Hi, > On 05 Feb 2016, at 14:22, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > The UK may have an anti-EU referendum in 3 months. Yanis Varoufakis > (controversial former Greek finance minister who rides motorbikes[1]) is > now trying to create some movement of pro-EU democracy activists under > the name DiEM25[2] with a launch in Berlin next week. > > What is notably absent from debates on both the left and right of the > spectrum is any talk about the role of proprietary technology, big data > and the cloud. Many of the social problems created by big data are > global. The DiEM25 people are talking about "bringing back" democracy, > but I suspect that with their web site simply linking to Facebook and > Twitter they are simply another well-intentioned group transferring a > little more power into the hands of a few privileged people in Silicon > Valley. > > Is anybody in FSFE reaching out to any of these groups - anywhere in the > political spectrum - to see if there are areas for collaboration?
I wanted to attend the event but did not get an invitation or a ticket. I would be interested in participating. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | [email protected] | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
