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This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model “is coming to europe next” … as if this whole thing wasn’t kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.
To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
Yes. If you scroll to the bottom, you find that the project is led by Prof. Francesca Bria.
Looking her up on Wikipedia, one has 2 thoughts: 1) She has a lot of hustle. 2) Why haven’t I heard about any of that?
This is just the Monorail Man doing the song. Except with disturbingly fascist overtones.
yeah her bio looks like a lot of EU funds for various projects that are POC and then shelved. US big tech is basically her natural enemy in that regard.
because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary… and make sit sound like a battle of good vs evil for all time.
what you are describing… which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary.
people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.