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Sebastian Becker C.

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at @internationalidea.bsky.social . Defending Democracies and Digital Rights. Before in EDRi & FIDH. Personal opinions. Based in Brussels. ES/EN/FR

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 26/09/2026
🔎 Access our searchable database of more than 200 Douglass speeches, editorials, letters and interviews — with audio: douglass.mchangama.chatgpt.site
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Frederick Douglass Free Speech Corpus
A searchable documentary corpus tracing Frederick Douglass’s arguments, practices, tensions, and encounters with suppression.
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 21/09/2026
Grab your preferred mode of transportation and become an explorer with the Wikipedia app! 🎥 itsdondiestro on TikTok
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/09/2026
Yet another story may be that immigration is no longer top-of-mind. Pre-election surveys put immigration in 7th place, after healthcare, education, law and order, eldercare, the environment, and economics www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 13/09/2026
La oposición de centroizquierda gana las elecciones generales suecas con el 51,3 % frente al 46,8 % del bloque gubernamental del primer ministro conservador, Ulf Kristersson, según un sondeo de la televisión pública SVT.
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El bloque opositor de centroizquierda gana las elecciones suecas, según un sondeo - EFE
La oposición de centroizquierda ganó este domingo las elecciones generales suecas con el 51,3 %, según sondeos.
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Trini Lathrop @mattyll.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Columna de Daniel Matamala: Qué desastre, hueón”
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Yanina Welp @welpita.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The (declining) power to define the size? UN has adopted a new World map showing a more accurate depiction of the size of each major separate part of the globe.
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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @casfetera.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"En todas las democracias, la dinámica central no consiste en la separación en dos polos, sino en la deriva de la derecha política hacia el autoritarismo, la transgresión de las normas y la predisposición a la violencia". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026
REVEALED: #BigTech and #BigOil are teeming up to push new gas-powered #datacentres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emissions, worsening the climate crisis' deadly impacts. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...
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A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis...
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Ojo del Medio 👁 @ojodelmedio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Por segundo día se repite pauta de ElMer para blanquear Foro Madrid. Lo presentan como encuentro de alto nivel de líderes, escritores y pensadores moderados y liberales. No hay ultras, no hay iliberalismo, no hay polémicas internas entre partidos de gobierno. De regalo, imagen del poster del evento.
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Sebastian Becker C. @sebabecks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Muchas lecciones que podrían al gobierno de Kast en Chile
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Sebastian Becker C. @sebabecks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Liberal" Leader.
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Héctor @hectoralonso.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finlandia reculando. Su primer ministro desautoriza a su ministra del Interior, que había pedido suspender a España de Schengen.
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Margarida Silva @margaridasilva.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mistral and Microsoft have just announced a "new multibillion-dollar agreement focused on expanding AI infrastructure in Europe". A reminder that firms like Mistral are pitched as national champions with then potential to challenge Big Tech. Yet, they depend on them 👉 www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
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The real winners of the AI Race : Amazon, Google, Microsoft - SOMO
Who really profits from the 'AI race'? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft own the AI infrastructure, and startups are dependent on Big Tech firms.
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Sebastian Becker C. @sebabecks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
warspend.com 112 Billion is the cost of the war in Iran. The entire humanitarian aid budget per year is around 90B. Budget cuts are not efficency but idologic
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Iran War Spend Tracker — Live Estimate of U.S. Taxpayer Spending
Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on military operations. Based on the Pentagon's preliminary estimate of $1 billion per day.
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Ojo del Medio 👁 @ojodelmedio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
LT, como la enorme mayoría de los diarios del mundo, no tiene problema en llamar al candidato colombiano como de "extrema derecha". Para ElMer, en cambio, pese a abrazar a Trump, Milei y Bukele, De la Espirella es apenas de "derecha".
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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 02/06/2026
La Misión de Observación Electoral de la Unión Europea descarta "cualquier manipulación" de los datos en el conteo preliminar y el escrutinio de los votos de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia.
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La Misión Electoral de la UE descarta la manipulación en el conteo de votos de las elecciones colombianas - EFE
La Misión Electoral de la UE descarta la manipulación en el conteo de votos de las elecciones colombianas
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Everyone wants AI sovereignty, yet few agree on what it actually means. Maia Levy Daniel examines how the term gets stretched across Latin America—and why treating sovereignty as binary obscures the harder strategic choices the region actually faces.
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What Does AI Sovereignty Mean for Latin America?
Latin American leaders owe the public the opportunity to engage in a transparent conversation on AI sovereignty, writes Maia Levy Daniel.
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
This is absolutely wild: The #Zambia government has just cancelled the world's most important digital rights conference #RightsCon 2026 which was supposed to start next week in #Lusaka. 3,000+ participants are now hanging in limbo (myself included), some […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]
Facebook post of the Zambian Ministry of Information and Media announcing the "postponement" of RightsCon 2026 due to "the need for comprehensive disclosure of critical information relating to key thematic issues proposed for discussion during the Summit."
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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
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International IDEA @internationalidea.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
TODAY, the Global Democracy Coalition & International IDEA will contribute to a panel discussion taking place in the context of the Global Progressive Mobilization in Barcelona: Beyond Government-Led Democracy Initiatives: Building Cross-Sector Multistakeholder Alliances. #RenewingDemocacy
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Diario-Radio UChile @uchileradio.bot.altgr.xyz · 15/04/2026
AHORA en #RadioAnálisis: la directora para América Latina y el Caribe del @Int_IDEA, @mriost, aborda la próxima presentación del libro "El libro "Criminalidad y Democracia en América Latina". Además, se refiere a los resultados de las elecciones en Perú con el […] [Original post on lile.cl]
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026
The flight of #Artemis2 apparently cost US$ 90 billion. That's 3 years worth without hunger in the world, according to #Oxfam. But while you might be able to see the Golden Gate Bridge from space, you cannot see mass graves in #Sudan or bombed schools in #Gaza and #Iran. As exciting as space […]
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban is out but defeating him at the ballot box is not the same as dismantling Orbanism. The illiberal infrastructure, that is the captured judiciary, the loyalist media landscape, the Fidesz-aligned oligarchs, the constitutional hardball in Basic Law, doesn’t disappear with a concession call
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🇭🇺 Hungarian elections Brussels at around 9 am. On average one hour to wait until voting
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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
EU ministers who “don’t want #Lebanon to become the second #Gaza” shouldn’t forget it’s their slogans and inaction that allowed the first one to happen. It’s beyond time to move from words to action, suspend the 🇪🇺-🇮🇱Association Agreement 👉🏼 euobserver.com/210469/eu-sa... @kajakallas.bsky.social
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EU sanctions back on agenda amid Israel’s ‘carnage’ in Lebanon
"Bodies on the ground. Blood everywhere ... countless wounded adults and children" in Beirut after Israeli strikes, but its EU allies say Israel "blame game" would not help.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Amnesty & 30 NGOs call on the EU to act following Israel's adoption of a death penalty law that will de facto apply exclusively to Palestinians. EU has a clear stance against the death penalty & must immediately suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. www.amnesty.eu/news/death-p...
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brussel (pou)belle @brusselpoubelle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Check out our new website! Lots of information on our campaign and action you can take! brusselpoubelle.be
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 01/04/2026
Au Chili, le nouveau président suspend la création d’un site de mémoire dans l’ancienne Colonia Dignidad
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Au Chili, le nouveau président suspend la création d’un site de mémoire dans l’ancienne Colonia Dignidad
Revenant sur une promesse de son prédécesseur, le président ultraconservateur José Antonio Kast met en avant des raisons budgétaires pour maintenir en l’état ce lieu, théâtre de sévices sexuels infligés à des enfants et d’exactions sous la dictature de Pinochet.
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Europe Unpacked @neuance.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I can’t believe the EU-Israel Association Agreement is still in effect. How can the EU keep this framework in place while claiming to stand for human rights and international law? #EU #Israel #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #Gaza
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Sebastian Becker C. @sebabecks.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Next UN Secretary-General Should Champion Rights (and Democracies) www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
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Next UN Secretary-General Should Champion Rights
United Nations member countries will select a new UN secretary-general this year to succeed António Guterres in January 2027.
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RTBF info @rtbf-info.be · 01/02/2026
L’ULB reproche à Georges-Louis Bouchez de remettre en cause la place de l’université dans la démocratie
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L’ULB reproche à Georges-Louis Bouchez de remettre en cause la place de l’université dans la démocratie
Les propos de M. Bouchez ont été diffusés au cours de la dernière semaine sur la chaîne YouTube, dans la foulée de...
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BX1 @bx1.be · 29/01/2026
La Société des Journalistes de BX1 rappelle que la liberté de la presse ne saurait être à géométrie variable, et que cette liberté inclut la possibilité de se montrer critique avec toutes les formations politiques.
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Attaque de Georges-Louis Bouchez : BX1 réaffirme son indépendance
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations. Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober
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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social · 18/12/2025
Putin wants a weak and divided Europe. Now Trump has joined him. Their weapon: social media. Pro-European voices are silenced. Far-right extremists are boosted. Europe has a weapon too, the Digital Services Act. So why aren’t you using it, dear European Commission?
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Théophane Hartmann @theophane.euractiv.com · 10/11/2025
An 🇪🇺 @viginum.bsky.social? @ec.europa.eu is expected to suggest a "European Centre for Democratic Resilience", per a draft of the European Democracy Shield initiative seen by my @euractiv.com colleagues @anupriyadatta.bsky.social & @elisabraun.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/eu-pitc...
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EU pitches new agency to fight Russian disinformation and bots | Euractiv
The Commission wants a new "European Centre for Democratic Resilience", per a draft of the European Democracy Shield initiative seen by Euractiv
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Article 19's Barbora Bukovská and Mark Dempsey make the case for why Europe must recognize civil society as a critical piece of the democratic puzzle, not an optional accessory. Full piece here: buff.ly/2GsXgHC
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Ugo A Realfonzo @ugorealfonzo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Targeted MEP Daniel Freund told me he was "shocked" that Orbàn's government would allegedly pay over €1 million to spy on him. @danielfreund.bsky.social
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MEP alleges that Hungary paid over €1 million to spy on his Brussels office
"Apparently, they think I'm dangerous enough to put this kind of money on the table," the targeted German MEP Daniel Freund told The Brussels Times.
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Belgium (Brussels), Ipsos poll: PS/Vooruit-S&D: 23% (-1) PVDA PTB-LEFT: 22% (+3) MR/OVLD-RE: 18% (-5) Ecolo/Groen-G/EFA: 12% (+2) LE/CD&V-: 11% (+1) VB-PfE: 4% DéFI-*: 4% (+1) ... +/- vs. 27 May - 3 June 2025 Fieldwork: 16-23 September 2025 Sample size: 800 ➤ europeelects.eu/belgium-(brussels)
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Belgium (Flanders), Ipsos poll: VB-PfE: 27% (+4) N VA-ECR: 23% (-3) Vooruit-S&D: 14% (+1) CD&V-EPP: 13% (-2) PVDA-LEFT: 9% (+1) Groen-G/EFA: 7% Open VLD-RE: 6% +/- vs. 27 May - 3 June 2025 Fieldwork: 16-23 September 2025 Sample size: 1,000 ➤ europeelects.eu/belgium-(flanders)
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 26/09/2025
📹 VÍDEO | Netanyahu modifica su ruta de vuelo a Estados Unidos ante la amenaza de un posible arresto por crímenes de guerra en Gaza y evita sobrevolar España y Francia social.elpais.com/_icko7
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/09/2025
Fact checking IS NOT AND CANNOT BE "censorship." It is literally the "more speech" that pretend free speech supporters always claim they want. It's more speech weighing in on the accuracy of other speech. It's literally a part of the "marketplace of ideas." Yet, over the last decade, the GOP...
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Ugo A Realfonzo @ugorealfonzo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I spoke to various MEPs about von der Leyen's back to school speech yesterday 👇
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Carlos Hernández-Echevarría @carloshem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Lo que se sabe del atentado contra el comentarista ultra Charlie Kirk: 🔴Ha recibido un disparo en el cuello y ha perdido mucha sangre 🔴Está ingresado en estado crítico (AP) 🔴 La policía confirma que el detenido que hay NO es el autor (NYT) 🔴En el momento respondía a una pregunta sobre tiroteos (CNN)
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International IDEA Publications @int-idea-pubs.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
From internet access to #cybersecurity, new rights are shaping the digital era. A new @internationalidea.bsky.social report examines how #constitutions are prepared and adapting to protect fundamental rights in a changing world. Read the report the full report ⬇️ doi.org/10.31752/ide...
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Rights in the Digital Age
This report advocates for thorough protection of human rights in the digital age, emphasizing the strength of constitutional safeguards over ordinary legislation. As digital technologies increasingly ...
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 09/09/2025
🔴 PFAS ('forever chemicals') found in wild fish across multiple EU countries! New EEB report shows that: 🧪 Most samples exceed proposed safety limits ⚠️ Some exceed by 10,000x 🕰️ Member States want to delay action until 2051 Link in comments ⬇️ #PFAS #Environment #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals
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Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
No es habitual que recomiende yo para Europa una medida de Trump, pero tampoco es la primera. Si él puede convertir las ayudas estatales a las grandes tecnológicas en una participación accionarial del estado, nosotros no? Mi columna de hoy en @elpais.com elpais.com/opinion/2025...
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Un socialista llamado Trump
El presidente de EE UU ha tomado la decisión más sensata convirtiendo las ayudas estatales a Intel en una participación accionarial
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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A new AI-generated website unveiled by an Israeli minister claims to “uncover the hidden ties” between Palestinian journalists and Hamas. Sloppiness aside, it follows a pattern of dangerous smears against Palestinians. Tariq Nafi reports.
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Sebastian Becker C. @sebabecks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
¿Autoridades anti-monopólicas armarán casos en sus propias jurisdicciones para sancionar estas conductas?
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Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese.eurosky.social · 05/09/2025
The multibillion fine against Google proves that the EU can act. Google’s ad monopoly bleeds media dry. This ruling is only the first crack in Google’s monopoly in the ad tech market — but it sends a signal far beyond Europe. Next step: structural remedies! www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
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EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat
Brussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud.
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