Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

@EUCommission Could we please stop subsidizing cars? They are immensely harmful to our environment, our planet, our cities and our children. Cars are:

* number one killer of children
* number one source of major trauma in children
* number one source of pollution in cities (exhaust, brake dust, tire dust, etc)
* Two thirds of our street space are taken up by cars

European industry should focus on things we do better than others, and things that the world needs more urgently, like wind mills.

I wonder if the new #US #tax #deduction applies to #FOSS hackers as well? If so, the first $25,000 of donations would be tax-free.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/no-tax-on-tips-guidance-creators-trump-treasury-1236366513/

#FreeSoftware #donations

@kwf @funkylab @nblr @entropia @domrim @muccc @bert_hubert anyone can run an F-Droid mirror and any user can add any mirror to their client app. For mirrors that are used by default, we require that they have privacy standards similar to f-droid.org, since F-Droid users expect that level of privacy by default. There is no rule about location per se, but a mirror in country that requires logging and government access to all servers would fit our users expectations.

#privacy #default #FDroid

@funkylab @bkuhn @conservancy @fdroidorg @marcprux @seabass perhaps, but Google is not just going to back down without being pushed. We need to get organized and push them back.

"So if you’re wondering what all the venture money is chasing....it’s not productivity. It’s substitution."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trillion-dollar-problem-ai-built-solve-wages-samson-williams-myf5e

#AI #LLM #Capital #capitalism #wages #Marx #automation

@mnalis @eff I agree that harmful things should be banned from advertising. A key part of this question is: what is politically possible?

Forbidding smoking in specific places has worked quite well around the world, for example. There are drastically fewer places where people actually smoke.

@violetmadder @eff sure, there are some governments like that. And there are also some governments built on the concepts of taking care of their people. The idea that governments can do something to improve the online lives of children exists at the same time as authoritarian governments will use popular excuses to do things purely to prop up their own power.

For anyone who wants to know what #Google's lawyers for the #DigitalMarketsAct think about the law, they publish on it:

https://www.clearyantitrustwatch.com/2022/04/the-digital-markets-act-unpacking-the-eus-transformative-new-tool-box/

#ClearyGottlieb #law #competition #antitrust

#Trump blowing up a #boat in international waters is as absurd as it is scary. They just murdered 11 people and justified it by saying war tactics work. "The War On Drugs" has been going on since 1971, cost $1 trillion and is a miserable failure.

More likely, this was migrants being smuggled. At least Trump & Co are not boasting about killing migrants. But this is looking really scarily close to the opening scene of 1984. US media is happy to just replay all the government's claims and video

@mnalis @eff age restriction laws are also useful because they restrict related economic activity. If something is legally age restricted, it also can mean that companies can't make money offering such content to minors, they cannot promote it to minors, etc.

@mnalis @eff None of the conditions here are binary, they are all continuums. Any restriction can be circumvented, but that does not make the idea useless. Just all all software insecure, its only a matter of degrees. One clear win is just preventing harmful things like gambling, pornography, addictive software, etc. from being mainstream and socially acceptable. E.g. Its possible to gamble on the internet although its restricted almost everywhere. And now, there is far less gambling online.

@404mediaco Interesting article, but labeling piracy as the root of the problem means you are taking the point of the view of the #copyright maximalists. We should also consider that copyright itself could be part of the problem. Then we can see that better solutions might come from removing some things from copyright eligability. The #USConstitution says it is "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Does pornography really fit in there? Could removing copyright lead to less harm?