Digitale Souveränität: Bundesbehörden haben letztes Jahr 481 Millionen Euro Steuergeld an Microsoft bezahlt. Eine Steigerung um drei Viertel in zwei Jahren. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2...

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Republicans in US congress are apparently more interested in publishing and commenting on the EC's DSA fine of X than ensuring the release of the Epstein files.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The same day Alex Pretti was murdered, Apple CEO Tim Cook, pictured here smiling with notorious sex pest and accused rapist Brett Ratner, enjoyed a gala screening of BRIBE: The Movie at the White House. Think Different, kids.

"as a tool of authoritarian conflict management, the Board of Peace arguably upholds three basic principles: Might is right, ethnic cleansing is an appropriate tool of conflict resolution, and war is an opportunity for real estate development." read @danaelkurd.bsky.social

The Gestapo leader who oversees kidnappings promises consequences for exercising your First Amendment rights.

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

I hope that people do realize that government disinformation is the legally easy case. In a democracy that values freedom of expression, the people responsible in government would have to go.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

The Trump admin's sanctions on researchers and regulators who work on content-moderation, fact-checking, and disinfo are part of an effort to protect the tech ecosystem that has allowed the the far right to flourish. Good piece from @davidakaye.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our joint letter represents a collective effort to speak up against the politicisation of the DMA as a retaliatory measure against the United States. Many thanks to all who took the time to sign!

European Commissioner Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, Josephine Ballon are singled out for US visa sanctions, on the basis of, i would summarize: basic enforcement of European hate speech law (predictably unpopular laws in nazi circles)

In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...

For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:

Solid academic proof: open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

One would think that in "searchable format" would mean that search is available and not hampered in content-specific ways

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"In de overgrote meerderheid van de gevallen verlopen protesten vreedzaam en veroorzaken betogers weinig overlast." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Your moment of schadenfreude.

Trump doesn't have the power to preempt state AI regulation by executive order, even if he's surrounded by yes-men who tell him he does. www.techpolicy.press/why-trumps-a...

Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher): The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech. By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com www.theverge.com/features/839...

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

Come for the DSA, stay for the punk rock! Don't miss the always-amazing Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social with Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social here: "Unpacking the Politics of the EU’s €120M Fine of Musk’s X" — The Tech Policy Press Podcast www.techpolicy.press/podcast/

For the Tech Policy Press podcast, I spoke to Joris van Hoboken, a professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam and part of the core team of the Digital Services Act (DSA) Observatory. We discussed the overall politics of the EU's enforcement against Musk's X:

I joined the Tech Policy Podcast to talk about the latest DSA enforcement developments with @justinhendrix.bsky.social.

“Farage has suggested that it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?…I recognise his walk every time I see it on TV as that same walk that used to approach me” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

*Camp of the Saints* is one of the fundamental texts of global white-supremacism.

I can't use reply to this post, which may be some setting by the original post from @mmasnick.bsky.social I generally like his writing, not always agree, but he is such great source for the field. In this case, I do hope that people also read other commentary.

The US national security strategy is basically saying we are going to support the fascists in Europe, and we want Europe to become firmly white nationalist for the future so we can stay friends.

In a 24-hour span, Trump spouts vile racism about Somalis, SCOTUS reinstates Texas’s racially gerrymandered maps, the Pentagon murders more black or brown fishermen—makes you wonder whether there’s some ugly unifying principle at work here

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

‘What passes for post-liberalism today is either pernicious or impotent.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The committee should investigate “whether the European Commission has been sufficiently equipped and forceful in its enforcement” of the rules to “prevent Big Tech from unilaterally imposing global standards that override EU regulatory goals,” the document reads.“

From January, staff and students in higher education will be able to use Nextcloud, an alternative collaboration platform. It aims to make universities and colleges less dependent on American Big Tech. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New from @jpquintais.bsky.social & me: a critical and wide analysis of the Obligations of all General-Purpose AI Model providers under the EU AI Act. We give a deep ~50 page, 300 footnote treatment and find so many tensions, loopholes, inconsistencies and more. Link: files.michae.lv/papers/Veale...

It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.