Much of the social media infrastructure that shapes political discourse today is privately controlled, American-based, and built on an absolutist interpretation of free speech that the rest of the world – including the European Union – neither shares nor benefits from.
As revealed in reports like Semafor’s coverage of group chats that changed American politics, the consolidation of power in opaque, privately owned digital spaces has profound consequences not only within the U.S., but globally…
Instead of teaching iOS, Android and Windows users in schools, we could save millions and tech on Linux. More children learning = more growing up and using Linux.
Get FOSS into schools ahead of the big tech.
not us! We’re busy spending millions to put copilot in the offices of public service employees! And we’re receiving “training” and encouragement to use it! (I work in the maltese govt’s datacenter, ffs)
we could like continue to foster FOSS?
In my experience most people dont even know FOSS exists. Hell, I’ve asked several coworkers and friends if they know what “open source” is and they just look at me confused. All of them are shocked to learn there’s free software just out there waiting to be enjoyed
It’s been an option for a while now and incredibly dumb politicians don’t see beyond X, Facebook and Instagram.
Can’t wait for this to actually happen (it won’t) and dusty bureaucrats becoming admins of social media.
“I am afraid your pig_poop_balls.jpg is off topic and thus it’s gotta be deleted from EuroMeta.”
