Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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Belgian Publishing Xperience
Interesting: call for Belgian advertisers to leave big tech and invest in national ‘old’ media
www.bpxmedia.be
12.08.2025 07:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Achter de macht van big tech | Rathenau Instituut
Er worden steeds meer zorgen geuit in de journalistiek, politiek en de wetenschap over de macht van big tech-bedrijven en hun toenemende invloed op de samenleving. In het publieke, politieke en wetens...
Belangrijk rapport van Rathenau Instituut, CC alle politieke partijen > De samenleving dreigt door de digitale afhankelijkheid van grote tech bedrijven de regie te verliezen over kernprocessen in onderwijs, zorg of overheidsdienstverlening #techcoup ↘️ www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...
09.07.2025 14:27 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
👑️How can we regain #DigitalSovereignty?
IIPP's @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, @cedricdurand.bsky.social , Edemilson Paraná, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & @parismarx.com have contributed to a recent paper outlining key proposals for enhanced digital sovereignty.
✍️Read it here: buff.ly/gQ6z2q6
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Its clear @_elena is the first genuine superstar of the Fediverse?
#pubconf2025
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Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
This week many things are coming together with the open access of our GDS book. Our 1st chapter on how to decentralize platform power is the basis of my new course at Erasmus University and my research presented at ECREA Rotterdam and AoIR in Bremen on this topic.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Today, you can find us at the @ecreacomdem.bsky.social Automating Democracy conference in Rotterdam! 👇👇
📍 11:45 – 13:00 Parallel panel 2
🎯 AI in Public Communication: Governance and Accountability Mechanisms for Democratic Control
🔗 diacomet.eu/event/automa...
22.05.2025 08:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🤔 Who should control social media?
Should it be a public good, a private product, or something else?
This week, a special crossover newsletter with Elle Griffin and her newsletter, The Elysian. We wrestle with a complicated topic: government control of social media.
What’s best, and what might actually work? Check our back and forth, debate-style essay and then weigh in with your own opinion!
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Samen bouwen aan het PeerTube-videoplatform | SIDN fonds
PublicSpaces wil het met PeerTube Spaces voor organisaties eenvoudiger maken hun eigen PeerTube-kanaal op te zetten. SIDN fonds steunt het initiatief.
In the Netherlands, PublicSpaces is setting up a ‘public’ decentralized alternative for YouTube.
What type of organization should be the legal structure behind this ‘public’ platform?
I explore that now.
www.sidnfonds.nl/nieuws/samen...
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📚 online misogyny, platform governance, content moderation, domestic violence
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Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Law prof, working to make tech more fair. Future Fellow @ QUT Digital Media Research Centre; Chief Investigator @admscentre.org.au; Member @ Oversight Board.
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https://nic.suzor.net
Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
Horizon EU project #Diacomet advancing ethical and accountable communication. #DialogueExpandsHorizons. ID: 101094816.
🔗 https://diacomet.eu/
Postdoc researcher & adjunct prof. Sapienza University/University of L'Aquila • @yecrea.bsky.social rep Comm&Dem section • 🎓IT🏳️🌈 • all things digital activism, social media, & identity 🤳💻
https://linktr.ee/bussolettiar
ECREA section promoting thought-provoking research on the dynamic relationship between #media, #communication and #democracy 👇https://t.co/7NN8ijQSh8
Editor-at-large at The Verge. I could eat.
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.