“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU.
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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent expose on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent expose on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
@aral thank you again for your EXCELLENT analysis Aral!
BTW did you see this?
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@aral thank you again for your EXCELLENT analysis Aral!
BTW did you see this?
@_elena Clueless (corrupt?) fools.
Also: my pleasure. Thank you for your excellent exposés.
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@_elena Clueless (corrupt?) fools.
Also: my pleasure. Thank you for your excellent exposés.
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@_elena Clueless (corrupt?) fools.
Also: my pleasure. Thank you for your excellent exposés.
@aral Thanks Aral. I wish I didn't have to write them, but there are literally ZERO journalists investigating W 🥲
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@aral Thanks Aral. I wish I didn't have to write them, but there are literally ZERO journalists investigating W 🥲
@_elena “Journalists”
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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent expose on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
What fucks me the most about this is that Mastodon (the company) is a fucking german company.
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I don't know if all of us are Gen X or early Millenials, but I suspect we are and if so we all lived through an era in Europe where the Government had direct overall control of all communications via the PTT (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) administration - I think a lot of European leaders want to go back to those days (but without renationalising the telecoms companies, which would at least have /some/ benefits if they concentrated on the infrastructure which is still mostly a monopoly everywhere)
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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent expose on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
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@aral thank you again for your EXCELLENT analysis Aral!
BTW did you see this?
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