cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2009546
use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you’re unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you’re quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.Here are the supported languages:
- bg български
- cs čeština
- da dansk
- de Deutsch
- el Ελληνικά
- en English
- es español
- et eesti
- fi suomi
- fr français
- ga Gaeilge
- hr hrvatski
- hu Magyar
- it Italiano
- lt lietuvių kalba
- lv latviešu valoda
- mt Malti
- nl Nederlands
- pl polski
- pt Português
- ro română
- sk slovenčina
- sl slovenščina
- sv svenska
Thanks, thoughts offered. Finally a consultation where real questions are asked, with free text feedback option. It feels a bit weird compared to the “consultations” in my country, with directed yes/no questions.
I feel a bit confronted with myself, am usually a pro privacy and anonymity person, but some of these issues are hard to tackle this way. There should be a very careful balance in this regard, open-source and EU wide alternatives should help a lot to prevent these issues, but anonymity should be held up as an option for the people.
Taiwan has a lot of experience in this area and has been doing some interesting work.
- https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democracy/taiwans-fight-against-digital-disinformation/77507254
- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-lessons-can-taiwan-share-with-the-world-on-election-interference/
By the way, free-libre software programmer Audrey Tang, who has been fighting CCP disinformation from outside and now inside the government, was one of the group who first proposed the Euro Stack, for European IT sovereignty from outside powers and companies.
Wish I was eligible to offer my thoughts, because as someone living through this waking nightmare, I have a few.
Good luck, friends from across the pond!
You can! It says “I’m giving my feedback as” and one of the choices is non eu citizen. Also, in the list of countries, there’s Afganistan, so I think the US will be there too
Oh! That’s cool. I was reading the eligibility, and it sounded like non-EU citizens weren’t the group they wanted to hear from.
Thanks, I’ll put my thoughts together
Perhaps if you post them here it’ll inspire someone to include them in their response.
Amazing. Something like this is a pipe dream in the states.
