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As a European I'd like to see my compatriots to wake up that having zero alternatives to US companies is pretty unhealty. For smartphone OSes the alternatives a
by usr1106 3y ago
As a European I'd like to see my compatriots to wake up that having zero alternatives to US companies is pretty unhealty. For smartphone OSes the alternatives are not realistic for 99.9%. For PCs it's probably 95%.
We live in a free world (which I don't always notice in US legislation), so I am not asking for laws to forbid it. But just don't use products of companies not showing respect for our data protection standards located in a country the government of which sees no limititations regarding spying on foreigners.
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- ZunarJ5 3y agoFunny you should say that, because the EU is a major funder of Federated platforms like Mastodon ... https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/techdispatch/2022-07-26-techdispatch-12022-federated-social-media-platforms_en https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publicat...
- usr1106 3y agoEU might fund it and I have an account. But as long as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc are not mandated to federate and 99% of European users stay in the closed systems it does not solve the problem.