I go for Digital Independence myself.

Independence has the right vibe, at least for (US) Americans, and avoids the Sovereignty bro coding.

It's actually really unfortunate that European progressive forces have given up on sovereignty and patriotism. Definitely understandable why, duh, with the way fascism happened and with Europe historically being a bunch of terrible empires… BUT the massive side effect is that all the ideas related to resisting the dominance of the superpowers were ceded to the neo-fascists.

Oh actually an even worse (?) related historical cock-up IMO was/is left Euroscepticism (embracing "sovereignty" against your friendly neighbors instead of banding together to have a chance at real sovereignty against the big bullies)

I think it depends on context, real motive and who is using the word.

Totally agree.

Besides, it's IMO overdue to *reclaim* the word sovereignty as it's, an instantly easily understood term across the EU.

But maybe it describes quite well what is happening, if it's a white movement where people want to escape other white people's power to use the means of oppression themselves.

The correct way would be to push for "freedom & independence" instead.

• Also the #NSAfD needs to be fucking banned for being a #NSDAP copycat.

They may have uttered it, but where I come from (DK/EU) it's mostly used about provinces and former colonies having had enough.

And that, to me, is the perfect analogy of people finally demanding freedom from the enshitifcators.

The problem is that the right intentionally reduces "sovereign" to isolationism/nationalism. We kinda need to resist that, because they'll otherwise do it to any other term as well ("independence" is a similar candidate).

Maybe throw in an adjective & re-order? "Sovereign digital collaboration".

Sovereignty includes the word "reign". You can not reign without an object, you can have sovereignty over X.

As such, the two words are completely different in the way they describe a power struggle. Focus on autonomy and you describe a situation where you want to be free from something (e.g. Big Tech, or US tech, or whatever). Focus on sovereignty and you (and not someone else) should have power over something, typically via property, law, infrastructure involved.

I think both can still be used from a right-wing perspective of (EU) nationalism, but autonomy is more open to anarchist anti-capitalist principles.

I'm also in favor of a different term for the concept that is less so.

However, I also think that it sucks that we yield terms (which actually describes exactly what's intended) to the right-wing national so easily and then are forced to evade

Calling 'sovereignty' a fascist word seems a bit.....daft. Faffing around arguing about the decorating when the roof has collapsed kind of daft.