The aim of the initiative would be to express to the EU commission the citizens desire to become less dependent on the big tech companies. I appreciate the complexity you mention, but it would be the commission to work out what is achievable or not. My view is that everything is, it’s just the question of timeframe. There are areas, e.g. my school example, that would be easier to transform, other areas as you say more difficult. But we need to drive this and keep on the pressure, otherwise nothing will change. It’s already great to see that we are talking about it
The issue is, if the request is too vague or obviously infeasible, it will simply get rejected.
I’m all for telling our politicians we need to move away from walled gardens and US based big tech. But I think recent events have already made that clear to them.
A strongly worded feeling might feel good to get supported. But if we want actual change, we need to request something that can be acted upon. Of course the time line would be long and it’s up to the EU to implement it. But if we want the time line to be shorter, we need to provide something they can use.
If we can identify some low hanging fruit without a lot of strings attached, I’m sure we can put a proposal together. Then we would need to drum up support, which can be hard but is probably at least partially doable.
The aim of the initiative would be to express to the EU commission the citizens desire to become less dependent on the big tech companies. I appreciate the complexity you mention, but it would be the commission to work out what is achievable or not. My view is that everything is, it’s just the question of timeframe. There are areas, e.g. my school example, that would be easier to transform, other areas as you say more difficult. But we need to drive this and keep on the pressure, otherwise nothing will change. It’s already great to see that we are talking about it
The issue is, if the request is too vague or obviously infeasible, it will simply get rejected.
I’m all for telling our politicians we need to move away from walled gardens and US based big tech. But I think recent events have already made that clear to them.
A strongly worded feeling might feel good to get supported. But if we want actual change, we need to request something that can be acted upon. Of course the time line would be long and it’s up to the EU to implement it. But if we want the time line to be shorter, we need to provide something they can use.
If we can identify some low hanging fruit without a lot of strings attached, I’m sure we can put a proposal together. Then we would need to drum up support, which can be hard but is probably at least partially doable.