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[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What we need to do is combat corruption by the oligarchs, and the algorithms; and to increase education financing.

[โ€“] linule@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And develop our own software importantly

We have most of it already. We just need to implement and use it. I'm hosting my stuff myself, but I don't think I'll do it for my friends. We need companies that take the software and make services available.

[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

This โ€œplanโ€ by big tech is beginning to backfire. (Eg the French police in the twitter office in Paris today). The Europeans are getting fed up with USA companies, Facebook is a democracy-breaker, google doesnโ€™t care about data privacyโ€ฆ

[โ€“] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Who knew panic-deregulating for fear of falling behind on AI developement was a bad idea.