Google is a surveillance capitalist. It is a factory farm that extracts from and exploits people. Why do you want to create a “Google of Europe?” Why do you want Europe to capitulate to Silicon Valley’s digital imperialism and become its taxpayer-paid R&D department? (1/N)https://twitter.com/AchimMuellers/status/1000989525391413248 …
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Silicon Valkey’s model of technology (surveillance capitalism) is not the only way to fund and build technology. It’s just one very toxic way to do so. Let’s do better in the EU. We can, should, and must fund ethical tech from the commons for the common good. (End)
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Congratulations - you just described the EU's funding model
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Thanks – but I described the funding model the EU should be using for technology, not the one it is. Today, we fund startups. If they fail, the EU taxpayer foots the bill. If they succeed, they are bought by Silicon Valley and become part of the surveillance machine.
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So, within our current capitulation to Silicon Valley’s digital imperialism, the EU functions as a taxpayer-supported free research & development development for Silicon Valley. We need far better use of our funds—to invest in a healthy commons not in the tragedy of the commons.
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