TBH at this point I'm rooting for a carrington event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carring...

Apple TV Plus has quietly pulled its new show about domestic extremism

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Fact-checking isn’t censorship. But here’s the letter. The killer irony is that Google says *the Biden Administration pressured them — and they resisted.* So, they resisted then, but now they’re repenting and…accommodating Jordan, who calls this “oversight”. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

For those unfamiliar, platforms have a 1A right to moderate as they wish. There’s something else to highlight here: YouTube NEVER CENSORED THE LAB LEAK DEBATE. The fantasy that there was mass suppression of it is a right-wing construct. Meta blocked it for 3 months at the behest of the WHO.

This is being trumpeted as a damning concession that Biden administration violated the 1st Am by pressing for content removal. It's not. It's about as namby pamby as what Zuck said. Basically, "we don't like this and we think they shouldn't do it." That doesn't make it unconstitutional.

The CJEU has clarified when damages can be claimed for breaches of EU competition law found by national competition authorities. Analysis of the recent Nissan Iberia judgment, by Marwan Ben Moussa - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/09/niss...

Personality rights related www.instagram.com/reel/DOy8skx...

Why's personal data monetisation by the individual coming up again? It's very silly and only ever works in narrow contexts rather than as a general all-inclusive thing www.ft.com/content/ea76...

⚠️ @404media.co has filed a lawsuit against 🇺🇸ICE for access to its contract with #Paragon, a company that sells powerful #spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps. www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

I AM FREE!

"Ughhh" is my blunt message They'll either bake in a bunch of exceptions or scrap ePrivacy entirely. There was no majority for legally binding consent signals with the ePR and there's even less political support for it now. Perhaps pressure to scrap ePrivacy entirely for data retention as well?

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Court agrees with Ont. Commissioner: ransomware encryption = “use” + “loss” of data, even if no one used it or accessed it. Privacy law terms don’t always mean what you think. New episode out now on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/qrGgRbQ3Ik4

Google honestly advertising Gemini (on Facebook as it happens) with "summarise this contract, including an outline of agreements, termination and payment terms" as the example.

jimmy kimmel officially diagnosed with blueskyism, is no one safe

social media’s next. this place needs to federate more quickly.

I had naively believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Shine a light and change would follow. Now, I began to see, while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"However, it faced increasing pressure by the US government after a threat actor breached D.C. Health Link, a healthcare provider for U.S. House members, their staff, and their families, and began using the forum to sell and leak stolen data."

How Judge Mehta rules on the Motion to Dismiss in Chegg v Google will be important for many of the derivative antitrust cases.

#Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web - techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/m... "Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as before"

At the same time that it becomes common to see the toxic effects of forming a relationship with these technologies, the companies are becoming more dedicated to finding ways to perpetually drip poison into your ear.

A story in three acts.

I have not read the decision in Case T‑553/23 - Philippe Latombe v European Commission, as the ECJ has yet to release an English or Spanish version. Meanwhile, the CJEU has provided an English summary here: curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

We’re finally getting that government-run social media platform we all used to joke about in the teens.

crucial to recognize this isn’t just a rhetorical thing. cued by feds, there’s police all over the country now really lowering the bar for what’s considered “threatening” and using interagency back channels to compile/share the names and accounts of people expressing frustration w/ the government.

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

Good www.ft.com/content/6596...

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

One important way this has played out in the real world is through the evolution of tools like Mastodon and Bluesky, and their underlying protocols. So far this has been a lot more boring and normal and nice than the sci-fi bleakness I was contemplating in 2017. 15/

The DSA isn’t perfect. But it and prior EU laws got banged on, vetted, revised, and improved. Mean old blog posts like mine, and public criticism and filings from all sides of the issues, are artifacts of that process. What matters is *the actual law* enacted at the end. 4/

New paper from OpenAI reportedly acknowledges that incorrect assertions are inevitable even with perfect data (I say reportedly because I have not read the paper yet) arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

That only shows Parliament is not willing to do more than symbolic measures. But there are more tools in the toolbox than the nuclear option of a motion of censure. If Parliament does not play its role of democratic watchdog, it becomes redundant. Use it or you lose it.

Well, here we go… Dutch parliament just passed a resolution declaring “antifa” a terrorist organisation. 76/150 votes in favour of it. www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...

How dare news stories directly relevant to my master's dissertation take place after I turned it in www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Draft law in the US state of South Carolina would make it illegal for any web site anywhere which discusses abortion to be viewed within the state. I wonder where they got that idea from

this exists it is called thinking

New, by me: A cyberattack on a check-in system used by hundreds of airlines and airports is causing flight delays across Europe. The maker of the check-in software, Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon, said it was aware of "cyber-related disruption" to its system.

I'm generally pretty supportive of the country of origin principle however compared to "your home member state gets to regulate" it is pretty annoying (and often very difficult) to obtain judicial review against regulatory bodies in other members states that negatively affect your rights

I have one in my class and he was excited about the Data Act :-)

A story perfectly marrying my current editing job and my previous editing job: 🇦🇹 Austrian army is ditching Microsoft Office for LibreOffice. It’s about security, and tech sovereignty Via @heise.de www.heise.de/news/Oesterr...

This is legitimately damaged behavior, and I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this over the years. Too many folks are forgetting that GenAI is a tool, and nothing more.

Carr: We're going to back to that era where local TV stations, judging the public interest, get to decide what the American people think… I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop… the consequences will continue to flow.

Had to double check if this was real. It is.

Turns out, if there are 76 ideas for how to build five things, something’s got to give: @ec.europa.eu and countries are in talks to whittle down the number of AI Gigafactory pitches. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Next time someone suggests that online platforms should be licensed remember that, in the pantheon of laws touching on freedom of expression, broadcast licensing has always been the exception not the rule - and a dangerous one at that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something I'm thinking at the moment is the fact that we're probably living through the very last hurrah for text-based social media platforms like this one. Bluesky seems to work for ppl who are very online, or who were early enough to build a following by getting on a load of starter packs...

I no joke think that step 1 is purges and step 2 is a new constitution. There was little to rebuild on in the first place and SCOTUS nuked most of that in the last few years

Next time someone suggests that online platforms should be licensed remember that… https://alecmuffett.com/article/115078 #FreeSpeech #GrahamSmith #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #censorship #ofcom #surveillance

Optus Australia messed up emergency calls in its mobile network, which meant people couldn't dial 000 (112/911 in .au). 3 people died because they couldn't reach emergency services www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...