Now if the Spanish government could walk the talk and drop US big tech social media for self hosted alternatives…
It doesn’t make any sense for a public figure to speak in a place that’s empty. Social networks grow from the ground up, not the other way around. If the population doesn’t like X they should stop using it, and their leaders would move to the platform where they are.
The other way around is self evidently absurd, nobody will change platforms on the basis that a prime minister is publishing some messages there and no politician will spend time talking to nobody when everybody is in a different place.
US tech centralization is terrible !!!
- sent from X for iPhone
Us tech centralization is a kapital sin!
*sent maliciously from my second-hand Pixel through Lemmy.
Last night there were regional elections in Spain; Sanchez’s assessment of the results was made on X
Neither the institutions nor he/his party have any say in Mastodon.
Gotta send him an email to tell him about mastodon.
Go ahead, good luck, if you think a signature or something can help you, send me a private message, as a Spanish citizen you have my support, but I think he is not going to pay any attention, he knows about mastodon but is afraid of losing impact or visibility or whatever
I haven’t been able to find his email, so even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. If you do find his email, you could share it here, we send him one and we announce it on mastodon so that hopefully others participate. Getting the president of the socialists of Spain to join mastodon could be big.
It does not seem to have an open email address for citizens, but there is a contact form open at this address “https://escribealpresidente.presidencia.gob.es/escribealpresidente” I guess if enough people write to you, they might start to pay attention.
Tech oligarchs are bad, but have you give them our ID to access them (proof of age) doesn’t seem the answer.
How would this impact Lemmy? Wouldn’t instances need to enable this or risk legal action/block? Honest question.
ID verification is done by the government, using encrypted personal digital certificates or the physical id card chip issued by the government and its own online platform and app, open source and linux compatible, as with everything else in Spain.
Did you think the plan was sending pictures of one’s id to Facebook? Lmao
France and Spain are the only European countries where the intention to remove foreign platforms is not only real but existed before the current hype.
However, countries traditionally worried about sovereignty and autonomy use to have worse economies because it has never been profitable in pure dollar terms and is less efficient. That’s why France has the great European strategic vision but not the money, and Germany, Denmark et al have the money but the shortsightedness of a merchant, proud of being vassals.
Ids being sent to US social media companies is a really bad idea. Gating internet with id checks is bad too.
Restrict data gathering and require transparency of algorith and manipulation of feeds. It’s the black box algorithm and editorializing that is the problem. The issues they cause are not contained to kids.
Make stringent regulation that is tied to a platforms user count. If they don’t follow regulation, restrict their access to your market.
Make social media unprofitable again!
They won’t be sending ids to social media companies.
Gating the internet with government checked ids based on open source platforms is the only way to tackle bot farms, malign foreign actors and psyops. If you live in a free country and want an honest public square that’s what you want. You want to know who is a real single individual and a citizen of your country or the EU and who is not.
People who demonstrate in France Spain and so on don’t hide their faces and destroy their ids, there is no need, what’s your argument here? Why is the internet any different? Don’t fool yourself: the internet is the greatest psyop and normalizing anonymity in free countries only helps their enemies.
As a social media user, I see nothing harmful for teenagers and even younger children in the mechanics of social media. It can be an effective means of building community, effective communication, creativity, respect and was the ultimate vision of many Internet pioneers to promote global, participatory culture.
As a parent, there is no way my children are being exposed to the hateful, insane graphorrhea of you ignorant misanthropes.
Demonstrably wrong:
https://www.ft.com/content/aa433fd3-7844-4254-85fe-6970be6532a9
The ‘mechanics’ of notifications, infinite scroll, public by default, algorithmic sorting, etc all carried everywhere on a rather large mobile device are all quite problematic. Social media without all of this would be far less addictive for most people, both children and adults included.
