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  • The CEO of Socket is this guy. I’m not sure that someone with those credentials would be heading a company engaged in what basically amounts to racketeering. Though, I suppose he might be unaware it’s happening. The company has many investors, any of who would benefit from creating an environment that supports the company’s existence without the awareness of any of the employees. But it’s clear this isn’t some scam operation run by desperate people out of India, which was my first thought from reading your comment. There are reputable people with their reputations at stake. It would be a Theranos-level scandal if what you say was actually determined to be occurring. So, on the one hand, there are reputations at stake, and, on the other hand, Silicon Valley is not incapable of committing fraud.























  • The EU doesn’t need to be a technology-taker – it can be a technology maker. The Apple/Google duopoly may have sewn up the mobile market with illegal monopoly tactics, but that doesn’t mean that the EU will never spawn another Nokia or Ericsson. The shortest, most efficient, most reliable path to reestablishing technological sovereignty for the EU’s half-billion residents and 27 member-states is to allow domestic firms to take over the relationship between the Trump-controlled American tech giants and the Europeans who rely on their technology.

    We don’t typically have our highways owned and operated by for-profit megacorporations. It should be the same with operating systems. It’s the base layer on which all the applications rely. That’s too much control placed in private hands.