The Call for Participation for the #Decentralized Internet & #Privacy devroom at #fosdem2019 was published 🎉 It would be great to receive proposals from a diversity of people.
Please boost widely !
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002769.html
@loic FOSDEM 2018 had one of the world’s largest surveillance capitalists as its primary sponsor. Who are the sponsors this year?
If Google is sponsoring again, there is no way either I or @indie would take part.
It’s time events that purport to be about freedom stop legitimising and whitewashing surveillance capitalists. And it’s time those of us with legitimacy in this area stop being complicit in that practice.
@aral @loic @indie I'd rather say the strange part is Google willing to sponsor the conference, which promotes all the things that go against its core business model at some degree. I think it's fine as long as they are willing to pay the contribution without interfering anything. They have much more to gain in industrial consortiums where they can actually lobby.