#eucommission — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eucommission, aggregated by home.social.
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If I were king of the world I'd obligate all house owners to connect their houses with the sewer system: cold air for free.
(obviously with a filter on top for the smell and hygene)
The solution is already here. We just need to adapt it. This wil save TONS of energy, seeing how Aircos use up to 800w per house and only add MORE to climate change. It's something we really can't afford.
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If I were king of the world I'd obligate all house owners to connect their houses with the sewer system: cold air for free.
(obviously with a filter on top for the smell and hygene)
The solution is already here. We just need to adapt it. This wil save TONS of energy, seeing how Aircos use up to 800w per house and only add MORE to climate change. It's something we really can't afford.
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Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…
So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that – cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).
Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.
That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)
The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)
So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):
https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t
Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:
> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)
Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.
These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.
🤡🤡🤡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.
> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³
But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.
Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?
And if so, why can’t they even get that right?
Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.
Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.
So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?
¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.
² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2
³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)
⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission
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Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…
So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that – cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).
Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.
That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)
The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)
So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):
https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t
Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:
> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)
Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.
These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.
🤡🤡🤡
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.
> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³
But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.
Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?
And if so, why can’t they even get that right?
Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.
Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.
So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?
¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.
² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2
³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)
⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/
#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission
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The EU Commission announced new exemptions yesterday to its Batteries Regulation, which will soon require that portable batteries in products sold in the EU be removable and user-replaceable https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/338958/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-smartwatches-and-fitness-trackers #wearables #eucommission #technology
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The EU Commission announced new exemptions yesterday to its Batteries Regulation, which will soon require that portable batteries in products sold in the EU be removable and user-replaceable https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/338958/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-smartwatches-and-fitness-trackers #wearables #eucommission #technology
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🇪🇺 On 7 July 2026, the #EUCommission presented the #ActionPlan on #Cybersecurity and #AI, aiming to supporting the use of responsible AI and cybersecurity resilience.
Here's a quick overview.
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🇪🇺 On 7 July 2026, the #EUCommission presented the #ActionPlan on #Cybersecurity and #AI, aiming to supporting the use of responsible AI and cybersecurity resilience.
Here's a quick overview.
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European Commission Chooses to Keep EU Users Locked Up Behind Big Tech’s Gates | Electronic Frontier Foundation
#eucommission #datasovereignty #privacy #bigtech #BoycottBigTech #europe #eu
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EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292
#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation
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EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292
#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation
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@normalniklas Finns hos en EU-kommission nära dig 🙂 🇪🇺✌️
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116794461933014480
#eucommission #aislop -
@normalniklas Finns hos en EU-kommission nära dig 🙂 🇪🇺✌️
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116794461933014480
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You reap what you sow….
Maybe not today, but eventually the very people whose discretion and reliability you need 100% will turn against you.
Instead of symbolically keeping the bottom seven floors running and earning 200% commitment in return, the people at the top thought: better to have 18 degrees today.
#EUCommission #airco #Berlaymont
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/ -
You reap what you sow….
Maybe not today, but eventually the very people whose discretion and reliability you need 100% will turn against you.
Instead of symbolically keeping the bottom seven floors running and earning 200% commitment in return, the people at the top thought: better to have 18 degrees today.
#EUCommission #airco #Berlaymont
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/ -
The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible.
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The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible.
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Brussels Wants To Close the Door on Military-Age Ukrainians
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“Extending this cooperation to eastern-based armed groups with records of committing war #crimes and other #abuses with impunity shows a shocking disregard, not only for international #law, but also for #human life and #dignity.”
#EU #EUCommission
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/libya-eu-rival-authorities-intensify-xenophobic-and-racist-crackdown-on-refugees-and-migrants-in-libya-as-eu-seeks-to-deepen-ties/ -
“Extending this cooperation to eastern-based armed groups with records of committing war #crimes and other #abuses with impunity shows a shocking disregard, not only for international #law, but also for #human life and #dignity.”
#EU #EUCommission
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/libya-eu-rival-authorities-intensify-xenophobic-and-racist-crackdown-on-refugees-and-migrants-in-libya-as-eu-seeks-to-deepen-ties/ -
Stop Killing Games Legislation Rejected By EU
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Stop Killing Games Legislation Rejected By EU
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“The #EUCommission is currently engaged in an unprecedented rollback of digital, social, and environmental rules, which often closely mirror industry #lobbying demands. Now it seems that #corporate interests don't just have a seat at the table — they have an office in the Berlaymont.”
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eus-new-ai-envoy-tech-ceo-extraordinary-conflicts-interest -
@kasra_mp I've seen one-man hobbyist pre-LLM era side projects more impressive.
#EUCommission do better please. Stop reinventing the wheel.
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@kasra_mp I've seen one-man hobbyist pre-LLM era side projects more impressive.
#EUCommission do better please. Stop reinventing the wheel.
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@BjornW @Mastodon Well, at least someone in EU is putting real money in open source, while #eucommission is wasting time and efforts in the opinable W Social...
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116764928310205984
You know what they call someone who sits at the same table as a fascist? A fascist.
“…Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia…”
CC @EUCommission Hey folks, how was Peter Thiel’s fascist party? Did Kaja enjoy it? Did she learn anything she can bring back to the EU?
#fascism #PeterThiel #KajaKallas #EUCommission #Palantir #humanRights #democracy
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116760263030804683
🇪🇺 EU Commission's response on Stop Killing Games
The @EUCommission has "answered" to the @StopKillingGames European Citizen's Initiative. And wow, it's just a bunch of nothing!
Their response : https://link.europa.eu/r3XhyM
- No laws are going to be added
- They will be "Communicating with the industry", in order to initiate a "Code of conduct" for killing games. Since it's not a law it's not legally binding
- They want to "raise awareness" when already 1 million people signed this, but being aware of the problem won't fix it
- They claim they can't add a law because of the rightholders. The initiative only asked for games already sold to keep working, if the rights expire they can just stop selling it!And yet, on their social media, they post a "Game not over" image...
I mean, it's better than nothing, but not by much!
The next hope is to put this in the #digitalfairnessact , hopefully it goes through!
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Every journo around the European establishment was condemning the "blockade" of Orban or someone else who disagreed with the proposals around the NATO-Russian war in Ukraine.
Now, no commentary. They present it just as a question of Kallas. The axis of nazism in the center of the European establishment, who promotes and protects the international terrorist entity, deserves no comments from the european journalists.
This is Europe: a fucking advocacy for war and fascism. https://masto.ai/@euractiv/116760087186373075#EUPolicy #eufascism #IsraelTerroristState #TerrorismPromoters #eucommission #eucomplicity
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@EUCommission Great to see this push for transparency extend to everyday food products. The same principle is reshaping the nutraceutical and supplement space too — EFSA's health claims framework has already rejected the majority of botanical health claims for lack of clinical substantiation, and the direction is unmistakable: claims need evidence, not just plausibility. #Transparency #EUCommission #Nutraceuticals #FoodLabelling #ClinicalEvidence
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The EU Commission just ordered Meta to restore free access to rival AI chatbots in WhatsApp to “prevent serious and irreparable harm to competition" https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/337193/eu-commission-orders-meta-to-restore-free-access-to-rival-ai-chatbots-on-whatsapp #whatsapp #meta #ai #eucommission #technology
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EU Commission Fights Losing Battle Over State Budgets
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Gestern hat die Europäische Kommission reichlich verspätet ihre #TechSovereigntyPackage vorgelegt. Ist es die erhoffte Antwort auf Basisinitiativen wie #UnplugTrump und #DIday? Es sieht nicht so aus.
@alineblankertz meint, es gehe der EU-Kommission in dem Strategiepapier v.a. darum, Nachfrage für »KI«-Rechenzentren und -Chips zu generieren – in der Hoffnung, dass die EU-Industrie ein Scheibchen davon abbekommt: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116692284482725366
Das deckt sich mit der Einschätzung europäischen Digitalrechte-Dachorganisation @edri : https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116686684971074313
Nur einen Aspekt findet #EDRi an dem Papier positiv: die anerkennenden Worte über die #FOSS-Gemeinschaft: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116686692215990866
Aber Worte sind billig. Die Bundesregierung hat die FOSS-Förderung gerade erst zusammengestrichen.
PS: @esthermenhard hat für @netzpolitik_feed weitere Kommentare gesammelt. Spoiler: alle negativ. https://netzpolitik.org/2026/rechenzentren-in-der-eu-stromfresser-sollen-uns-souveraen-machen/
#EU #EUcommission #digitaleSouveränität #privacy #digitalRights #digitaleUnabhängigkeit #digitaleAutonomie #Stategiepapier #EUKommision #aislop #kikritik #rechenzentren #aihype #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen #UmweltVerbrechen
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“Their aim is to #weaken public #governance and reshape research and investments towards self-defined private initiatives, such as carbon credits and proprietary labels. All while conveniently maintaining business-as-usual farming practices.”
#BigAgriFood #Lobby #EU #EUCommission
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/degenerative-lobby -
> European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Lithuania for emergency talks after a series of drone incidents in the Baltic region raised security concerns near the borders of Belarus and Russia. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have recently experienced airspace violations involving drones, including one incident that triggered NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission and another where a NATO jet shot down a drone in Estonian airspace. Baltic lears accuse Russia of using the incidents and disinformation campaigns to create divisions between Ukraine and its European allies. The visit will focus on solidarity with the Baltic states and strengthening European air defense and joint military capabilities amid growing fears over regional security threats.
-- Aaron Parnas, May 24, 2026
#aaronparnas #substack #EUcommission #ursulavonderleyen
#lithuania #balticregion
#droneincidentseurope
#NATO #belarus #russia
#latvia #estonia #airspaceviolations
#ukraine #UkraineRussiaWarhttps://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/news-massie-unleashed-over-epstein
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Got a response last week 🥳
TLDR: promised rail improvements don't seem to be completely off the table but I'm not sure what to think about the "boosting competition" part for tickets.
Wouldn't that fracture the market even more and make ticket buying more of a pain?Anyways, the #eucommission is scheduled to propose a new legislative package focused on rail tomorrow, so we should know more about all of this fairly soon.
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#EUCommission’s malignant tactics exposed:
“The seeming attempt to limit the ability of the co-legislators to make changes to the text also limited the Parliament’s and Council’s democratic right to scrutinise and amend the Commission’s proposal – which seems to have been a key factor in what went wrong.”
#ChatControl #Coercion #AntiDemocratic #EU
https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/
