Just to not forget the economic extraction that we're suffering from BigTech.

[wtebbens@social.coop]

Just to not forget the economic extraction that we're suffering from BigTech. Only the cloud services business in Europe extracts some 264B €, as calculated in the Asterès Report.

That generates an estimated 2 million jobs in the US instead of generating them in our local communities.

That's one of the costs of NOT having #DigitalAutonomy and #TechnologicalSovereignty

Here in English: https://www.cigref.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TECHNOLOGICAL-DEPENDENCE-ON-AMERICAN-SOFTWARE-AND-CLOUD-SERVICES-AN-ASSESSMENT-OF-THE-ECONOMIC-CONSEQUENCES.pdf

cc @DigitalCoup #BigTech #extraction

[wtebbens@social.coop]

Now, of course a #BuyEurope campaign may help mobilise some to Europe, but how do we avoid growing European BigTech in the process?

I think the answers lies in combining #commons with #cooperativism and free/libre open source as a precondition. These three traditions bring thousands, hundreds and decades experience to the table respectively, and bringing them together is the sweetspot, the win-win-win, for people, planet and collective profit.

@DigitalCoup @andreas @ela