Another, unrelated, example of the shift in thinking in the Dutch government is about an unanimously adopted motion in the House of Representatives. Last week saw a major storm, and the fire department send out an emergency text warning to people, urging them to check Twitter for the latest updates. However, this coincided with Twitter preventing people who do not have accounts from viewing tweets, resulting in people not being able to see emergency service updates

Yikes

american headline: 12 states vote to re-legalize indentured servitude in order to pay off medical debt

dutch headline:

This is the way.

Now their politicians and national broadcasting services just need to engage with the public on mastodon and we'll be getting somewhere.