#europewashing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #europewashing, aggregated by home.social.
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#WSocial: "We want to promote European digital sovereignty. We're made in Europe, for the world!"
@EUCommission: "A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W."
W Social: "You need to verify your identity. Please download our #WIdentity app from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store"
No further comment necessary.
Check for yourselves (04:30): https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ
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Nazi Bar but make it European.
Amirite, @EUCommission?
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Clueless or corrupt, you decide.
#EU #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #WSocial #EuropeWashing #BigTech https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116764738020685078
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“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena’s excellent exposé on W Social.
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116645486985827346
Who’s behind W Social?
Folks like this:
“Ingmar Rentzhog, an entrepreneur who claims he found and helped develop the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg into a world phenomenon, also used her name to bring in almost SEK 10 million in venture capital for his company - without her knowledge, SvD has found. ‘We had no information about that’c says Svante Thunberg, the teenager’s father.”
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“I'd venture to say that Rentzhog has a talent for spotting trends tied to societal causes - climate change, European digital sovereignty - and harnessing media attention to build businesses around them.”
– @_elena
Is Europe-washing a term? Because it should be.
#wSocial #bullshit #sameFuckersDifferentFlag #eu #socialMedia #sovereignty #VC #BigTech #EuropeWashing