It's Time for the EU to Build Its Own Tech - and Regulate Big Tech's Algorithms
brusselsmorning.com
Social media platforms, mostly U.S.-based, drive global politics under a free speech model the EU and others neither share nor benefit from.

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…

https://brusselsmorning.com/its-time-for-the-eu-to-build-its-own-tech-and-regulate-big-techs-algorithms/75782/

  • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    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.”

  • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    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.