#structuralpower — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #structuralpower, aggregated by home.social.
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#DigitalSovereignity needs #StructuralPower
"Who enforces digital standards such as those that come from the #IETF or the #W3C?
In a few cases, it is state power (e.g. accessibility in some jurisdictions) but that's rare. In some other cases, it's market discipline… But most of the important areas of the #digitalsphere have stopped being open, competitive markets over a decade ago so that the market no longer has a credible disciplining function to enforce #standards. What matters is who has the #structuralpower to deploy the standards they want to see and avoid those they dislike."
@robin -
"Both for #datagovernance and #standards, what matters is #structuralpower. If you have it, you can meaningfully steer both, if you don't, you can't. I am not claiming that discussing these topics today isn't useful, it can be, but hoping that they will have transformative impact without access to structural power is wishful thinking.
The #urgency created by the #technoauthoritarian alignment between #BigTech and the #Trumpregime is the driving priority: first, reclaim structural power. Once that's done, we can debate the rest."
@robin