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Courtney R

@courtneyr.bsky.social
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AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social at Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO, NYT

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John Sands @iohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
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Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation
For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On Wednesday, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said it will force Google to give publishers real control over whether their content powers AI-generated search summaries. It's a big deal. From @courtneyr.bsky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/uk-regulator...
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“The concentration of power with the tech monopolies is a major issue because economic power translates so easily into political power” my interview with the International Bar Assn www.ibanet.org/Defending-de...
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Defending democracy: Europe’s endeavours to resist big tech
The EU has introduced regulation to address the threats to democracy and human rights presented by big tech through social media and AI – moves the US has characterised as ‘foreign censorship’.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Courtney Radsch sends a dispatch from a DC federal hearing in Coalition for Independent Technology Research v. Rubio, the suit challenging Trump's visa restrictions on researchers who study online harms.
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Dispatch from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research v. Rubio District Court Hearing
Courtney Radsch attended a hearing on the lawsuit challenging the Trump administration visa restriction policy on researchers who study online harms.
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Predatory business practices and failed public policy have made artificial intelligence a potentially existential threat to journalism. New technology could offer an important step toward a solution, writes @courtneyr.bsky.social, director @cjl4news.bsky.social @openmarkets.bsky.social.
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How to Save Independent Journalism from AI
AI and the Future of Independent Journalism: The promise and peril of privately controlled data marketplaces for media content.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today I’m discussing CJL’s new report, “Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths,” on the emerging market for AI content licensing with @capitolforum.bsky.social Join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ca...
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This Tuesday, May 5 at 11:00 a.m. ET, The Capitol Forum will host a conference call with Dr. Courtney Radsch, PhD of the Open Markets Institute to discuss the organization’s new report, “Same… | The C...
This Tuesday, May 5 at 11:00 a.m. ET, The Capitol Forum will host a conference call with Dr. Courtney Radsch, PhD of the Open Markets Institute to discuss the organization’s new report, “Same Gatekeep...
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would be horrible for creative content producers and for the broader marketplace of ideas. @courtneyr.bsky.social breaks down exactly why we must oppose it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy | Courtney C Radsch
A congressional hearing this week underscored the danger a WBD deal would pose to journalism and the American public
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@sulliview.bsky.social spoke with @courtneyr.bsky.social for @theguardian.com piece examining Trump's role in Paramount's move to acquire Warner Bros. -- and CNN. We've already called on state AGs to investigate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I wish more comedy writers would testify before congress, and will definitely channel this energy next time I have the opportunity! courtneyradsch.substack.com/p/when-the-j...
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Best Congressional Testimony Ever: Picture Book Author versus the Joke Police
Congress summoned an Emmy-winning comedy writer and children's book author to explain censorship in what was the most entertaining and incisive hearing I've ever watched.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/03/2026
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The showdown between Anthropic and Trump's Department of War is a pivotal test of whether democratic norms can restrain the surveillance and combat-AI infrastructure we’ve built. I'm not hopeful. substack.com/home/post/p-....
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The Pentagon wants its Panopticon
Trump's demand that AI companies remove safeguards is a test of whether democratic institutions can restrain the surveillance infrastructure they have built
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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In what will surprise no one, there is an AI Boom on K Street: One in Four Lobbyists Now Work on AI. Not surprising given that AI companies now rank among the first trillion dollar companies in the world and are pushing back against concerns about an AI bubble readsludge.com/2026/02/24/a...
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AI Boom on K Street: One in Four Lobbyists Now Work on AI
A new Public Citizen report analyzes lobbying disclosures for 2025 and finds that lobbying on AI issues has skyrocketed.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Censorship and capitulation are once again in the news as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was prevented from airing its interview with US Senate candidate James Talarico. This is about corporate greed and cowardice amid rising authoritarianism and democratic decline substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Censorship and capitulation: the latest on Colbert v Carr
Why corporate greed and cowardice, government jawboning and media behemoths blocked the airing of an interview with a Senate candidate from Texas.
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"Netflix threatens speech through market power, and Paramount Skydance threatens it through demonstrated capitulation. Both are bad." - @courtneyr.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy | Courtney C Radsch
A congressional hearing this week underscored the danger a WBD deal would pose to journalism and the American public
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/12/2025
“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." www.404media.co/flock-expos...
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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Not old enough to remember personally but he is a legend and an icon of journalism for a reason
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Our statement from @courtneyr.bsky.social is here: “U.S. senators are finally confronting the serious threat of consolidated media censorship and quid pro quo interference that has unfolded during this administration..." www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Vigorous Bipartisan Condemnation of FCC for Media Censorship Erupts at Senate Commerce Hearing  — Open Markets Institute
“It is deeply alarming — and overdue — that U.S. senators are finally confronting the serious threat of consolidated media censorship and quid pro quo interference that has unfolded during this admini...
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Yep, that’s me. How do you keep a straight face when the head of an INDEPENDENT REGULATOR can’t answer what he swore when he took his oath of office or clarify that the president is NOT his boss & that YES the FCC is independent. Also couldn’t t keep quiet www.journalismliberty.org/publications...
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Vigorous Bipartisan Condemnation of FCC for Media Censorship Erupts at Senate Commerce Hearing — Center for Journalism & Liberty
FCC Chair Carr’s denying independence of the regulatory agency necessitates his removal.
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Unclear if this is actually policy or just Trump shooting from the hip. But we agree that that the broadcast ownership cap should NOT be lifted. Broadcast is already highly consolidated. Stay tuned 📺
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Find our full statement, from @courtneyr.bsky.social, on why this illegal merger must be blocked here: 3/3 www.journalismliberty.org/publications...
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After Cutting Kimmel, Nexstar Asks Trump to Greenlight Illegal Merger — Center for Journalism & Liberty
Two months after bending to a White House demand to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its network, Nexstar Media Group is asking the Trump administration to approve an illegal $6.2 billion merger ...
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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Did FoloToy seriously think that integrating ChatGPT, a product linked to several suicides and which has so many safety issues that you can't fit them in a single tweet (post?), was a good idea? And OpenAI of course didn't stop it. mashable.com/article/chat...
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The ChatGPT-powered teddy bear is officially on ice
Probably for the best.
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EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25. Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We welcome the release of the crucial OSCE report "Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI" and are thrilled it recommends several reforms championed by our Center for Journalism & Liberty. Full statement from center director @courtneyr.bsky.social:
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Ireland has appointed a Data Protection Commissioner who formerly held a senior public affairs role at Meta – disregarding EU law & treaties. The govt must conduct a new, transparent process to appoint an official with a strong record of protecting human rights. www.article19.org/resources/ir...
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Ireland: Adopt new, transparent process to appoint Data Protection Commissioner - ARTICLE 19
Data Protection Commissioner has responsibility as lead supervisory authority for many of the world’s largest technology companies.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Defenders of a rules-based intl order must “recognize that Big Tech’s anti-regulatory agenda will outlast the Trump Admin so long as trade policy remains a mechanism through which the US and others can restrict governments’ tech policy choices” @astienon.bsky.social techpolicy.press/how-europe-c...
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How Europe Can Expand Digital Trade to Challenge Big Tech’s Anti-Regulatory Push | TechPolicy.Press
European leaders must take the lead in imposing checks on Big Tech, and by extension, the US chokehold over the global digital economy, writes Audrey Stienon.
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Center for Media & Digital Governance @cmdgtech.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"[The platforms] are not neutral hosts; they are political actors with extraordinary power to distort the public sphere and undermine democracy in the United States and around the world." Read @courtneyr.bsky.social on Europe's fight against Big Tech: www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-...
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Why Europe’s Resistance to Big Tech Matters for the Future of Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
We are witnessing the fusion of corporate and state power take institutional form, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Yet another reason why local News is more trusted than national news, which failed to fairly & accurately cover the mass mobilization for No Kings while often granting outsized coverage to fringe white nationalist & Tea Party protests. Same as when I worked at @nytimes.com during Iraq war protests
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schurenberg.bsky.social @schurenberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Media is an ecosystem and journalism is its keystone species. Whatever you think of journalists, the system collapses without them. This and more from @courtneyr.bsky.social of @openmarkets.bsky.social on the latest episode of In Reality.
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Information is an Ecosystem. Without Journalism, It Collapses - In Reality podcast
Eric Schurenberg is joined by information 'ecosystem' thought-leader Courtney Radsch discussing the vital role of journalism even today!
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ARTICLE 19 @article19.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Day 2 of our Future of Democracy with @openmarkets.bsky.social! Follow along to hear from Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa.bsky.social, @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Mira Milosevic, @dimi.wikimedia.brussels, @courtneyr.bsky.social + ARTICLE 19's Quinn McKew www.youtube.com/live/vZTwYPS...
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
No matter how many times I hear @mariaressa.bsky.social talk about her experience, her work, her analysis of manipulation and influence operations conducted on & by #BigTech platforms, I’m inspired to keep fighting against concentration of power in our info ecosystem & for pro-democracy alternative
Maria Ressa speaking at Future of Democracy event in the EU parliament
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
With this year’s California legislative session officially in the rearview mirror, it’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet and over Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.
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What Tech Bills California Governor Newsom Signed Or Vetoed in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
It’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet in Sacramento, writes Jasmine Mithani.
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great panel to discuss policies to protect online expression: Labour MP @chionwurah.bsky.social, @alemanno.bsky.social, Thomas Hughes at Appeals Centre Europe, and @corneliawoll.bsky.social at Hertie School Berlin, in conversation with @maxvonthun.bsky.social ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
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Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hard to decide if Google’s next antitrust battle will be YouTube or Chrome or Gemini. This is good arg for YT. Spotify & Netflix Gun for YouTube's Eyeballs The video podcast partnership may portend a bundle...
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Peter Boothe @pboothe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If someone has to give it to you for you to have it then it’s not a right.
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Platform Power, Free Speech, and Political Interference: Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty, a new policy brief by me and my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @maxvonthun.bsky.social is out today www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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New Policy Brief Warns: U.S. “Free Speech” Attacks Threaten Europe’s Sovereignty and Democracy — Open Markets Institute
CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch and Europe director Max von Thun author a brief arguing that dominant U.S. platforms such as Google, Meta and X wield unprecedented power to manipulate pol...
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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Now on stage: Our first panel with David Kaye, Former UN Special Rapporteur @davidakaye.bsky.social, Sasha Havlicek at @isdglobal.org, and MEP Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.bsky.social. Moderated by @courtneyr.bsky.social at @cjl4news.bsky.social. Tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In addition to censorship, the Trump Administration is speaking FOR people. Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails blaming Democrat Senators for government shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in response to Trump Pressure Campaign in yet another attack on #freespeech. I’m deeply disappointed to see yet another corporation cave without resisting. This censorship is particularly problematic given its App Store monopoly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Amid threats to EU sovereignty & digital regulation, what was the EU ambassador to the US’ message to #BigTech? “We love you” & “We will continue to love you” & Europe has more Google search users than we have citizens. No mention of its illegal monopoly, censorial threats against trade & DST. #fail
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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I wish I were subscribed to @disneyplus and @hulu so I could unsubscribe
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