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#FollowTheMoney requested access to an unredacted version of #X’s first #DigitalServicesAct risk report from the @EUCommission – a request that the EU executive denied.

After the request, the Commission updated its internal rules to generally presume such reports to be confidential.

The European #Ombudsman found this to be “unreasonable” and that it amounted to maladministration.

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-watchdog-slams-commission-over-x?share=1mY%2B4H%2ByW2F6Ad9Pgd%2BTdoFEAsvMSz869pZOp7URYWEzHEAyIZHyhccNPphfWlM%3D

Watchdog slams EU executive for hiding user risks on Elon Musk’s X

Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism

Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism
75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.
Free speech is the lifeblood of democracy. As more of our lives take place in digital spaces, it's important to protect our right to speak out about the government online and anywhere else. https://takebackctrl.org/stay-loud

When our political class claim that we need to attend to the needs & interests of the rich because if we don't they'll move, or stop innovating, or become disincentivized.... what I actually hear is a dismissal, a downgrading & a general devaluing of the work the rest of society's (real) workers do to keep the UK working day in day out.

In the world of pandering to the rich, normal people are seen as second class, second-level contributors to society.

*We* aren't the parasites!

#politics

Target was selling American Girl doll costumes so I'd like to remind everyone about who did it first. https://beige.party/@Alice/109922682959201378
Alice McFlurry :bc: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The new “historical” American Girl doll was just released and I realized I pretty much had most of the clothes in my closet already, so please forgive me for this terrifying side-by-side.

beige.party

Reminder: a person in the RICHEST 0.1 percent causes more carbon pollution in one DAY than someone in the BOTTOM 50 percent does in a whole YEAR.

The high carbon lifestyles of the super rich are burning through the world’s remaining carbon budget and costing us our future.

When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So

The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing such content. Online...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Hey people who run their own PeerTube servers 👋

There is a little-publicised feature in PeerTube which lets servers subscribe to a shared "allowlist" of good servers to federate with. (You can also manually federate with additional servers that aren't on the list.)

Would there be any interest in setting up such a shared list so that PeerTube admins can easily find other nice/safe servers to federate with?

#PeerTube #PeerTubeAdmin #FediAdmin

Yesterday, federal judge John McConnell of the district court of Rhode Island issued written order requiring the Trump regime to fully fund November SNAP benefits by tomorrow or in the alternative, and assuming it can do so reasonably, to exercise its discretion to fund partially and do so by Wednesday. As with earlier order from a different SNAP case, I expect Trump regime to appeal, no money to flow this week. 1/ #LawFedi
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.60750/gov.uscourts.rid.60750.19.0.pdf
“Driving to the golf course I was offended by the sight of homeless people and so have ordered their removal from the city” should honestly be getting more play.