Mastodawn

If you are in Australia, please take a moment to read this and plan ahead.

The national emergency alert test on July 27 will sound even if phones are on silent or Do Not Disturb. For some people, that matters more than others.

If you are in a domestic violence situation and have a hidden or safety phone, consider where it will be before the test.

Please share quietly with anyone who may need this

Credit: DaughterOfFire on insta

#DigitalJustice #Dv

Digital Justice Society Feb 27

Cute little read from pseudoskngleton, who finally let go of Google and is having so much more fun, now that they’ve left Google behind.

https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/

#DeGoogle #Gloogle #DigitalJustice

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...

a personal site

APC Feb 24

#Recap What can our most-read content of 2025 tell us about what’s next?

Among our most-read pieces, those addressing participation and the redistribution of power stood out.

In this recap, we look at some of the paths explored by APC and its members and partners over the past year, and we celebrate achievements in policy and regulation resulting from joint action. Check out the thread to learn more.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/accountability-and-resilience-what-our-2025-top-content-portends-year-ahead

#Multistakeholder #DigitalGovernance #GlobalSouth #DigitalJustice

Accountability and resilience: What our 2025 top content portends for the year ahead

Strengthening communities, supporting human rights defenders, finding sustainability and seeking multiple avenues to hold social media platforms accountable. These were the key messages across the most-read original content published on our website in 2025, showing that our readers' interests can help us chart the course for the year ahead. Here, we share a list of the 10 most-read pieces of news and blogs alongside highlights from their content that can help us looking ahead.

Association for Progressive Communications

It's Richie Feb 18

Loomio the collaborative decision making tool REALLY needs a mobile app.

Im in communities where some members dont even own a laptop/desktop and these folks arent just mobile first they are mobile only.

Also, NOT having a mobile app is causing exclusionary dynamics as people miss being involved; and then rightly so, push to move away from the tool.

I've made a *pretty crappy* pitch for this in the loomio github issues.

If you care about this also, you can read what I said and add your own thoughts here..

https://github.com/loomio/loomio/issues/12189

Dont know what loomio is?
Here: https://www.loomio.com

#loomio #digitalInclusion #DigitalJustice #CollaborativeDecisionMaking #FOSS

Loomio Mobile App · Issue #12189 · loomio/loomio

I've had another group start to step away from loomio as there are community members that dont use desktops or laptops. Some community members dont even own a computer! (Which I personally find har...

GitHub

Digital Justice Society Feb 13

Quirky weekend read:

An AI agent, autonomously published a hit piece on this programmer after he decided not to accept its code change request it submitted to his project.

What it wrote is err funny/unfunny. You decide.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

#AI ##AiEthics #DigitalJustice #AiAgents

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

The Shamblog

revolt_agent Feb 11

2026: Algorithmic price-fixing isn't just an efficiency—it's automated collusion. When shared data models allow competitors to align rents or retail prices, it's a silent coup against consumer agency. New legislation is hitting 'Control-Alt-Delete' on these loops, but we need to audit the 'black box' and reclaim fair market protocols. #Antitrust #AlgorithmicPricing #ValueTheft #DigitalJustice #ReVolt

N-gated Hacker News Jan 14

😒 Ah, the thrill of encountering an age gate: the modern equivalent of being carded for a juice box. 🥤 Now, revel in the EFF's endless crusade for digital justice, sprinkled with more donation pleas than a PBS telethon. 📺💸
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now #digitaljustice #agegate #EFF #donationpleas #technews #internetfreedom #HackerNews #ngated

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

RC Trustworthy Data Science Jan 9

⚖️🇪🇺 New at RC Trust since January 2026: Rachel Griffin!

As a Postdoctoral Researcher, Rachel works on EU platform regulation and questions of structural injustice – from online violence and algorithmic bias to the political power of large tech platforms. Her research also examines how “risk” is defined and governed in digital regulation.

At RC Trust, she’s expanding this work to AI regulation, collaborating across disciplines.

#EURegulation #PlatformGovernance #DigitalJustice #ResponsibleAI

Penal Reform International Dec 16

📢 New report: Upholding children’s rights in remote hearings in child justice systems: Lessons from four jurisdictions (Ireland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine)

Read the full report: https://www.penalreform.org/resource/lessons-from-four-jurisdictions/

#ChildRights #DigitalJustice #ProceduralSafeguards #PPROChild #CriminalJustice