Hacker News with Generative AI: Sovereignty

Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty (mediascope.group)
Social media has emerged as the central nervous system of global communication, shaping politics, culture, and identity. Yet, Europe’s digital public square is not its own. Over 80% of the continent’s social media activity flows through platforms headquartered in the United States—Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Alphabet (YouTube), and X (Twitter)—creating a dependency that undermines Europe’s autonomy.
Bogota Declaration (wikipedia.org)
The Declaration of the First Meeting of Equatorial Countries, also known as the Bogota Declaration, is a declaration made and signed in 1976 by eight equatorial countries, and was an attempt to assert sovereignty over those portions of the geostationary orbit that continuously lie over the signatory nations' territory.
Every internet fight is a speech fight (pluralistic.net)
Every internet fight is a speech fight: And every internet fight is a sovereignty fight.
Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data (computerweekly.com)
Philippines sends warship to assert sovereignty, counter activities by Beijing (scmp.com)