Post #3340029
2026-06-17 18:09 UTC
Replies (18)
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@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 2026-06-17 18:15
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social my take on it is that the politicians want to control the means by which people can be social, because that provides them with immense power: https://bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social/post/3moilbymuyc2y
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@SteveFoerster@social.vivaldi.net 2026-06-17 19:19
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social Between this and that awful bill in the Canadian parliament, it's a crappy time for Internet freedom.
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@pixx@merveilles.town 2026-06-17 19:55
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social @golemwire None of this should be a surprise to anyone. It's the European Commission lol.
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@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social 2026-06-17 20:09
@andypiper@macaw.social The European Commission just reflexively hates tech. They're often accidentally right because big tech sucks ass, but I wish people would stop pretending they're doing it on purpose or with some morals in mind.
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@skyblitz@kanoa.de 2026-06-17 20:52
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social and 40M user are not verified. use eurosky if you really need it.
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@dibi58@this.mouse.rocks 2026-06-17 21:05
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social under the impression the eu suffers of stockholm syndrome ...
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@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world 2026-06-17 21:08
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social I really hate to tell you I told you so but I did
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-06-17 21:38
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social If European bureaucrats were driving in a parking manouvre, the car would incredibly capsize twice, unfathomably flatten the spare wheel of anyone around, burn the traffic lights and erase the pedestrian crossings.
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@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie 2026-06-17 21:40
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social Maybe they love the fash
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@phillycodehound@indieweb.social 2026-06-17 21:54
@andypiper@macaw.social Brilliant coverage and reporting @_elena@mastodon.social
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@wiredfire@mstdn.social 2026-06-17 21:59
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social I’m guessing it’s no coincidence the UK is going down the same dark path. Collusion and forces at play hidden from view. This is all horrible.
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@Walruths@mastodon.social 2026-06-17 22:47
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social Turns out the only thing the EU dislikes about US social media policy is that they don't own it themselves. They're just fine with spying if it's their eyes doing it.
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@gemmy@mastodon.social 2026-06-17 22:55
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social "Dor de cotovelo"
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@fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social 2026-06-18 00:22
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social Hopefully some are, in fact, just confused; but I'm not sure that this really runs contrary to their values. The whole 'age verification' thing, even when not just an excuse to check IDs, is basically a sign of treating online services as intrinsically and inevitably dangerous; and once you concede that 'sovereignty' pretty much boils down to having domestic dangerous tool vendors, no different than defense contracting.
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@hikingdude@mastodon.social 2026-06-18 04:50
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social 😭😭
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@mro@digitalcourage.social 2026-06-18 08:21
Hi @andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social, fear not nor despair. IMO 🇪🇺 ever has been ambivalent to say the least or schizophrenic to put it more bluntly. There seems to be a huge longing in the politics-media bubble for a July 2013 Twitter and everything that looks vaguely like that is cheered enthusiastically. They're big orgs, so it's nature to respect other big, centralized, hierarchical (paternalist or outright authoritarian) org. The Brachiosaurus hardly can befriend a mouse. We know how that went. That ambivalence, however, is the chance to take and foster social bonds while the pretenders populate the stages.
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@t3rcermillenium@mastodon.social 2026-06-18 14:22
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu are pandering to commercial concerns. There is already a privacy-preserving and open source solution - Mastodon. We don’t need an EU-based version of #Bluesky or #threads. A big no from me. Hopefully, this fails hard and “lessons learned”.
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@davidculley@hachyderm.io 2026-06-20 12:02
@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social "European Values" are money. In that sense they do live and demonstrate their own values.