In response to Cory Doctorow's powerful article, "Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!", this post outlines the EuroStack Initiative's perspective. Doctorow treats our core mission—building a sovereign European tech stack—not as a fantasy, but as a viable project already underway. This shifts the focus to what he identifies as the next major hurdle: migration. Doctorow identifies the 'Berlin Wall' as the EU's own anticircumvention laws, and his analysis of the DMA's limitations proves why a legal right to portability is not enough. We must now champion the power to migrate by calling for the repeal of these laws, making it the essential next step to ensure EuroStack's success and achieve genuine digital sovereignty.
  • Semisimian@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    7 days ago

    One of the biggest leverage pieces the US had to bully the rest of the world into adopting pro-US tech policy was the threat of tariffs. Now that TACO Supreme has levied tariffs at random all over the place, that threat is invalid.