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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For anyone interested in platform liability and the eCommerce Directive hosting shields, paras 2.86 to 2.124 and 3.79 to 3.81 are a must-read. lawcom.gov.uk/publication/...
lawcom.gov.uk
Product liability: consultation paper – Law Commission
Reforming the law
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unlibrarian.bsky.social @unlibrarian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.gov.uk/government/c... - of interest, @cyberleagle.bsky.social and @openrightsgroup.org .
gov.uk
Possible amendments to the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 in respect of appeals under the Online Safety Act 2023
Seeking views on possible amendments to the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 in respect of appeals under the Online Safety Act 2023.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/08/2026
arstechnica.com
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A striking climate-model result suggests AMOC may have a rate-induced tipping point. 👉 Slow CO₂ increase: AMOC stable to +5.5°C 👉 Faster increase: collapse around +2°C Same climate system. Very different outcome. The rate of warming matters. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change - Nature Climate Change
Climate change is expected to alter oceanic circulation, with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at risk of collapse. This work shows that the stability of the AMOC is dependent on...
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Simon Assion @sassion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Die Entscheidung des EuGH i.S. #Nextbase wäre beinahe durchs Sommerloch gefallen - verdient aber Aufmerksamkeit. Nähme man sie ernst, wäre sie ein ziemliches Problem für alle von uns, die in ihrer Freizeit Meinungen veröffentlichen. Ja, auch hier auf Bluesky. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lexbas...
linkedin.com
"Lexbase": EuGH zum Anwendungsbereich des Medienprivilegs
Die Entscheidung des EuGH i.S.
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Rolf Albrecht @rolfalbrecht.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
LG Berlin II: Prüfpflichten eines Hostproviders im Zusammenhang mit Online-Bewertungen können entfallen, wenn pauschal gegen 1-Sterne-Bewertungen mit dem Argument“ Kein Kundenkontakt“ vorgegangen wird,Bewertungen aber Kundenkontakt nahelegen gesetze.berlin.de/perma?d=NJRE...
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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New on my blog: Contempt of court and platform liability. www.cyberleagle.com/2026/08/cont...
cyberleagle.com
Contempt of court and platform liability
Graham Smith's blog on law, IT, the internet and online media
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The Economist @economist.com · 13/09/2025
“A fundamental shift is needed in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents,” argues Meredith Whittaker. “Basic lessons in privacy and digital security are being discarded,” she warns
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AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: Apple are back alongside ourselves and Liberty - in challenging the UK government's regime of secret TCNs. www.ft.com/content/2cc9...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
over the last decade I’ve observed leftists in the US turn against free expression as a value and mock defenders of the 1st amendment as inherently “libertarian.” I wondered if they preferred something more like the UK model; which just allowed JK Rowling to bully Amnesty into deleting a report
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“There is little in the UK constitution that would stop a determined and considered assault on the checks and balances to raw executive power. One day we shall look back at the current period and ask: why was not more done to anticipate what was to come?” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Can we safeguard our constitution before the next general election?
We have time, but not that much time, to make changes before any incoming radically illiberal government
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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 31/07/2026
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. (1/4)
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michael veale @michae.lv · 30/07/2026
Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...
Image of the interface, featuring Article 5 with citation counts per article and per paragraph.Image of the interface, featuring Article 17(3) with citation counts per article and per paragraph, and sources.
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christoph schmon @tylium.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why a recent Court of Justice case about drivers reporting police checks could cause collateral damage to freedom of expression in Europe. My latest piece argues that recent CJEU case law is eroding EU intermediary liability protections to the detriment of users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
eff.org
New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression
Intermediary liability laws around the world recognize that social media platforms, search engines, and other online service providers have become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we acce...
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christoph schmon @tylium.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Intermediary liability protections (an important safeguard for freedom of expression) are being chipped away in the EU: ➡️ Russmedia: privileging content control ➡️ Coyote System: equating algorithmic organisation w/ control ➡️ AGCOM: expanding the notion of knowledge curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Taps sign: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-regulat...
chrisdillow.substack.com
On regulatory capture
Why regulators work for the companies they oversee, and what to do about it.
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Marcus Beckmann @marcusbeckmann.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
EuGH: Online-Veröffentlichung von Anti-Doping-Verstößen bei Profisportlern ist unter Vorbehalt einer individuellen Interessenabwägung DSGVO-konform www.beckmannundnorda.de/serendipity/...
beckmannundnorda.de
EuGH: Online-Veröffentlichung von Anti-Doping-Verstößen mit Namensnennung von Profisportlern unter Vorbehalt einer individuellen Interessenabwägung DSGVO-konform
EuGH: Online-Veröffentlichung von Anti-Doping-Verstößen mit Namensnennung von Profisportlern unter Vorbehalt einer individuellen Interessenabwägung DSGVO-konform
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unlibrarian.bsky.social @unlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Seems like a serious new EU Court of Justice restriction of online speech in the name of privacy; apparently no mention of (or attempt to reconcile with) the court's prior Buivids/Youtube ruling (C-345/17) curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
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Jules @juleswp.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
📰 Comme chaque mois, voici un nouveau numéro des RAW, l'infolettre de Wikipédia en français. Si vous voulez tout savoir sur le bannissement du cofondateur de Wikipédia Larry Sanger, passé à l'extrême droite, ou le manque de diversité de genre dans les articles francophones 👉 w.wiki/S4ha

RAW
Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia.
Infolettre mensuelle no 294 — juillet 2026
S'abonner
L'Édito
Fêtons notre mouvement !

Vous l'aurez remarqué, le logo affiché en haut de notre version linguistique célèbre les 25 ans de l'encyclopédie depuis le début du mois de juillet. Mois dans lequel la fête annuelle des wikimédiens se tient cette année à Paris. La Wikimania 2026 sera une première pour beaucoup de contributeurs francophones donc Trizek nous fournit, dans « Le POV », un « guide de survie » pour bien profiter de l'évènement. On rappelle d'ailleurs que si vous n'avez pas pu prendre un billet pour être sur place, vous pouvez suivre l'événement en ligne et une watch-party est aussi organisée à Paris.

Comme dans le programme de la Wikimania, l'intelligence artificielle s'invite dans ce numéro : un outil et un débat à découvrir. Dans « L'Atelier », PAC2 reprend et prolonge son travail sur la diversité de genre dans les articles, avec une méthode affinée et des résultats qui, sans surprise mais avec des nuances éclairantes, montrent que la route est encore longue sur de nombreuses thématiques.

Après avoir parcouru les rubriques favorites de votre magazine, direction Byzance et les réseaux sociaux avec l'interview de Pronoia qui nous parle de patrouille, histoire antique et animation de la présence de Wikipédia sur les réseaux.

Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour celleux qui seront à Paris ! Sinon, wikifions ensemble !En bref — Des actualités francophones et du mouvement Wikimédia, des nouveaux outils et des résultats de recherche

Le POV — Guide de survie pour la Wikimania 2026

L'Atelier — Le point sur la diversité de genre dans les articles

L'Analyse — Larry Sanger is back... and fired!

L'Interview — Pronoia : de Byzance aux réseaux sociaux, un œil sur Wikipédia et le monde

Le wik'hit parade — Une analyse des articles les plus vus le mois dernier
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 30/06/2026
A vicious cycle of four steps surrounding a black cat with a thousand-yard stare and a dapper little tie. The four endlessly cycling steps read:

-going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you

-ahaha youre not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach

-your data is probably for sale online now

-that means someone could easily impersonate you
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17/06/2026
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni today said her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban on teens like those in the works in France, the U.K and other countries.
politico.eu
Meloni says Italian government won’t push for social media ban on kids
Prime minister says ban can be ’easily circumvented.’
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
⚖️ Judgment in Joined Cases C-188/24 and C-190/24, on whether two French rules – restricting access to pornographic sites for minors and limiting the reporting of certain road inspections – comply with the E-Commerce Directive.
curia.europa.eu
Judgment WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates - Coyote System explained - C-188/24, C-190/24
Prohibition of pornographic content to minors – Electronic commerce
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unlibrarian.bsky.social @unlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I once saw kids on a long UK train ride watching Mr Bean clips on Youtube. Their dad was reading the newspaper. What I want to know is, from 2027 when the UK ban is in effect, who will I report such an outrage to? The train conductor? The police? Ofcom? Google?
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Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Really unhelpful that all the reporting calls this terrorism legislation. It's not:
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
2 in 5 local Facebook groups and over four-fifths of X searches featured at least one piece of misinformation in their last 1,000 posts. Of 19 Nextdoor locations studied, 3 were found to contain misinformation.
Nearly 1 in 26 (4%) of news related posts on Facebook were misinformation; on X the ratio is over 1 in 4 (28%)
Places in local authorities with no or limited local news outlets (e.g. ‘news deserts’) had nearly 3 times as much fake news as a share of all posts as average on Facebook groups, albeit based upon 12 groups worth of data.
Conversely, places with a relatively high number of local news outlets (‘news oases’) have half as much misinformation as average, again based upon a limited sample (13 groups).
Places with local elections, on average, saw more misinformation in the run up to polling day than they did earlier in the year. Misinformation as a share of all posts increased from 0.12% to 0.15% (26% increase) and as a share of news grew from 8.2% to 12.9% (56%).
The rate of misinformation seen across four Gorton and Denton local Facebook groups was 26 times higher than in the wider Facebook analysis – 3% of 1,000 posts were identified as fake news, compared to 0.1% nationally. This is driven by far more news related posts on these groups, and a near doubling of the share of them being classified as misinformation.
Three in five misinformation posts (61%) in places with local elections in the week of the vote related to national politics or council issues, compared to 28% in the wider national analysis earlier in the year.
1 in 5 ‘fake news’ (19%) posts analysed on Facebook groups related to local issues, including planning, transport, local services and council politics. Our case studies revealed how planning applications could be misinterpreted into the “council selling off the beach”, or how local authority communications can be faked.
A third (32%) of misinformation found on X was anti-immigration or Islamophobic, far ahead of the next most common, h…
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/06/2026
Wake up baby, new smartphones and fertility evidence just dropped. 🙈 www.nber.org/papers/w35310
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Same arguments could have been (& in fact were) made over the rise of the steam engine: that it would produce vast inequality. But the answer to this is not to ban the technology but rather to build institutions that ensure egalitarian access to & distribution of the economic benefits of the tech.
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Vincent Granier @vincentgranier.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026
Jean-Marc Borello a obtenu de Google le déréférencement de cet excellent article de @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/france/2018/..., apprend-on dans cette décision du @conseil-etat.fr www.conseil-etat.fr/fr/arianeweb...
liberation.fr
Harcèlement sexuel : «Je ne voulais pas de ce baiser mais Borello a le bras long»
Pilier de la macronie, figure du milieu de l’économie sociale et solidaire ne cachant pas son homosexualité, le président du groupe SOS est accusé de harcèlement et d’agressions sexuelles dans son ent...
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 06/05/2026
“[P]olicies to prevent children from accessing pornography have been grown to the extent that we could need to provide ID in order to access social media, games and apps or use everyday features such as livestreams or feeds." 🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the call for a change in tack over online safety.
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Tech giants and civil rights groups warn UK's age-verification plan threatens the open web
A massive expansion of online ID systems is looming in the UK. Discover why experts say these new laws could entrench Big Tech and forever change how you access the global internet.
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unlibrarian.bsky.social @unlibrarian.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is big: www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Just the wurst
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michael veale @michae.lv · 28/04/2026
south africa withdraws own government AI policy over hallucinated citations www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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michael veale @michae.lv · 20/04/2026
Many voters who use big, old platforms may rarely see age verification practices and not be aware of invasiveness, as such platforms (Apple already does) use age of account as a proxy and never check more. Younger users get no such benefit. good for data minimisation, but keeps people in a bubble.
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New substack: income inequality has fallen slightly, but inequalities of power are a big problem: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/one-cheer-...
chrisdillow.substack.com
One cheer for falling income inequality
Income inequality has fallen slightly. This does not mean inequality isn't a problem.
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La Quadrature du Net @laquadrature.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Jeudi dernier, la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (CJUE) a rendu un arrêt cinglant contre le système de fichage français. Elle juge que la prise d'empreintes digitales et de photographie telle qu'elle est menée par la police française est disproportionnée. www.laquadrature.net/2026/03/25/l...
laquadrature.net
La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne désavoue le système de fichage français
Mercredi dernier, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne – la plus haute juridiction de l’UE – a rendu un arrêt « Comdribus » très attendu concernant les pratiques de fichage françaises. Dans une…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is outstanding by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk on the weaponisation of irony and the need for radical sincerity open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...
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Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Government has explained that it intends to use the power to bring generative AI services like chatbots within the scope of the OSA framework. But in theory, the power allows much more than the Government's stated intentions.
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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Coming round to that time of year when we find out how much Ofcom will reckon to spend on #OnlineSafetyAct in the coming year. Cumulatively, £279m so far.
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Legal Futures @legalfutures.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence zurl.co/0L00F
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High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence
A claimant giving evidence in the High Court was fed answers through smart glasses he was wearing that were connected to his mobile phone.
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Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW BRIEFING | The risks of consigning online safety law to delegated legislation Our latest briefing examines two late-stage government amendments, giving Ministers significant powers to reshape online safety legislation. 🔽 www.hansardsociety.org.uk/publications...
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe. www.politico.eu/article/age-...
politico.eu
Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn
Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Brett Max Kaufman and I wrote this piece about the NSA's "vocabulary of misdirection" a long time ago but maybe someone at Open AI should read it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has been harshly criticized for having misled Congress earlier this year about the scope of the...
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Alexander Hohlfeld @alhohlfeld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking up,” the German Federal Chancellor said yesterday. It is hardly surprising that calls for age verification and social media bans for minors are now being followed by demands for an end to online anonymity.
linkedin.com
“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking up,” the German Federal Chancellor said yesterday in his Ash Wednesday speech (https://lnkd.in/dUVH87ja) It is therefore… | A...
“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking up,” the German Federal Chancellor said yesterday in his Ash Wednesday speech (https://lnkd.in/dUVH87ja) It is therefore hard...
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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 18/02/2026
Ein Antrag auf dem CDU-Parteitag fordert "die Einführung einer Klarnamenpflicht auf sozialen Plattformen". www.cdu.de/app/uploads/...
Daher fordert die CDU Deutschlands:

die Einführung einer Klarnamenpflicht auf sozialen Plattformen zur effektiveren Ahndung von Straftaten und zum Schutz vor ausländischer Einflussnahme.
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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Jesus Christ. Reports that more than 300 inmates have died in Shala prison in Darfur in the last two months. www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundred...
middleeasteye.net
Hundreds dead in RSF-run prison in Sudan's North Darfur
At least 9,000 civilians said to be in Shala prison, southwest of el-Fasher, where cholera has broken out
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/02/2026
People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“The question is not why Mandelson is allowed to keep his title, it is why the system of patronage and an unelected second chamber is still allowed to exist. It’s way past time to abolish it and urgently replace it with something elected and modern.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Peter Mandelson is fleeing the House of Lords: now let’s throw out all the other rogues and idlers | Jenny Jones
The disgraced politician throws all that is wrong with our present system into sharp focus. We need a second chamber the public can trust, says Jenny Jones, a Green party peer
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marc rees @reesmarc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Cet oubli de l’État qui pourrait aider (voire sauver) Kick, Coco et Pavel Durov en justice Les autorités ont attaqué plusieurs acteurs du numérique sur la base d’un article du code pénal adopté en 2022... aujourd'hui menacé faute d’avoir été notifié à Bruxelles ! www.linforme.com/tech-telecom...
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Cet oubli du gouvernement qui pourrait aider Kick, Coco et Pavel Durov en justice
Les autorités ont attaqué plusieurs acteurs du numérique sur la base d’un article du code pénal adopté en 2022. Sauf que celui-ci pourrait être écarté faute d’avoir été notifié préalablement à Bruxell...
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Owen Bennett @owbennett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Exhibit n (via @wired.com) on why policy proposals starting from the premise of 'digital sovereignty' and 'strategic autonomy' should never get a free pass in policymaking circles, especially when they involve the shifting of ownership/control between private operators. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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