Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
Is the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
#5yrsago How @eff's @evacide plans to destroy the stalkerware industry https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/
#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-years-of-insisting-that-drm-in-html-wouldnt-block-open-source-implementations-google-says-it-wont-support-open-source-implementations/
#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-months-of-insisting-that-article13-doesnt-require-filters-top-eu-commissioner-says-article-13-requires-filters/
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#5yrsago More than 100,000 Europeans march against #Article13 https://netzpolitik.org/2019/weit-mehr-als-100-000-menschen-demonstrieren-in-vielen-deutschen-staedten-fuer-ein-offenes-netz/
#5yrsago Procedurally generated infinite CVS receipt https://codepen.io/garrettbear/pen/JzMmqg
#5yrsago British schoolchildren receive chemical burns from “toxic ash” on Ash Wednesday https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/08/children-end-hospital-burns-heads-toxic-ash-wednesday-ash-8868433/
#5yrsago DCCC introduces No-More-AOCs rule https://theintercept.com/2019/03/22/house-democratic-leadership-warns-it-will-cut-off-any-firms-who-challenge-incumbents/
#1yrago The "small nonprofit school" saved in the SVB bailout charges more than Harvard https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/small-nonprofit-school/#north-country-school
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In vielen Städten in Deutschland und in der Europäischen Union sind heute junge und alte Menschen auf die Straße gegangen, um für eine lebenswerte digitale Gesellschaft zu demonstrieren. Der Protest richtete sich gegen die drohenden Uploadfilter im Rahmen von Artikel 13 der EU-Urheberrechtsreform.
No word on pastiche and the EU digital copyright directive??
#5yrsago With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/13/with-days-to-go-until-the-copyrightdirective-vote-article13s-father-admits-it-requires-filters-and-says-hes-ok-with-killing-youtube/
#5yrsago Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263957/gimlet-media-union-spotify-recognition-podcasts
#5yrsago McMansion Hell tours the homes of the “meritocratic” one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids’ way into top universities in the college admissions scandal https://mcmansionhell.com/post/183417051691/in-honor-of-the-college-admissions-scandal
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#10yrsago Guardian Cities: how Hackney council let developers demolish the startups of “Silicon Roundabout” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/10/slow-death-of-silicon-roundabout
#10yrsago Snowden at SXSW: immediate impressions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/11/edward-snowden-sxsw-nsa-internet
#5yrsago Why #Article13 inevitably requires filters https://communia-association.org/2019/03/05/final-x-ray-article-13-dangerous-legislative-wishful-thinking/
#5yrsago Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are “BreedReady” https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/1104482014202351616
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#5yrsago History is made: petition opposing the EU’s #Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in human history https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet
#5yrsago The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/05/the-peoples-republic-of-walmart-how-late-stage-capitalism-gives-way-to-early-stage-fully-automated-luxury-communism/
#5yrsago BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel https://twitter.com/dietinghippo/status/1102153605899927556
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#5yrsago German Minister of Justice to receive the largest EU petition in history, opposing #Article13 of the Copyright Directive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwj-hDvJWM8
#1yrago How Facebook's #RealNames policy helps Cambodia's thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#hun-sen
#1yrago The public paid for "#Moderna's" #vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again) https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity
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#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/even-rightsholders-think-europes-article-13-mess-call-immediate-halt-negotiations
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No5ClLS1W8
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2019-01-16/state-official-went-roaming-around-vermont-to-test-cell-coverage-claims
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With only days to go before the planned conclusion of the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market, Europe's largest and most powerful rightsholder groups — from the Premier League to the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Association of Commercial Television in Europe —...