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1. Dave Troy :toad: (davetroy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:13 JST Dave Troy :toad:

   European countries should simply either block or tax the parasitic US big tech companies that insist on violating their laws and roiling their internal affairs. Promote local competition. You don’t need these toxic, retrograde companies.

   • crazyeddie (crazyeddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:08 JST crazyeddie

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     • Paul Sutton
     • Toni Aittoniemi

     @zleap @gimulnautti @davetroy For now. If all of Europe and everyone else capitulate it will be a lot less possible to make a move like Brazil did.

   • Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:11 JST Paul Sutton

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     • Toni Aittoniemi

     @gimulnautti @davetroy

     Agreed, the ban was short but shifted things to the side of Brazil so they were calling the shots, it proves it can be done

   • Toni Aittoniemi (gimulnautti@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:12 JST Toni Aittoniemi

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     @davetroy Be like Brazil. Ban X. Musk shut up about it immediately, hasn’t said a word about them since.

   • CM Thiede (cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:55 JST CM Thiede

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     • Paul Sutton
     • Toni Aittoniemi
     • crazyeddie

     @gimulnautti @crazyeddie @zleap @davetroy this stuff is all getting too crazy and a good place to insert a recommendation for this book read

     https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/113489473420052381

     It's all coming down to the build out of "smart" cities. Look into the players building Brazil's. Them choosing not to allow Xsquawk in their country won't mean they won't allow home grown TruthBrazil (made it up) to prosper without major competition.

     Now that the price for compute has come down drastically as well as solar for power, the only thing people can do to battle the machines (blocs) controlling the machines, is if everyone turns off all their networked crap as a "whole," as if that would ever happen voluntarily, or the device that would give them simple transmit/receive be manufactured at hyperscale so anyone wanting to connect to the public at large can do so without a fascist filter. It can be built. Plenty on this planet live that way already. It's a matter of getting that ability into the hands of everyone, and fast. This is strictly for bouncing around in ActivityPub land, mind you, not everywhere in the digiverse! We still need to leave that playground for the hackers. #gibberish but not really.

   • Toni Aittoniemi (gimulnautti@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:33:56 JST Toni Aittoniemi

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     • Paul Sutton
     • crazyeddie

     @crazyeddie @zleap @davetroy Europe needs to funnel tax euros to development and establishment of protocols, to provide a firm ground for homegrown social media startups to grow from.

     Unfortunately #eu politicians can't get their head around the fact that social media can look different than Facebook or Xitter.

     This is a huge moment. And by investing in open-source backbones & protocols European digital souvereignty could be guaranteed.

     But it needs to be built, not falling from US heavens.