Writer and environmental journalist @ Sentient, The Guardian, Hakai etc
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Jack McGovan
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While the EU launched its Tech Sovereignty Package last week, earlier this month, there's nothing binding in it that would force the move away from US tech.
Proponents of open source instead want more political courage and stronger investments.
Not everywhere is the same. In Berlin, the local government published an open source strategy that is unlikely to be implemented due to lack of political will.
Civil initiatives, who say the public need to show they want open source alternatives, are left to fill in the gap.
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If anything was going to make me a doomer, it would be the failure of the progressive left to leave X in the face of this stuff.
It genuinely feels like progressive public intellectuals think their hot takes and pithy tweets are more powerful than a billionaire-backed misinformation algorithm.
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The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is one major success, where 80 percent of workstations in public administration have been shifted to Libre Office, an open source alternative to Microsoft.
Millions have been saved in fees and reinvested back into the local open source ecosystem.
Part of the reason for the success there is down to the advocacy of digital minister Dirk Schrödter, a supportive cabinet and a healthy open source ecosystem.
However, the size also matters: local governments are big enough to have an impact, while still being small enough to be agile.
There's been a lot of talk about digital independence from US tech in Europe since Trump's sanctions of the ICC, but it seems to be local municipalities who are making the biggest strides to shift away – with civil initiatives left to fill the gaps in places with little political will.
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Some municipalities are moving quickly to make Europe digitally independent from US tech, but civil initiatives are left to fill in the gaps where there is little political will.
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
