Elon has nothing on the bureaucrats. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is shutting down in two weeks their unused “alternative social media platforms that prioritise individuals and their rights to privacy and data protection”. That includes the Twitter clone “EU Voice” and “EU Video”, a YouTube alternative. The latest exhilarating clip there – “EU Coast Guard Cooperation: Online Platform & Exchange Programme” – has 19 views after a week…

The EU’s Twitter clone has 18 active accounts – despite at least 40 EU bodies being told to use it when it kicked off. That’s privacy of a kind…