Hello everyone
the main limit with all of this (including GDPR and all current
institutional actions) is that the extractive and exploitative nature of
the data and computation industry are not questioned at all.
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This is a real issue. This equivalence is being promoted so much that it is
Aside from the deep irony of using the term 'Gaia', and 'ecosystem' in any
relation to the CO2-generating/privacy-devouring Cloud, seems to be more of the
same geopolitical wrangling for territories of control ...
On 24/Jan/20 12:19, Luke Munn wrote:
In terms of alternatives, there is the
Hence the quotes - I suppose I could have added "ostensibly" in there.
Of course data infrastructures and the wider technological industry are
highly political in constructing imaginaries, appropriating funding as you
noted, aligning with public and private interests, shaping the flows of
data,
Data Center and Service providers are attempting to lobby further for
large amounts of investment planned in Gaia-X, see slick pamphlet here:
https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/Digitale-Welt/project-gaia-x.pdf?__blob=publicationFile=4
They are appropriating the language and growing
