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   Tuta (tutanota@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:57:23 JST Tuta

   Buy #European is trending. What are you favorite European brands? 🇪🇺

   In our latest guide, we take a look at the best European products you can use 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products

   #ChooseEU #ChooseEurope

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     Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:57:23 JST Jan Penfrat

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     Yes, "Buy #European" is trending but it also sucks. A lot.

     Hear me out: I understand and also feel the urge for tech #independence, particularly from the US, right now.

     But just because something is European doesn't make it good or ethical.

     @Tutanota People shouldn't trust you because you're "from Europe" or German or whatever. But because you have an #ethical business model, employ good people, care about your users, respect #humanrights and build free and #opensource software.

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     Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 01:57:39 JST Jan Penfrat

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     @Tutanota As long as we talk about tech independence or digital #sovereignty primarily in terms of geography and jurisdiction, we will lose as users and as people with rights:

     1. Because this narrative can easily be co-opted by antidemocratic, nationalistic forces.

     2. It takes away attention from what actually provides us with independence: software #freedom, #interoperability, a power shift away from #bigtech to small, decentralised, ethical tech.

     3. It gives praise to entities...