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Given the rise of the boycott USA movement, the 800 billion โ‚ฌ for military that may not be spent but not on US arms and the dominating presence of US tech in the EU, how can citizens voice their concern? @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu and @EC_OSPO@ec.social-network.europa.eu are on the fediverse, but the just seem like mouth piece without ears.

What can citizens do? Has the ship sailed already?

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[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

You can write your MEP to not cut funding to their NGI (Next Generation Internet) Initiative which already has funded many Open-Source Projects from Wireguard to Pixelfed, or also currently an European Search Index

https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

You can write your MEP

How do I know who my MEP is? The dude/dudette who got the most votes in the municipality I'm registered in?

European Search Index

Last I checked (homepage) there's no mention of NGI at all.

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

I guess it suffices to write your national party or even their European fraction, as voting happens over lists anyway.

And don't forget your national government, they can exert pressure over the European Commission too

[โ€“] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 hours ago

How do I know who my MEP is?

This may help: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm curious why @qwant@mastodon.social and @ecosia@mastodon.social aren't contributing to this and starting their own venture instead.

@openwebsearcheu@suma-ev.social is your search index the basis for a european search engine? And if so, how does one do so and why aren't Qwant and/or Ecosia not doing so?

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

I guess because they want to make money of it, and don't publish their source code or algorithm?