This talk will provide elements to think about social network platforms and the evolution of national and international legal agreements. We will examine the processes of homogenization of the web and the processes of legislative harmonization within the EU and see how they influence each other. And discuss the political consequences of this dynamic.

This talk is part of the Plutonian Striptease’s lecture series on social media, online privacy, the data market and the economy of open systems. In the framework of LIWOLI, an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context.