From an American in Berlin - thank you! It's incredibly important to be making these arguments from within the US. The EU has a strong digital sovereignty movement, but unfortunately it's counterbalanced by an angsty discourse of "apparently Americans think Big Tech is cool, so we'd better jump on the bandwagon! Otherwise we'll be left behind!" (Not to mention Big Tech lobbying...) So it really helps for Europeans to hear from Americans that it's much better for everyone if the EU invests in a better path. There are interesting new initiatives emerging in the EU now, for instance Save Social ("Saving social media as a democratic force", https://savesocial.eu/en/) with prominent supporters, well-thought-out demands, and a petition with over 220,000 signatures. https://weact.campact.de/petitions/save-social-soziale-netzwerke-als-demokratische-kraft-retten The petition is only in German, but it would be terrific if people in the US could sign and share it as well.
From an American in Berlin - thank you! It's incredibly important to be making these arguments from within the US. The EU has a strong digital sovereignty movement, but unfortunately it's counterbalanced by an angsty discourse of "apparently Americans think Big Tech is cool, so we'd better jump on the bandwagon! Otherwise we'll be left behind!" (Not to mention Big Tech lobbying...) So it really helps for Europeans to hear from Americans that it's much better for everyone if the EU invests in a better path. There are interesting new initiatives emerging in the EU now, for instance Save Social ("Saving social media as a democratic force", https://savesocial.eu/en/) with prominent supporters, well-thought-out demands, and a petition with over 220,000 signatures. https://weact.campact.de/petitions/save-social-soziale-netzwerke-als-demokratische-kraft-retten The petition is only in German, but it would be terrific if people in the US could sign and share it as well.