration-with-lockheed-martin-19cd460d22d3</span></a></p>
LM Little<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> Careless People and would say that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> people including the author are not just careless but reckless, lawless, immoral, unethical, soulless, inhuman and dangerous. This is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a>, it 'moves fast and breaks things' which is the mantra of this book. Like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> is a despicable character as are all those who lick his boots. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a></p>
ana 🇵🇸<p>Mensajería instantánea</p><p>De una conversación tecnológica:¿Da WhatsApp (WA) información a la policía?</p><p>El entendimiento general es que WA no da contenido de comunicaciones a la policía.</p><p>Da metadatos de comunicaciones a la policía, y los metadatos que da son sustanciales, ya que cosas como el nombre del grupo, descripción e icono son considerados «metadatos» por WA (no por Signal), e incluso contenidos de su agenda (y las agendas de sus contactos) se consideran metadatos.</p><p>Les defensoras de Signal señalarán que Signal no considera «metadatos» cosas como el nombre de grupo, la descripción o el contenido de la agenda.</p><p>La gente acostumbrada a servicios decentes como los de riseup, autistici/inventati, nadir, sinodminio, disroot o aktivix, siempre preferirán protocolos descentralizados donde cualquiera puede configurar su propio servidor federado, como delta.chat o xmpp; son los mejores.</p><p>Idealmente hospedados por colectivos decentes.</p><p><a href="https://anatemas.noblogs.org/mensajeria-instantanea/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">anatemas.noblogs.org/mensajeri</span><span class="invisible">a-instantanea/</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.es/tags/General" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>General</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/cifrado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cifrado</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/deltachat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deltachat</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/deltachat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deltachat</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/GrandesTecnologicas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandesTecnologicas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/GrandesTenologicasNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandesTenologicasNo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/MensajeriaInstantanea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MensajeriaInstantanea</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/NoBigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoBigTech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/privacidad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacidad</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/tecnologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tecnologia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> <a href="https://masto.es/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xmpp</span></a></p>
Debacle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@miniBill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>miniBill</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@zarel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zarel</span></a></span></p><p>Speaking of Signal: As someone who does not use Android or iOS, Signal is no option for me atm. Even their mediocre desktop application on Linux requires an Android device.</p><p>Also, I don't like to use an app that 100 % depends on both AWS and Google. Signal is practically <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/bigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigTech</span></a>. I prefer <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> hosted services. Just in case 🙂</p>
Jeremy Garniaux<p>Ah cool ! Un mail institutionnel nous apprend que notre Université abandonne Skype ! </p><p>C'est sûrement pour le remplacer par BigBlueButton ou une autre solution lib--</p><p>*"Pour le remplacer par Zoom"*</p><p>Non, rien 🥴 </p><p><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/souverainet%C3%A9num%C3%A9rique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>souveraineténumérique</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Scale… grow… ever larger… always…</p><p>Motherfucking rocket ships baby!</p><p>Who’s gonna be the European Elon Musk? We need one, right?!</p><p>Let’s embrace Big Tech and recreate Silicon Valley in Europe because what could fucking go wrong?</p><p>Instead of say… supporting small, decentralised technology that protects human rights and democracy. No, sorry, we have no money for that sort of crap.</p><p><a href="https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">small-tech.org/about/#small-te</span><span class="invisible">chnology</span></a></p><p>(In our ten years of existence Small Technology Foundation has not received 1 fucking Euro from the EU. And this, so very clearly, explains why. Enjoy your European version of US technofascism when it arrives. You’ll have deserved it fully.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/startups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startups</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114585055099190059" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E</span><span class="invisible">UCommission/114585055099190059</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>EU Orders Apple App Store Changes by June; €500M Fine Stands</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppStore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalMarketsAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechRegulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechRegulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ApplevsEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApplevsEU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppStoreRules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppStoreRules</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/28/eu-orders-apple-app-store-changes-by-june-e500m-fine-stands-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/05/28/eu-or</span><span class="invisible">ders-apple-app-store-changes-by-june-e500m-fine-stands-xcxwbn/</span></a></p>
The Wild<p>Yahoo faces scrutiny. Environmental impact of big tech is under watch. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yahoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yahoo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-officials-gut-25-centers-130009901.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9vdXQucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACqxgOfbLHmX8Qu4Bj4FWWHJTJpYYWTD1XWruOib4XOvR_oO3nj40AYJlYUlYKhbOS36WFJKQTBRFB0bHyc0FuwUs1GWv68mIa4ffPuSEe-SP3c8nT7VEm95J-xyVSGKzeY5HXo1E6frzhSq1gUYZwGmDz8trLRqhWuzovndCuoi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-offici</span><span class="invisible">als-gut-25-centers-130009901.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9vdXQucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACqxgOfbLHmX8Qu4Bj4FWWHJTJpYYWTD1XWruOib4XOvR_oO3nj40AYJlYUlYKhbOS36WFJKQTBRFB0bHyc0FuwUs1GWv68mIa4ffPuSEe-SP3c8nT7VEm95J-xyVSGKzeY5HXo1E6frzhSq1gUYZwGmDz8trLRqhWuzovndCuoi</span></a></p>
Dallin<p>The Fediverse is not perfect. But it's humane. Human. Its decentralized nature puts it light years ahead of any centralized or corporate-controlled social media platform (Bluesky is NOT truly decentralized yet).</p><p>The Fediverse is proof that we are still able - and eager - to interact on the internet free of corporate and government interference and manipulation. That we desire independence and freedom online as much as we do in real life. That human interaction and socialization is infinitely better when it is not monetized.</p><p>We need to protect this. Share this. It's special. It's a haven. And it is an essential tool to help us reverse the damage done to this world by tech bros, billionaires, and politicians who have sold their souls - and tried to sell ours - in exchange for money and power.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedi</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/bigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigTech</span></a></p>
iBestuur<p>‘Het kabinet moet nu investeren in een eigen, open-source Europese <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a>, ook als dat minder geavanceerd is dan de Amerikaanse alternatieven.’ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@SjoerdHartholt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SjoerdHartholt</span></a></span> interviewde hoogleraar Bart Jacobs <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.edu.nl/@bjacobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bjacobs</span></a></span> en IT-expert Durk-Willem van Gullik over digitale onafhankelijkheid. <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/hoe-de-nederlandse-overheid-de-grip-over-haar-ict-terug-kan-krijgen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ibestuur.nl/artikel/hoe-de-ned</span><span class="invisible">erlandse-overheid-de-grip-over-haar-ict-terug-kan-krijgen/</span></a></p>
collective zero<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Ruhrnalist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ruhrnalist</span></a></span> dann schauen wir mal, welche Taten diesen Ankündigungen folgen.<br>Bisher sieht das ungefähr so aus:<br>👉 <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/Bundesregierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bundesregierung</span></a> überweist 1,3 Mrd€ Lizenzkosten an <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a> (2024)<br>👉 <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/Bundeswehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bundeswehr</span></a> entscheidet sich für <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/sap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sap</span></a><br>👉 <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/Bundeswehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bundeswehr</span></a> schließt Vertrag mit <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> (vermutlich wegen <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/sap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sap</span></a>)<br>👉 <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/bsi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsi</span></a> kooperiert mit <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a></p><p>Solange gilt in Anlehnung an "plans don't reduce emissions": Ankündigen bringt noch keine Umsetzung mit sich.</p><p><a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/Deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deutschland</span></a> <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://ipv6.social/tags/DigitaleSouver%C3%A4nit%C3%A4t" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitaleSouveränität</span></a></p>
David Schmidt<p>Europe's growing ambition for digital sovereignty and independence from American suppliers raises questions about how tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon will react.</p><p>These companies may assume they can outlast this movement, underestimating Europe's capacity to rapidly develop its own infrastructure and potentially viewing it as a fleeting trend.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechIndependence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeopoliticsInTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeopoliticsInTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanInnovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalSovereignty</span></a></p>
CEOTECH.IT<p>Apple: o si conforma all'anti-steering UE o altra multa<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiSteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiSteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppStore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommissioneEuropea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommissioneEuropea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conformit%C3%A0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conformità</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalMarketsAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Multa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Multa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Notizie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Notizie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sanzioni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sanzioni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sviluppatori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sviluppatori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tecnologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tecnologia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnioneEuropea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnioneEuropea</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ceotech.it/apple-o-si-conforma-allanti-steering-ue-o-altra-multa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ceotech.it/apple-o-si-conforma</span><span class="invisible">-allanti-steering-ue-o-altra-multa/</span></a></p>
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