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This was definitely NOT on my bingo card for this year:
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen taking a moment between G7 meetings to promote the launch of the closed-source, for-profit network #WSocial.
I fear this may be a harbinger of things to come: MANDATORY AGE VERIFICATION for social media across Europe. I hope I'm wrong on this.
@_elena @EUCommission @aral
Whoo-hoo! I just searched for "is wsocial federated with bluesky" on No AI DDG and your blog post regarding Wsocial and how the company is organised came up second in the list of results.
@_elena @aral I'm recently digging in the topic. Did anyone already asked @EUCommission the question why it's members are promoting closed-source Big-Tech-wannabe-company platform? Or maybe @EUCommission already responded somewhere?
@_elena
And there's more sad news on this trap
@EUCommission @aral
@rysiek
@_elena
*dons tin foil hat*
When something this fishy is going on you can be sure that a lot of money is changing hands and a "not-for-public-knowledge" agenda is being implemented behind the scenes.
IMO the answers to your top 3 questions are probably something like:
1) shhh of course but I won't acknowledge that to you.
2) irrelevant--the image of being "the"
European alternative is the important thing, and besides (shhh) some components need to be hosted in places where certain inconvenient EU privacy laws don't apply, and
3) Because we wouldn't be able to manipulate it or any other open source platform to our goals.
This was definitely NOT on my bingo card for this year:
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen taking a moment between G7 meetings to promote the launch of the closed-source, for-profit network #WSocial.
I fear this may be a harbinger of things to come: MANDATORY AGE VERIFICATION for social media across Europe. I hope I'm wrong on this.
