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Joris van Hoboken
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(he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
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netzpolitik.bsky.social
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.“
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3h
The second-largest group in the European Parliament is moving to set up an inquiry committee to investigate the EU’s enforcement of digital rules, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.
Socialists push for formal inquiry into enforcement of EU digital rules
Parliament committee would investigate whether EU has done enough to rein in Big Tech.
www.politico.eu
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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foliacivitatis.bsky.social
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...
New cloud service aims to free higher education from Big Tech’s grip
www.folia.nl
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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mathver.bsky.social
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...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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michae.lv
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...
The Obligations of Providers of General-Purpose AI Models Michael Veale1,2 and João Pedro Quintais 2 1Faculty of Laws, University College London 2Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam To appear in Zanfir Fortuna, Malgieri, González Fuster and Mantelero (eds.) The Artificial Intelligence Act — A Thematic Commentary (Hart forthcoming 2026). This version: November 2025. During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. These broadly relate to transparency towards downstream users and relevant regulators, in addition to obligations connected to intellectual property. In this paper, we provide detailed analysis of these new provisions in the context of current technological applications and emerging trajectories, connecting them to computing literature and practice, and the broader context of connected and adjacent legal regimes, in particular copyright and relevant emerging case law. We find that there are a significant number of inclarities, tensions and contradictions both within the text, between the text and other legal regimes, and between the text and guideline documents, such as the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI and recent guidelines by the European Commission. We identify a range of issues with the scoping of the provisions which may undermine its policy goals and create loopholes for regulatory avoidance, such as those relating to non-commercial models, open-source models, and model finetuning along the value chain. We find that the Code of Practice contains significant omissions and misstatements, some of which may present a compliance risk for an entity choosing to rely on the Code. We do not consider the provisions on GPAI models which present a systemic risk, which are dealt with elsewhere in the volume which this work will form a part of. A table of contents for the paper - 47 pages long, covering legislative background, definitions, information/documentation requirements, copyright, demonstration of compliance, exclusions and concluding remarks.
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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coricrider.com
ICYMI! Dutch competition enforcers are piling in to help the 3x new DMA cloud investigations. This is *great* - with the EC team so short-staffed, they badly need reinforcements.

I'd love to see @cmagovuk.bsky.social assist somehow, (despite Brexit/diff markets) given their own cloud study...
translation of a dutch competition authority LinkedIn post: "The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the European Commission are joining forces! The European Commission has launched three investigations into cloud services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). We are participating in a joint investigation team: a form of collaboration between the European Commission and competition authorities that is possible under the DMA. This is the first time we have worked closely together in this way. 🔎 The investigations focus on addressing potential barriers for businesses and consumers in the cloud sector, such as switching barriers, lack of interoperability between cloud services, data access restrictions for business users, and bundling with other cloud providers' services. By removing these barriers for the largest cloud services, European companies will have more opportunities to enter the cloud sector and compete. 📄 The DMA imposes obligations on the largest digital platforms, the so-called gatekeepers. The goal: to protect businesses and consumers, offer more choice, and create growth opportunities for companies in digital markets. The European Commission can take action if gatekeepers violate the rules, for example, with fines. ➡️ Report potential violations by gatekeepers? Report them to us." Original Dutch linkedin announcement re the investigation support: "🤝🏽 De ACM en de Europese Commissie slaan de handen ineen! De Europese Commissie is drie onderzoeken gestart naar clouddiensten onder de Digital Markets Act (DMA). Wij werken daaraan mee in een gezamenlijk onderzoeksteam: een vorm van samenwerking tussen de Europese Commissie en mededingingsautoriteiten die onder de DMA mogelijk is. Het is voor het eerst dat we op deze manier nauw samenwerken. 🔎 De onderzoeken richten zich op het aanpakken van mogelijke belemmeringen voor ondernemers en consumenten in de cloudsector, zoals overstapdrempels, het gebrek aan interoperabiliteit tussen clouddiensten, geen toegang tot data voor zakelijke gebruikers en de bundeling met andere diensten van de cloudaanbieder. Door dit soort belemmeringen weg te nemen voor de grootste clouddiensten, krijgen Europese bedrijven meer kansen om toe te treden tot de cloudsector en te concurreren. 📄 De DMA legt verplichtingen op aan de grootste digitale platforms, de zogenoemde poortwachters. Het doel: ondernemers en consumenten beschermen, meer keuze bieden en zorgen voor groeikansen voor bedrijven op digitale markten. De Europese Commissie kan optreden als poortwachters de regels overtreden, bijvoorbeeld met boetes. ➡️ Signalen over mogelijke overtredingen door poortwachters? Meld het bij ons "
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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alderik.bsky.social
“Two market investigations will assess whether Amazon and Microsoft should be designated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, under the DMA“ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Press corner | European Commission
The European Commission opened three market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
ec.europa.eu
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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retrofrog.bsky.social
Oh my
Japanese people being silly.
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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cdteu.org
📢 New week, new highlight of a member of our Advisory Council!

@jvh.bsky.social is Professor of Information Law at @ivir-uva.bsky.social

He works on law and digital infrastructure, including the intersection of fundamental rights protection & platform governance.

🌟 Excited to have him on board!
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.

My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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hormiga.bsky.social
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
Ridiculous. Cruel. Lawless.
stevevladeck.bsky.social Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21d
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth.

Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Today is the day 🎁

The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY.

This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating …

#dataaccess #commsky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...
New measures unlock access to data from largest online platforms to support research
As of today, new rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will allow researchers to gain unprecedented access to very large online platforms' data to study the societal impact stemming from the plat...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
jvh.bsky.social
"What is your story? You never even told me about a story."

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text: Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs. Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
jvh.bsky.social
Honoured to be part of the new advisory board of @cdteu.org, and excited to get involved in this and learn from the other members and the CDT Europe team
cdteu.org CDT Europe @cdteu.org · Oct 16
📢 Today, CDT Europe is proud to announce the creation of its new Advisory Council, an exciting milestone for our organisation as we strengthen our work at the intersection of #technology, policy, and democracy in Europe.

👇🏻 Read more on our website: cdt.org/insights/cdt...
CDT Europe Announces Inaugural Advisory Council
The Advisory Council Membersto announce the creation of its new Advisory Council, an exciting milestone for our organisation as we strengthen our work at the intersection of technology, policy, and de...
cdt.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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english.lemonde.fr
In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present
In Israeli prisons, hunger and torture are ever-present
Le Monde has collected the accounts of three civilians from the West Bank who were detained for months without trial or judgment and subjected to food deprivation and regular beatings. Two years after the beginning of the war against Gaza, more than 11,000 Palestinians remain incarcerated in Israel.
www.lemonde.fr
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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smachlis.bsky.social
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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sandipto.bsky.social
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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lilianedwards.bsky.social
Very happy to announce brilliant new paper on AI by the wonderful @atoosakz.bsky.social , Phillip Hacker, and er, me, on systemic risk and how it is confusingly differently interpreted through the EU AIA, the DSA and its origin, financial regulation.

Paper at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17878
September 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
This is a REALLY GOOD piece on the challenges of today's attention economy.

Lefty pundits suffer from the same problems and would do well to read it.
September 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM