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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 27

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Achim J. Müllers

      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 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Achim J. Müllers @AchimMuellers
      France, Germany push for EU funding for technology start-ups https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-innovation/france-germany-push-for-eu-funding-for-technology-start-ups-idUKKCN1IS0RC …
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    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 30

      Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

      To Californians/Americans chiming in on this to regurgitate the gospel of Silicon Valley: just stop. It’s not that we don’t understand it; we do only too well & strongly disagree. This isn’t about you. It’s about us, in the EU, trying to avoid your imperialism. Stay in your lane.https://twitter.com/aral/status/1000991960839217152 …

      Aral Balkan added,

      Aral Balkan @aral
      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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    3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 30

      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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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 30

      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.

      12:59 AM - 30 May 2018
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        2. Co-op Source‏ @coopsource May 30
          Replying to @aral

          It shouldn’t matter where we are from because we need as many people rowing in the same direction as possible. Geographical filters can be arbitrary. I’m in Northern California (formerly from SF) doing my part. Others are doing the same in the Bay Area & beyond. 👍🏽 #coops

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        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral May 30
          Replying to @coopsource

          Indeed. And best of luck. What I’m saying is that Europe is not the US. It has a fundamentally different view on privacy and cultural history and thus we *might* have a (tiny) chance to implement a structurally different system *starting* here, but interoperable and free/open. 🤞

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        1. Tim Reutemann‏ @ReutemannTim May 30
          Replying to @aral

          Don't count out Taiwan just yet :)

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