"Our plea in aid of the open Internet is that not view the Internet as a monolith, nor indeed view it as fixing the Internet solving all of societies problems," she said, urging policymakers to: "Take a wider focus when they're looking at solutions - not look at the Internet just through the lens of a handful of companies. Speaking during a Twitter Spaces event today to discuss the formation of the alliance, Sinead McSweeney, Twitter's global policy VP, said the group is making a plea to lawmakers to think about the wider web ecosystem - rather than see the Internet as "a monolith" comprised of just a handful of tech giants. But the Alliance is putting out a wider call for other "middle-layer" Internet companies to join the initiative - so the grouping may grow in size.Īlbeit - very clearly - big tech need not apply. At the time of writing it's unclear why Mozilla is missing. Notably Mozilla - which had joined Twitter, Auttomatic and Vimeo in a earlier call for incoming EU digital regulations to support better user controls to tackle bad speech rather than hone in on content censorship - is not being named as a founding member so appears to be sitting this one out. Twitter said the establishment of this formal lobbying alliance has been some two years in the making. From a report: Alongside Twitter, video streaming platform Vimeo Automattic, the company behind, WooCommerce and Tumblr the Czech and Slovak focused search engine company, Seznam and Jodel, a Berlin-based (profile-less) social network, are named as founding members. In a formalization of an earlier Twitter-led push to try to exert influence over fast-forming European digital regulations, the social media firm has used its Twitter Spaces platform to host the official kick off of a policy advocacy lobby group that's being branded the Open Internet Alliance (OIA).
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