The European Commission has registered a new Citizen Initiative, calling for a European social media platform.
In detail: The initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislative act, “a public social media platform at the European level”. That "would form an alternative to the current platforms and work as a service for the society, be funded by the society and be under its oversight”.
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#EU #SocialMedia #Mastodon #SocialMedia
Commission registers European Citizens\' Initiative calling for a European social media platform
Today, the European Commission has registered a European Citizens\' Initiative (ECI), entitled ‘European Public Social Network\'.\nThe initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legislativEuropean Commission - European Commission
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Hannah Grace
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Slightly more information about this #citizenInitiative here for a #European #SocialMedia here: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…
IF This reaches the required amount of signatures it will have to be examined by the European Commission. What conclusion the commission will come to I cannot predict, but it may consider the option of building on existing infrastructure *cough* #mastodon *cough* …
These processes take quite a long time, but I’ll keep updating here ;)
Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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