Structural Integrity

Criticising the Commission's move to W Social is preaching to the choir here, but still nice to see a critical article in Tech Policy Press: https://www.techpolicy.press/europes-w-social-bet-tests-its-vision-of-digital-sovereignty/

@alineblankertz@indieweb.social contributed a quote: "Aline Blankertz, co-founder of the digital-policy collective Structural Integrity, similarly added that the Commission’s pick of W Social “illustrates the Commission's interpretation of sovereignty: European companies should imitate the principles of US companies instead of building on principles that structurally limit dependencies.”"

Of course, there is much more to say about this - @malteengeler@legal.social is just working on a blog post about it...stay tuned!

Big news 🙌

We are very happy to be part of a group that organises a new event series in Berlin: @noderesist@indieweb.social. The series will start on 30 September. We pick up where the Cables of Resistance conference ended, open the room to continue debates that started at the conference, go deeper and get organised. You can find all details on our blog and on the website:

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/nodes-of-resistance-building-a-movement-against-big-tech/

https://noderesist.de

Join, discuss, get organised. And for now: Spread the word!

The conference manifesto has also been revised and is now available as a version 2.0:

https://de.indymedia.org/node/855763

Wir wollen Immoscout24 vergesellschaften.

Wir sind Teil einer Gruppe, die dazu arbeitet, die Vermittlung von Wohnraum im Gemeinwohl zu gestalten statt dabei zuzusehen, wie eine Monopolplattform die Wohnungskrise verschärft.

Im Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk Kultur erklärt @alineblankertz@indieweb.social ab Minute 13:07, was das heißt und wie das geht.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/tiktok-verkauf-in-den-usa-grosse-aenderung-mit-wenig-wirkung-100.html

The AfD, a German extreme right party, showed their true colours again, this time in yesterday‘s hearing with @alineblankertz@indieweb.social at the Digital Committee of the German parliament.

The hearing dealt with a German law that complements the EU Data Governance Act. But instead of debating that law, the AfD revealed how it intends to use data for their nationalist, divisive agenda.

The AfD called for a detailed public database on individuals who have become German citizens in order to promote their völkisch, racist worldview and to target the weakest of society.

They misuse the democratic institution of a public hearing to make suggestive, inflammatory statements against experts. This proves once more that there is no such thing as neutral policy areas: Digital policy must be anti-fascist and all civil society must stand together.

The full hearing (in German) can be found here: https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2024/kw46-pa-digitales-governance-1026488

More on anti-fascist digital policy in our guest articles with @netzpolitik_org@mastodon.cloud:

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/umgang-mit-der-afd-digitalpolitik-muss-teil-der-brandmauer-sein/

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/progressive-digitalpolitik-antifaschistische-netzpolitik-muss-antikapitalistisch-sein/

Wow, das war toll. Dank der Einladung von @vergesellschaftetbayern@climatejustice.social konnten wir heute in Nürnberg unser Projekt rund um die Vergesellschaftung digitaler Plattformen am Beispiel von Immoscout24 vorstellen. Wir freuen uns sehr über das Interesse und über die engagierte Diskussion im Nachgang . Vergesellschaftung ist ein zentrales Thema linker Digitalpolitik und es ist ermutigend zu sehen, wie groß das Echo dafür ist.
#Redscout24

Wir freuen uns, dass @alineblankertz@indieweb.social am 28. Januar als Sachverständige auch in den neuen Digitalausschuss eingeladen ist, um das deutsche Daten-Governance-Gesetz zu kommentieren.

Positiv zu erwähnen ist, dass die AfD weiterhin keine Sachverständigen zu finden scheint, die ihrer Einladung folgen wollen.

https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/1135800/sachverstaendigenliste-DGG.pdf

Our co-founder @alineblankertz@indieweb.social was invited to speak with @parismarx@mastodon.online from "Tech Wont Save Us" about ending dependence on Big Tech companies and how this is currently playing out in Europe.

We are happy to share a critical perspective with such a wide international audience and explain what a more structurally different, i.e. internationalist response could encompass.

Listen now:

https://techwontsave.us/episode/271_can_europe_end_its_dependence_on_us_tech_w_aline_blankertz

About one year ago we (@alineblankertz@indieweb.social and @malteengeler@legal.social ) started with @structural_integrity@kolektiva.social, the thought collective working on radically needs-based digital policy.

We have since appeared in parliament, conferences, academic journals and published on our blog.

We are not (yet!) the Mont Pelerin Society of the left - challenging the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism takes time, effort and the willingness to resist and reinvent.

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/

🎉 Our website is live!

You now find all you need to know about:

- Who Structural Integrity is and what we do
- Our manifesto
- Our blog with up-to-date commentary on digital policy

Check out https://www.structural-integrity.eu and follow us here, on LinkedIn or Instagram.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/structural-integrity-eu

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/structural_integrity_ngo

@kate@social.treehouse.systems Der Link ist richtig. Es geht ab Minute 13 nicht mehr um Tiktok, sondern um Immoscout24.

We are Structural Integrity, a EU-based collective, co-founded by @alineblankertz@indieweb.social and @malteengeler@legal.social.

We gather legal, political and economic expertise for radically needs-based digital policy and data regulation.

We are just getting things started, so follow us for updates ✨

Irgendwann hat unser Kollektiv vielleicht einen eigenen physischen Space. Die Deko dafür ist jedenfalls schon da 😍
#antifascistdigitalpolicy

"True solidarity can only be universal."

We are happy to share v1.0 of our manifesto for radically needs-based digital policy. More content to follow soon.

This is Structural Integrity ✨

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass @D64eV@d-64.social uns zur D64-Superklausur am 29.11. eingeladen hat.

Dort werden wir mit Saskia Esken die Themen „Faschismussichere Digitalpolitik" und "Datenpolitik und die Zukunft der digitalen Gesellschaft" so zusammenbringen, wie sie zusammen gehören.

https://d-64.org/programmankuendigung-fuer-die-d64-superklausur-2024-saskia-esken-aline-blankertz-und-malte-engeler-bei-der-d64-fishbowl-am-freitagabend/

@superrr@social.tchncs.de @VillageOneCoop@toot.village.one 🤝👌

„We must turn our energies away from privacy, towards the rejection of corporate control and state policing over our Internet lives. We call for collectivized data, socialized data processing facilities under democratic control and the decriminalization of poverty, sexuality and race.“

We are happy that "Abolish Privacy" has been published, an international collaboration that @malteengeler@legal.social contributed to.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13671/11977

New post: @malteengeler@legal.social writes about intentional ineffectiveness as bureaucratic anti-fascism.

Examining the example of Germany centralising it's data protection supervision at the federal level he examines how capitalism and far-right ideologies are united in their contempt for checks and balances in the name of effectiveness and innovation.

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/intentional-ineffectiveness-as-bureaucratic-anti-fascism/

New post: Read about how capitalism shaped contemporary "AI" and why any post-capitalist project needs to be very aware of the ideological foundation of "AI".

Still, vivid pictures of what a world after capitalism could look like are the fuel that keep the spark alive. And these pictures cannot be created without those whose hearts and imagination is currently taken up by the hype around “AI”. We need their enthusiasm to construct and invent the future.

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/is-there-a-need-for-ai-after-capitalism/

The legal debate preemptively surrenders to the economic narratives and interests of the AI and data economy. Whether AI is the technology of the future and - even more importantly - whether this future is desirable at all no longer forms part of the debate."

Our co-founder @malteengeler@legal.social wrote the editorial for the recent issue of German legal paper "KI & Recht".

Read the whole editorial (in German) here 👇

https://rsw.beck.de/zeitschriften/kir/editorial/2024/09/20/neuer-raum-f%C3%BCr-transformative-l%C3%B6sungen

Wir freuen uns, falls die mention gefixt würde 👋🤗