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    Supera la tua X: un piano europeo per sfuggire alla tecnologia americana

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    1. nimicdoareu on

      * Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe’s growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms.
      * Trump rarely hesitates to weaponise technological dependencies or attack the EU’s digital rules. A change of president in the future is unlikely to alter these dynamics.
      * The EU should build an independent “stack” of technologies to shield itself from other powers weaponising tech against it. Building this “EuroStack” must begin where such risks are greatest, namely in the domains of space, chips, cloud computing and AI.
      * The EU does not need to construct an entirely independent new tech ecosystem to strengthen its defences. Instead, it needs to build “just enough” capabilities in these key areas to extricate itself from its dependencies.
      * American backlash against this effort is likely. But Europeans can make strategic concessions where necessary while keeping their eyes fixed on the sovereignty prize.

    3. Fastluck83 on

      Cool. I am a developer, the plan has my full support, where should I apply and when do we start?

      Oh, and can I work from home? 😉

      Seriously though, I would love to have European alternatives to American tech.

    5. iuuznxr on

      Maybe Europe could have a social media alternative if the EU hadn’t allowed lobbyists to crank up copyright to the max. Who wants to start a platform when a user posting an image or a few words from a news article (just the headline even) or a link to another site gets you in hot water…

    6. vast-pear-crayfish on

      we already have alternatives to everything but they arent really popular;

      i personally think the problem is EU officials not endorsing and/or (financially or otherwise) supporting these alternatives;

      can petitions be started over this? we would need to act fast

    7. dopaminedune on

      You’re under the assumption that EU based tech companies will **not** suffer from the draconian EU Digital Laws and policies.

      If you can fix that assumption, then you can fix everything that is a problem with EU.

    8. No_Conversation_9325 on

      Ah the irony… in the link, right to his name… there is a link to his X account!

      Seriously though, I personally don’t know any person still using X, except for our politicians.

    9. KnitterOfKnots on

      I do wonder whether non-US social media platforms have been deliberately blocked. After all, Russia and (especially) China have well established domestic platforms, so it can’t be that hard to do.

    10. Any-Original-6113 on

      As many commenters here have noted, it’s not enough to simply create an app that replicates (perhaps slightly better) X or American messengers. User inertia is significant, and without a compelling reason, people will stick with what they know.

      There are essentially only two paths: one simple, the other difficult.

      Let’s start with the difficult one:
      It requires building a service that’s light on phone resources,feature-rich, with an intuitive interface and consistent improvements.
      Unfortunately,this path demands real innovation, is prone to missteps, takes considerable time, and requires a massive marketing push.

      The simple method is undemocratic and authoritarian.
      It involves crippling the functionality of the”rival messenger”: restricting video calls and file sharing, throttling its speed, making installation difficult, imposing extra verification steps for each login, and so on.
      This is precisely the path taken by China and Russia.

      Which path will Europe choose? The undemocratic one with a guaranteed outcome (users locked into European IT products), or the slow, uncertain road of genuine competition?

    11. Happy_Bread_1 on

      I’m saying it over and over again. Segregating parts of the world is not the end goal we want either. Social media/ info should be able to be easily shared/ viewed by every people in the world. Let’s not become a China either. The goal is not to have an European platform, but have an actual decentralized platform imo.

    12. Boilem on

      We need to shift user tech to OSS alternatives yesterday!

      Google and Microsoft combined have the ability to cripple most devices in the EU, should they wish to. With the flick of a switch you lose your phone(Android), your gateway to the internet(Google), most email accounts(Gmail, Outlook), computers(Windows) and most of your office workers(Office suite).

      Nevermind the other services they offer, youtube, azure, authentication apps, github, cloud platform, the ability to monetize on the internet(google ads)… There already are alternatives to most of these.

    13. Various_Weather2013 on

      This is the way. American media comes with their leverage. They seek to destabilize the EU and are security threats. Independence from American technology is the biggest security issue facing the EU & UK Currently

    14. ScepticalEconomist on

      If you are european and are still on X I don’t know what to tell you

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