Every server deployment on Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP and MS Azure feeds the beast.

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

Every server deployment on Amazon's AWS, Google's GCP and MS Azure feeds the beast.

Not only do they reinforce pathways of centralisation in the topological sense, but they also invest in US supremacy geopolitically. That supremacy now openly includes a theocratic & racist, war-mongering & imperialist movement.

Every server you spin up at home or on a smaller DC, like every abandoned Google, Twitter or FB account, slows the beast down.

The 3D's:

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

#bigtech

[quaewpos@kanoa.de]

@JulianOliver 🏆

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

I'm not saying "don't buy the US things", rather, don't invest in the enormously powerful planet-engulfing tech corporations that are openly partnering with the current US administration on their hideous projects.

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

It's here too that without some rigour and vigilance the beast can get fed on the sly. It is great to see folk depopulating BIgTech for small companies providing managed alternatives, a fine start, but don't get cosy until you know who they themselves host with.

Ask them "where will my data be stored?"

Some, many, are hosting on AWS, for instance. So when you move to their shiny new free and open source alternative to toxic tech, you've left the cell but you're still in jail.

[carpetbomberz@mastodon.online]

@JulianOliver

Jail as a Service
#amazon

[mro@digitalcourage.social]

Hi @JulianOliver,
💯
you may enjoy my 🚀 #35c3 5-min talk "Dissolving #GAFAM, one bit at a time" https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9566-lightning_talks_day_2#t=3337

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

@mro Thank you I will watch it in a quiet space tonight