"Government officials outside the US now openly talk of decoupling from America on topics like AI, platform governance, and tech-enabled industry policy. Those conversations — framed around “technological sovereignty” — have sprung up in even the most ardent of US allies where local policymakers are wary of attaching their countries’ long-term interests to the world’s largest economy whose policy agenda can appear to shift, arbitrarily, from one day to the next.
Such potential “digital conscious uncoupling” could not come at the worst time.
Authoritarian governments, led by China and Russia, are pursuing aggressive tactics — embodied in the United Nations’ Convention Against Cybercrime — to embed mass surveillance, widespread suppression and government control over how technology develops.
Confronted with this widespread threat to the digital world, Western democracies must speak with one voice, and not become divided among themselves. Unfortunately, that is now unlikely as Washington pushes MAGA policymaking and the US’ long-standing allies demur on signing up to a digital agenda that, for many, no longer meets their geopolitical needs."
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hologram@cyberplace.social · 3 pts · 1y
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org We have ignorant, self serving cops in our cities eager " to embed mass surveillance, widespread suppression and government control over how technology develops." also, and we have fought it for deacdes already. Oakland is a very good example. You can find the battles online. This isn't just global> it's the Nazi down the street from you, and now the military is brought in.