LobbyControl is a German organization based in Berlin. However, I don’t think the petition I linked to above requires German citizenship. So you can sign it too. Unfortunately, I’m afraid LobbyControl doesn’t have a multilingual website.
In this regard, please see this LobbyControl appeal, as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) -another EU regulation designed to protect citizens from the power of tech giants - is currently not being enforced the way it should be enforced: Strengthening Europe’s shield against the power of Big Tech (in German)
Google, Meta, Apple & Co. are abusing their power. To stop them, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) must be consistently enforced. That’s why you should sign the appeal for an effective DMA now! With the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU has established important rules to protect us, from which we will all benefit. Yet the European Commission is delaying the enforcement of these rules. As long as corporations like Google face no consequences for violating the DMA, the law remains ineffective. Anyone who takes our democracy seriously enforces laws—even against Big Tech.
I already use wero. However, I wasn’t aware that this is already a cross-border initiative and could develop into a Europe-wide service.
Thank you very much for the info!
It is high time that a European, cross-border payment service was established. This should have happened decades ago.
To me, a regulated payment standard like UPI in India seems to make the most sense. But I also find decentralized approaches, such as the GNU Taler, interesting.
Two thing are important, though: This can’t happen fast enough, and under no circumstances should we rely on private companies again.
The US has never recognized the ICC - for precisely this reason: anyone who commits war crimes themselves naturally does not want to be prosecuted for them.
What does that remind me of? … Exoskeletons… Hmm… ah, yes…
The thing about licenses is that they only work if they can be defended in court. In the US system in particular, it is simply impossible for a private individual to do so (even multi-billion-dollar corporations with their highly paid lawyers seem to be powerless against artificially inflated AI giants such as OpenAI).
Therefore, it must be assumed that even restrictive licenses will simply be disregarded.
I just installed Ubuntu on my mom’s laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.
Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn’t use any applications for which there isn’t a reliable Linux alternative anyway.
Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.
In a world worth living in, there would be no billionaires - let alone crypto billionaires.