Yesterday Facebook, discguised as meta, and Meta, disguised as Instagram launched Threads. Threads is meant to be a twitter competitor. The paradox is that Facebook has always been a twitter competitor, and this has become more evident with every iteration of both social networks. It is paradoxical that Facebook would need threads, to compete with Twitter....
Posts tagged “european union”
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Threads and Europe — Jul 7, 2023 -
On AI and Corporate Social Responsibility — Feb 18, 2025This morning I went for a run. During this run I listened to Systems Crash and the discussion about AI, about the US attitude, and the European/International attitude and it convinced me that I much prefer to use EU/International projects rather than American ones for a simple reason. Corporate Social Responsibility.... -
Digital Sovereignty and I — Feb 4, 2025I want to start by saying that I hate using the word sovereignty because I think it has right wing baggage. Having said this it is the term often used by Infomaniak and others and it helps shorten the explanation. Infomaniak, like Proton, and many other European solutions provide us with the opportunity to keep our data off of US servers, in Europe, where GDPR rules protect our data from being mined without our prior consent.... -
Apple and Meta Fight About Privacy And the EU Weighs In — Jul 2, 2024A few days ago we saw that talks between Apple and Meta had amounted to nothing. There was talk about including Meta’s AI efforts into Apple Intelligence, unti Apple said “Forget it” or somethign to that effect. I skimmed the headlines but don’t remember the details....
