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The US understands the threat of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on US citizens and manipulating their behaviour and is looking to ban TikTok.

Dear @EU_Commission, here’s an incomplete list of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on EU citizens and manipulating their behaviour:

- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
- Alphabet, Inc. (Google, YouTube, etc.)
- Twitter, Inc.
- Microsoft (Windows, etc.)
- Snap, Inc.

Thoughts?

#SiliconValley #BigTech #us #eu

@aral @EU_Commission

#Github is an important one that's missing on the #Microsoft entry.

Looks so deceptively open to the naive eye, but is a huge trap of walled garden lock-in, esp. with all the stuff that's being added right now to this all-pervasive platform.

#FreeYourCode or otherwise #GiveUpGithub I'd say to all the many governmental institutions in the #EU that are considering it in their - well-meant - efforts to move towards #FOSS. Before the next problem is at your doorstep.

@smallcircles @aral @EU_Commission extend phase is long underway

@zlatko @aral @EU_Commission

Exactly. On the full front of Software Development. Dunno what's in that future, but if I'd speculate I see regular git workflows going extinct (for devs using their platform that is).

In that future, if you're even working offline, you'd get some blob with a full-blown dev environment and the code sitting somewhere hidden within, not directly accessible as files, only to surface magically in your VSCode.

@smallcircles @aral @EU_Commission

And most of the code is written by copilot.

@smallcircles @aral @EU_Commission and you're just a mechanical turk for pull request reviews, fixing typos the bots make.

@zlatko @aral @EU_Commission

Thank you, future overlord, for your wise insights 🙏 😛