Luca Alloatti

The European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu) posted this morning about protecting young Europeans in "digital spaces."

Meanwhile commission.europa.eu runs on Amazon CloudFront, with a TLS certificate issued by Amazon, exposing every visitor to foreign data collection (CLOUD Act, FISA 702).

Full legal breakdown in my reply:
https://mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luca/116430825897641638

Max Schrems and @noybeu@mastodon.social have done the legal heavy lifting on why US servers in the EU don't fix this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II

#DigitalSovereignty

@EUCommission

Thanks for being here.

Being in the Fediverse is a courageous and healthy decision because:

1. the Fediverse is open to real criticism, with no algorithms to dampen it
2. you can't buy followers, ads or amplification

That's a step in the right direction.

Next you may:

• Put the Mastodon icon on commission.europa.eu (ideally in first position before X and FB)
• Encourage/mandate Fediverse presence across all PAs

Any of these would be a real anniversary gift to the Fediverse.

@EUCommission

Europe stands united indeed.

United also to ignore:

• The Israeli genocide in #Gaza
• The illegal US-Israeli attack on #Iran

@EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu

"EU Open Source Strategy" - watch the numbers:

• the Chips Act 2.0 text contains zero mentions of open-source. The term "open foundry" means "production capacity [open] to unrelated undertakings".

• the Chips Act 2.0 Annex contains zero mentions of open-silicon, zero mentions of open PDK, two mentions of open-source EDA (next to onboarding "major EDA tool providers").

Weren't there better options at a fraction of the budget? See F-Si roadmap: https://wiki.f-si.org/images/1/19/Recommendations_and_roadmap_open_silicon_2023_11_03.pdf

What is wrong with @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ?

#VonDerLeyen stopped a ready-to-issue billion-euro fine against Google:

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-von-der-leyen-sendet-ein-fatales-signal-an-big-tech/ -by @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de

Years of work sabotaged right at the top. We have a cancer at the heart of Europe!

If this is what the EC truly wants, why would anyone believe its rhetoric on the #ChipsAct and chip independence?

Our experience fits the same pattern. We had an EU project to promote open hardware, but we felt boycotted at every corner:
https://wiki.f-si.it/index.php?title=GoIT_Project

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The reason Israel can get away with every international law violation is not failure of international law. It is the failure of our countries (Italy, Germany, most of the EU) which have decided non-enforcement.

If Italy (or other countries) decided to escort the Sumud Flotilla with a military ship, it is nearly certain that the remaining #Sumud would reach its destination, but #Meloni CANNOT do that -which is very telling about the level of corruption of our system. ...

Tempo di scendere in piazza!!!

#Gaza #Flotilla