W seems for Boomers who don't get tech?
🤑 for-profit
🔒 now closed source?
🕵️ may use your data to train AI
🦹♂️ dodgy tech bro on the Board
🪪 needs govt ID verification & face scanning
🤖 40 million existing ATP users are NOT verified
Building EU Big Tech won't save democracy!
h/t @_elena
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The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sendingElena Rossini
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Alice Stollmeyer
in reply to Alice Stollmeyer • • •On the Advisory Board:
Marc Placzek, ex Paypal (co-founded by tech oligarch Peter Thiel), now at Tools for Humanity (co-founded by tech oligarch Sam Altman).
TfH mission is to “create a global ID, a global currency, and an app enabling payment with World's own digital token” with irises scanned to verify one’s identity.
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W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
Elena RossiniJoaquim Homrighausen
in reply to Alice Stollmeyer • • •W seems for people who listen to the wrong people and never engage brain.
What's wrong with Mastodon/GoToSocial/etc? 🤔
All they had to do was to spin up a few instances, and they would have taken a huge step in actually behaving like they claim the want to.
(Which of course they don't, they're politicians 😑)
@AliceStollmeyer @_elena
#eupol #foss #oss #opensource #transparency #privacy #gdpr #privacymatters #dataprotection
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Joaquim Homrighausen • • •@joho they want top down CONTROL and probably secretly despise truly decentralized systems
@AliceStollmeyer
Joaquim Homrighausen
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •💯
Yes, so eventually EU citizens will have to create yet another grassroot level moment to escape both the US Cloud and the EU Politicians 😊
Well isn't that special ... 🤔
@AliceStollmeyer
#eupol #eu #europe