The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
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#FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11…
UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google aid Israel’s genocide in Gaza by providing AI, cloud, and surveillance technologies.Progressive International

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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •(This is nothing new and not limited to FOSDEM.)
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#institutionalCorruption #BigTech #surveillance #humanRights #democracy #whitewashing #PR #usefulIdiots
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
Aral Balkandaniel lublin
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to daniel lublin • • •@quite Mine, for a start.
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Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of Groningen
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