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Europe has a social media #infosec issue. Most social media are American, some Chinese, a few Russian. No European. They were taken over by Facebook on its rise.

Primary issue is their near monopoly power, but this event highlights that ownership is a risk as well.
Concentrated media ownership is nothing new. English language mass media has been dominated by the Murdoch family for decades. Media mogul Berlusconi is back in government in Italy. The US had Hearst.

Would seem media are natural monopolies that can be owned&taken. But are they?
To be clear, the solution wouldn't be EuroBook (or for that matter Afritter or AsiaTube). Nor as such initiatives like #Mastodon.

You can and should download your data from social networks, but it isn't in itself a solution either.
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