Steve HermanMeta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, reports Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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Jos PoortvlietDid you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization?
Here's an example, one of many: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3305889/microsoft-abruptly-cuts-services-chinese-university-genomics-firm
Jan PenfratFor weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.
One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.
https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.
Eugen RochkoStill baffled by the sheer irresponsibility of unleashing the Convincing Lie Generator on the general public. I don’t think there’s a historic precedent save for only maybe the release of teflon into the environment.
Jeff JarvisZeitonline covers the critically important story of the campaign against Wikipedia as nothing less than an "attack on the knowledge of the world" by Musk, Martin, and Heritage.
Angriff auf das Wissen der Welt
https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-04/wikipedia-donald-trump-elon-musk-angriff-autoren
Angriff auf das Wissen der Welt
https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-04/wikipedia-donald-trump-elon-musk-angriff-autoren
Sam FreedmanTheir fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason.
This needs to be shared far and wide:
The digital countermove to Trump tariffs
America’s mid-air dismantling of the global system of trade represents a one-time chance to compete
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic https://on.ft.com/44iHLh3
Five Books“The general public is completely fed up of the current system”
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/citizen-assemblies-hugh-pope/
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/citizen-assemblies-hugh-pope/
Citizens' Assemblies
Around the world, democracies are struggling with angry populations who are fed up with politicians who don't seem to represent them effectively. Fortunately, there's an alternative. Hugh Pope—a veteran reporter on the Middle East who also spent 15 years working for International Crisis Group—introduces us to the growing movement for 'citizens' assemblies', where ordinary people get together to decide what's best for the community. He argues that these assemblies have already been used effectively on important issues that are difficult for politicians to tackle and reveals how the French president, Emmanuel Macron, came to find out about them.
jamesbridleWhat has helped in Europe so far is identifying which institutions will stand firm and help us, and which will cave. Public statements of values and demands, like https://strikegermany.org/, backed by action, and public records of what is occurring (https://www.theleftberlin.com/archive-of-silence/) are vital tools.