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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The responses to this thread are very elucidating. Almost exclusively (with a couple of lovely exceptions to the latter; you know who you are and I love you): * Folks in Europe: enthusiastic support * Folks in California/US: patronising/sarcastic dismissal/defeatism
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If anywhere we have a chance to veer away from surveillance capitalism to build ethical technological infrastructure that protects personhood and nurtures a healthy commons, it’s going to be in the EU. That’s a very big if and cannot happen without a fundamental shift in policy.
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