To the EU: remove links to GAFAM on europa.eu

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Dear Sir or Madam,

As an EU citizen and regular user of your websites, I am writing to ask the European Union to review and change the default “share this page” options on official EU web pages hosted on europa.eu domain and subdomains.

Currently, many EU pages prominently offer sharing via large, centralised platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and LinkedIn. This practice has several negative consequences:

The EU should not pre-select a few dominant commercial platforms as the default route for sharing public information when a platform-neutral technical standard already exists.

I respectfully request that the EU:

“Share via e‑mail” (using a simple mailto: link)

Use the Web Share API as the primary sharing mechanism. This would allow users to choose their own preferred sharing destination through their device or browser’s native share sheet, instead of the EU pre-selecting and promoting a handful of private platforms. The Web Share API is specifically designed to let websites share links and other content to user-selected targets

“Copy link” (so people can share in the tools and networks of their choice).

Allowing “Share on Bluesky” by linking to the public URL composer (e.g. https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=… ) or similar.

Allowing a “Share on Mastodon” button or via a simple URL‑copy workflow.

Ensure that any social‑network‑specific links are implemented in a way that does not load third‑party trackers or scripts by default (no embedded widgets, pixels or iframes), in line with EU data‑protection and cookie rules.

This change would be a concrete, highly visible way for the EU to:

I would be grateful if you could forward this request to the relevant services responsible for the EU web publishing guidelines and social‑media policy, and inform me whether any changes are planned in this direction.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

Kind regards,