continued: ... for rules on #Tech with hard #enforcement and for new ways to develop tech, namely tech that supports and not undermines #Democracy, the #RuleofLaw  and #FundamentalRights. END

Continued: ...3 pillars of #freedom, and so do the #Tech #Totalitarians. They together imagine a world governed by #AI and maybe 10-15 super powerful people in Tech and Government. Let us calmly say no to this, vote the totalitarian politics out of office and build big tent coalitions.. (continued)

I find myself ranked as #AI #EUInfluencer number 2 in 2025. Please join me on #Mastodon @[email protected]. And join me in convincing people: It makes sense to engage for #Democracy, #RuleofLaw and #FundamentalRights. The Presidents of #America, #China and #Russia hate these.. (continued)

Empfehlenswerter F.A.Z. Beitrag: Wie gefährlich ist „Big Tech“? www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Celebrating 5th anniversary, @defenddemocracy.bsky.social is thrilled to: ✅ welcome new Board members ✅ welcome Advisory Board member @paulnemitz.bsky.social ✅ join steering group @democratiecoalitie.bsky.social ✅ continue Coalition for Democratic Resilience defenddemocracy.eu/defend-democ...

#GSS2025 @paulnemitz.bsky.social just told @signal.org that he didn't believe any EU privacy laws are technically impossible to implement "that's the kind of thing big tech says." 🤦‍♀️

Nobody wants their personal data and chats to be used for AI Training. What are the Data Protection Authorities doing about this ? It could be so simple, just order AI programmes trained with personal data obtained illegally to be deleted. www.politico.eu/pro/german-u... #AI #GDPR #KI #DSGVO

#Google #Facebook took ads from media. Now #Trump kills public funds:"The number of local journalists is down by 75 percent since 2002, and a third of American counties don’t have a single full-time local journalist" #Democracy newshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/pbs-npr-cuts-funding.html

I spoke on #AI #Democracy and the #RuleofLaw, alongside the UN General Assembly last autumn in New York, at the Global Foundation for Democracy, and in May of this year, at the Catholic University "Angelicum" in Rome: youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmQ... and youtu.be/cCFwaa6BtWA?...

How #US Firms are weakening #EU #AI #Code of practice: By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, the companies put entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest.#AIAct #OpenAI #GAFAM www.techpolicy.press/how-us-firms...

How #US Firms are weakening #EU #AI #Code of practice: By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, the companies put entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest.#AIAct #OpenAI #GAFAM www.techpolicy.press/how-us-firms...

EP Research Arm (STOA) presents governance study for future European TV News Streaming Platform. It will bring together all TV News produced by european licensed Linear TV Stations, automatically translate into all EU languages and make all the news searchable. www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/home...

#ECJ #AG Ćapeta: Hungary breached #EUlaw by banning or limiting access to #LGBTI content 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

#America is on the way to become a #Trump powered #AI #dictatorship. States are barred from legislating on #ArtificialIntelligence. #Democracy is disabled. #BigTech #GAFAM have free reign to shape the world to their liking. Humans become slaves without rights. The New York Times Karen Hao writes:

What are funders who invest in journalism looking for today ? Discussion IJF with Kjersti Loken Stavrum, the Tinius Trust, Maribel Königer, Erste Savingsbank Foundation, Katharina Thomas, Allianz Foundation and Patrice Schneider, Media Development Investment Fund www.youtube.com/live/nz19DuL...

Es macht einen Unterschied, wer Eimsbüttel im Bundestag vertritt und welche Parteien regieren. Deswegen bitte ich Sie heute bei der Bundestagswahl um Ihr Vertrauen. Und um Ihre beiden Stimmen – für mich und für die SPD. #ziehmitwählschmidt

"as Elon Musk and his shock troops descend on Washington ... it’s worth paying attention to the books the tech world reads — as well as the ones they don’t. ... DOGE’s grand effort ... is the latest manifestation of a longstanding Silicon Valley dream: to remake politics in its image." Me/Bloomberg

Am #Sonntag bitte #wählen. Die #Demokratie braucht Eure Stimme. Und überlegt einmal, Euch nach der Wahl zu engagieren: In einer Partei, einer Gewerkschaft, einem Betriebsrat, einer Kirche, einer NGO oder einer Bürgerinitiative. Demokratie ist wo Menschen etwas gemeinsam tun. #Wahl

Jetzt schon 220000 Unterschriften für die Forderungen von #Savesocial. Macht mit, unterschreibt, diskutiert, fordert ! www.campact.de

🚨🚨 What a bloody, shambolic idiot of a figure JD Vance makes. But I am truly grateful for his utterly disrespectful and ignorant speech. It has acted as a trigger of unity for European political leaders now seeing that they have to finally take the fate of Europe in their hands. /1

Call-To-Action: Unterschreibt die Petition savesocial.eu/mitmachen oder direkt bei Campact weact.campact.de/p/save-social

A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department: Good bye #RuleofLaw in America ? Judges and Government emplyees resist actions not intended to serve #justice - and rightly so ! Chapeau !

TikTok, Meta, X: Wenige Konzerne teilen sich den digitalen Raum auf und gefährden die Demokratie. Über 100 Prominente fordern mit der Kampagne #SaveSocial jetzt: Beendet die Monopolmacht der Tech-Konzerne! 👉 Hier kannst du unterzeichnen: campact.org/eWAbP

"Die gesetzliche Regelung ist der nobelste Sprechakt der Demokratie" Ausgezeichnete Keynote von @paulnemitz.bsky.social bei der "Safe Democracy Convention". Danke.

Call-To-Action: Unterschreibt die Petition savesocial.eu/mitmachen oder direkt bei Campact weact.campact.de/p/save-social

Top headlines: Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, NYT: Trump’s Tariffs Would Reverse Decades of Integration With Mexico Washington Post: Trump’s fierce attacks on DEI reflect a longtime GOP focus US media is not giving a sense of the scale of the threats

www.programmablemutter.com/p/doge-is-ri... Doge is ripping out the guts of government.

@paulnemitz.bsky.social haven't heard you before on "power constellations" I'm just stumbling into this early www.joannajbryson.org/media/video/... later oh I can't find later :-/ but somewhat relevant www.bpb.de/310061/joann...

Ich freue mich, ⁦‪⁦‪im @dgb_news‬⁩ #Livestream über #KI und #Demokratie zu diskutieren. Die #Gewerkschaften habe eine wichtige Rolle in unserer Demokratie. Die Zukunft werden diejenigen gestalten, die demokratische und KI Kompetenz zusammenführen. www.dgb.de/veranstaltun...

Antje Tillmann ist die einzige Unionsabgeordnete, die heute mit Nein gestimmt hat. Sie hat vor zehn Jahren die Vormundschaft für einen syrischen 15-Jährigen übernommen, der gerade seine Meisterausbildung zum Industriemechaniker beginnt, wie sie hier schreibt: www.tlz.de/politik/arti...

US becomes breeding ground for criminals enjoying power and profits. Combine this story with the track record of digital giant tech breaking laws on competition, tax, privacy, consumer protection, and start preparing for what we are up against. open.substack.com/pub/programm...

Bravo!„#Plattformen #zerschlagen“, Moderationspflicht, öffentliches soziales Netzwerk: Klartext zu #Trump, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #X, #Facebook und was jetzt zu tun ist, um #Demokratie zu retten, von @MarcoBertolaso, leitender Redakteur im Deutschlandfunk @DLF www.deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-zu...

Auf den klugen Kanzler und seine Urteilskraft kommt es an: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art... #SPD #OlafScholz

I speak monday at #OECD in #Paris on #AI & #RuleofLaw. AI developers and users must accept the primacy of #Democracy and the Rule of Law above Technology and Business models. This is key for the future of sustainable AI for good. #GDPR #AIAct #DSA www.aiathens.org/dialogue/six...

Freitag an der @univie.ac.at: Workshop " #Datenschutz neu gedacht" – Herausforderungen durch KI und globalen Wettbewerb" u.a. mit @paulnemitz.bsky.social und mit @maxschrems.bsky.social zum Regelungskonzept der #DSGVO ↘️ zur kostenlosen Anmeldung: zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/wendeho...

I speak monday at #OECD in #Paris on #AI & #RuleofLaw. AI developers and users must accept the primacy of #Democracy and the Rule of Law above Technology and Business models. This is key for the future of sustainable AI for good. #GDPR #AIAct #DSA www.aiathens.org/dialogue/six...

I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!

After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies. I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”

Auf den klugen Kanzler und seine Urteilskraft kommt es an: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art... #SPD #OlafScholz

Ich hätte jetzt gerne einen Crossposter zwischen Mastodon, Bluesky und X. Was sind Eure Empfehlungen ?

If you can, listen to what @paulnemitz.bsky.social has to say about GDPR and Democracy! It is inspiring, I think absolutely true and in any ways instructive. www.juridicum.at/news-events/...

Selfie this morning with @paulnemitz.bsky.social who was key note speaker at @defenddemocracy.bsky.social conference about ‘Defending democracy in an age of sharp power. Countering hybrid & technological threats to democracy’. As always, lots of food for thought! defenddemocracy.eu/events/29-ma...

Ich hätte jetzt gerne einen Crossposter zwischen Mastodon, Bluesky und X. Was sind Eure Empfehlungen ?

You can bet I'm gonna download the HELL out of this app; gifted from WaPo, article by @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social wapo.st/3ZE4ZK8 #Privacy #Data