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Interview: "Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy"

"A small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires & venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — & that they should be governing in its place."

"Their fringe ideologies [are now] in the White House." DOGE was one, cutting USAID, another.

“They have so much money, they can turn these weird ideas into policy & cause tremendous damage.”

~Gil Duran

npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-59272…

#USPol #EUPol #BigTech #news #democracy .



The problem is real, no denying that. But doesn't this approach risk turning Loops, or any other #Fediverse project adopting this approach, into effectively a centralised platform?

We're already seeing this with other platforms, with Fediverse newcomers just creating accounts on flagship servers. And we can't blame them, after decades of conditioning by #BigTech.

Strangely enough, people are not unfamiliar with decentralised services: email, mobile phones, ISPs, energy suppiiers, to name but a few examples.

So there must be a way to educate, rather than 'dumbing down' users by making decisions for them.

Education is always better.


Lesetipp: "Datensouveränität im CRM - Warum Datenkontrolle zum strategischen Wettbewerbsvorteil wird"

"Die BSI Customer Suite ist die einzige holistische CRM- und CX-Lösung aus Europa, die AI tief integriert und gleichzeitig Datenschutz, Souveränität und Flexibilität garantiert."

bsi-software.com/de/blog/daten…

#bsi #CustomerDataPlatform #CRM #CRMSoftware #CustomerData #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #DitigalSovereignty #SovereignByDesign #DigitalEurope #DigitaleAutonomie #BigTechAlternatives #BigTech




You know what sucks?

The #bubble is going to burst and the #AI #Techbros are going to believe (or pretend) that it's the #economy that stopped their previous #singularity .

The singularity is an impossible fantasy. All the CEOs of #BigTech are marching to the beat of that drum.


FYI Digital Independence Day's "Digital Switch Recipes" is a regularly updated list of replacements for various #BigTech products:

di.day/en/digital-switch-recip…

There's even an RSS feed:
di.day/en/digital-switch-recip…

Looks useful and complementary to #OptOutProject by @TheBulletin and @janet? Though I wish there's a way to filter for only #OpenSource tools.

Any other similarly useful resources??

#nobigTech #enshittification


Google hat den Lautsprecher in deiner Küche umgebaut, ohne dich zu fragen

Über Nacht vom Nachrichtengerät zur Gemini-Werbefläche


Der Lautsprecher in der Küche spielt seit dem Update KI-Zusammenfassungen statt der eingestellten Nachrichtenquelle. Die App-Einstellung lügt. Niemand hat etwas angeklickt. Das ist kein Bug – das ist die Erinnerung daran, dass du beim Kauf nie die Funktion erworben hast, sondern nur die Erlaubnis, sie vorläufig zu nutzen. Google entscheidet, was dein Gerät macht. Und wenn Google findet, dass dein Lautsprecher jetzt Gemini bewerben soll, dann tut er das. Reden wir drüber!

chrislo.de/blog/2026-08-05-08-…

#chrislo #digitaleunabhängigkeit #Google #GoogleHome #Gemini #SmartHome #BigTech #Datenschutz #Privacy #Überwachung #KI #AI


The poll "surveyed 4,505 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of 2 percentage points in either direction."

"A bipartisan majority of Americans support more government rules for how ​social media companies conduct business, including a requirement of age-verification tools to keep younger children off social media."

Reuters: Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds reuters.com/world/three-five-a… @Reuters #socialmedia #BigTech #regulation


Unfocused tax cuts deplete municipal budgets while Big Tech extracts profits with minimal local tax burden.
​Hamburg Mayor Tschentscher is right: a dedicated Digital Tax is vital to balance local public investment with global tech revenue.
​#TaxPolicy #BigTech #DigitalTax #Germany #Economics




🚨 New pod

Bruce chats with Alex Moore (Open Web Advocacy) about why your iPhone still can't run real web apps, and the five year fight to change that.

Tune in here or on your favorite podcast platform: vivaldi.com/blog/alex-moore-op…

#OpenWeb #BigTech #Apple #PWA #DMA