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‱‱‱ Chat Control 2, datalagring, bakdörrar till kryptering, Ă„ldersgrĂ€nser för sociala medier, ny lagstiftning om hat och hot och en byrĂ„kratisk »demokratisköld« Ă€r nĂ„gra av frĂ„gorna EU driver 2026. ‱‱‱ HĂ€r följer nĂ„gra frĂ„gor som rör internet som Ă€r pĂ„ gĂ„ng i EU under 2026. Första halvĂ„ret Ă€r Cypern ordförandeland i ministerrĂ„det och andra halvĂ„ret Irland. ‱ Chat Control 2 EU:s ministerrĂ„d tvingades dra tillbaka idĂ©n om obligatorisk client-side-scanning med spionprogram i alla telefoner och datorer. IstĂ€llet vill man i huvudsak fortsĂ€tta den frivilliga skanning efter olagligt innehĂ„ll som mĂ„nga meddelandetjĂ€nster Ă€gnar sig Ă„t redan idag (Chat Conrol 1). Detta Ă€r inte heller oproblematiskt – dĂ„ det rör sig om urskiljningslös övervakning av alla anvĂ€ndares meddelanden (om Ă€n med samtycke i anvĂ€ndarvillkoren) utan misstanke om brott. MinisterrĂ„det vill Ă€ven ha en Ă„ldersgrĂ€ns för meddelande-appar. Nu vidtar trilogförhandlingar mellan EU:s ministerrĂ„d, Europaparlamentet (som sĂ€ger nej till Chat Control 2 i dess centrala delar) och EU-kommissionen. De Ă€r planerade till 26 februari, 4 maj och 29 juni. ‱ Datalagring Datalagring kan bli en av Ă„rets stora frĂ„gor. 2014 upphĂ€vdes EU:s dĂ„varande datalagringsdirektiv av EU-domstolen som – enkelt uttryckt – slog fast principen: Övervaka dem som misstĂ€nks för brott – inte alla andra, hela tiden. Nu gör man ett försök att lansera ett nytt direktiv. Kommissionen har redan flaggat för att ett förslag Ă€r pĂ„ gĂ„ng. Och medlemsstaterna i ministerrĂ„det Ă€r pĂ„drivande. Enligt rĂ„dets arbetsdokument vill man utöka datalagringen frĂ„n att »bara« gĂ€lla telefonsamtal, SMS, e-postmeddelanden, uppkopplingar och mobilpositioner till bland annat följande: Alla meddelanden pĂ„ alla meddelandetjĂ€nster och i alla meddelande-appar. IP-telefoni, molntjĂ€nster och VPN-uppkopplingar. Dina aktiviteter pĂ„ sociala media, Spotify, Youtube och Netflix. Dina bestĂ€llningar i tjĂ€nsteappar som Fodora och Uber. Med mera. Man vill helt enkelt hĂ„lla koll pĂ„ dig. ‱ Krypterade meddelanden NĂ€rbeslĂ€ktat med datalagringen Ă€r EU:s stĂ€ndiga kamp mot totalstrĂ€ckskrypterad (E2EE) kommunikation, inom ramen för projekten Going Dark och Protect EU. Ur EU-kommissionens fĂ€rdplan: »Under 2026 kommer kommissionen att lĂ€gga fram en teknisk fĂ€rdplan för kryptering för att identifiera och utvĂ€rdera lösningar som möjliggör laglig Ă„tkomst till krypterade data för brottsbekĂ€mpande myndigheter, samtidigt som cybersĂ€kerheten och de grundlĂ€ggande rĂ€ttigheterna skyddas. Kommissionen kommer ocksĂ„ att stödja utvecklingen av ny dekrypteringsteknik för att förse Europol med nĂ€sta generations dekrypteringskapacitet (frĂ„n och med 2030).« Detta innebĂ€r i praktiken ett politiskt krav pĂ„ bakdörrar – Ă€ven om ordet aldrig anvĂ€nds. (Den svenska regeringen har valt att avvakta med egen lagstiftning i Ă€mnet – som föreslagits av en utredning – i vĂ€ntan pĂ„ EU-kommissionens förslag.) ‱ ÅldersgrĂ€nser för sociala medier Irland har lĂ„tit meddela att man ser Ă„ldersgrĂ€nser för sociala medier som en prioriterad frĂ„ga för sitt ordförandeskap i EU:s ministerrĂ„d under andra halvĂ„ret 2026. Även Europaparlamentet har uttalat sig för Ă„ldersgrĂ€nser. Detta kan bli en stor och omstridd frĂ„ga, dĂ„ det tycks ha gĂ„tt politiskt mode i den. Och Ă„ldersgrĂ€nser krĂ€ver Ă„ldersverifiering, av alla. DĂ€rför rullas en »mini-plĂ„nbok« (app) för Ă„ldersverifiering ut i EU i vĂ€ntan pĂ„ unionens riktiga digitala ID/wallet. Vilken alla kan komma att behöva ladda ner och anvĂ€nda för att bekrĂ€fta sin Ă„lder pĂ„ sociala medier. (Den tycks dock inte vara kompatibel med alla operativsystem.) ‱ Hat & hot blir EU-brott LĂ„ngsamt mals frĂ„gan om att göra hat och hot till ett »EU-brott« med gemensam definition och gemensamt lĂ€gsta straff genom EU:s beslutsapparat. Vilket Ă€r knepigt, dĂ„ hat Ă€r en subjektiv kĂ€nsla medan hot Ă€r en reell handling. Vi har tidigare rapporterat: »Europaparlamentet menar att vad som i sammanhanget skall anses utgöra hat ”must not be limited only to certain grounds or motivations”. Vilket lĂ„ter som ett vĂ€ldigt brett mandat.Parlamentet efterlyser Ă€ven en ”holistisk respons” och en ”multidimensionell approach”. Samt att kommissionen rekommenderas ha en ”open ended approach” till vad som skall listas som hat och hot.« Vilket kĂ€nns som att man öppnar dörren för nya inskrĂ€nkningar av yttrandefriheten. EU-brott krĂ€ver normalt hög grad av precision enligt legalitetsprincipen. Vilket Ă€n sĂ„ lĂ€nge saknas. Förslaget lĂ€r stĂ„ i strid med vad Europakonventionen om de mĂ€nskliga rĂ€ttigheterna och EU:s mĂ€nniskorĂ€ttsstadga har att sĂ€ga om yttrandefriheten: »Var och en har rĂ€tt till yttrandefrihet. Denna rĂ€tt innefattar Ă„siktsfrihet samt frihet att ta emot och sprida uppgifter och tankar utan offentlig myndighets inblandning och oberoende av territoriella grĂ€nser.« Med tanke pĂ„ hur mĂ„nga politiker, samhĂ€llsdebattörer och surkart som vill hindra olika former av yttranden Ă€r EU:s planer orovĂ€ckande. ‱ EU:s Demokratisköld Om EU:s Digital Services Act öppnade för utomrĂ€ttslig censur online genom diffusa formuleringar slĂ„r EU:s nya »demokratisköld« upp porten pĂ„ vid gavel. Vi har tidigare beskrivit denna som ett försök att försvara demokratin med byrĂ„krati. Man kommer att skapa en helt ny administrativ apparat för att kontrollera det fria ordet i EU – European Centre for Democratic Resilience. Den skall samarbeta med civilsamhĂ€llets organisationer, researchers, akademien, fact checkers och media – för att »sĂ€kerstĂ€lla integriteten i informationsmiljön«. Men det Ă€r lĂ„ngt ifrĂ„n allt. UtifrĂ„n förarbetena har vi tidigare noterat
 »För koordination vill man förstĂ€rka EU:s »Rapid Alert System (RAS)«. Man efterlyser Ă€ven en ny oberoende EU-struktur för detta syfte. Denna skall bygga pĂ„ det arbete som utförs av EU:s utrikestjĂ€nst, European External Action Service (EEAS) och Europaparlamentet. En minimistandard för att bekĂ€mpa otillbörlig pĂ„verkan skall fastslĂ„s. Detta i samarbete med EU:s Intelligence and Situation Centre (EU INTCEN). Ett verktyg i sammanhanget Ă€r EU:s Digital Services Act (DSA) och unionens Regulation on the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising. Man aviserar Ă€ven en kommande Digital Fairness Act och ett nytt större digitalt lagstiftningspaket. Rapporten pekar Ă€ven pĂ„ EU:s European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) och dess Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). Man vill lyfta fram civilsamhĂ€llets olika organisationer för faktagranskning som European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) och EU:s eget European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). Rapporten vill ge dessa större resurser. Man aviserar Ă€ven ett nytt European Network of Fact-Checkers samt en European Civil Society Strategy. Rapporten lyfter fram unionens European Internal Security Strategy och European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).« Men det rĂ€cker inte
 »Man vĂ€lkomnar EU:s »ambitious binding ICT supply chain security legislation« och »stronger regulatory framework to the FDI Screening Regulation« kopplad till dess Cyber Resilience Act och Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening regulation. Det reviderade NIS2-direktivet stĂ€ller bindande krav pĂ„ cybersĂ€kerhet för samhĂ€llsviktig och digital infrastruktur. Man uppmanar medlemsstaterna att följa det bĂ€ttre, liksom EU:s Cyber Resilience Act och Cyber Solidarity Act inom ramen för dess ProtectEU Strategy. Europol ges en viktig roll och man vill utöka dess mandat (igen). Även European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) ses som en viktig aktör. European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) och European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) likasĂ„. Även G7, NATO, FN, EuroparĂ„det och OECD nĂ€mns som viktiga aktörer. Man anser att EU:s stĂ€ndigt utvidgade regler mot penningtvĂ€tt kan komma till nytta i sammanhanget.« Detta kĂ€nns mer som en arbetsmarknadspolitisk stimulansĂ„tgĂ€rd för byrĂ„krater. Allt detta kommer garanterat att göra debatten om yttrandefrihet i EU – bĂ„de i och utanför EU – Ă€n mer intensiv, dĂ„ syftet med allt det ovanstĂ„ende Ă€r att begrĂ€nsa det fria ordet. Detta Ă€r nĂ„gra exempel pĂ„ frĂ„gor som rör internets frihet, yttrandefriheten och rĂ€tten till privatliv som Ă€r pĂ„ gĂ„ng under 2026. Du följer utvecklingen hĂ€r. (Bloggpost med relevanta lĂ€nkar i kommentarerna.)
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🚹ETHEREUM HAS SOLVED A BLOCKCHAIN TRILEMMA Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum has finally cracked the blockchain trilemma after a decade of work. Through zero-knowledge EVMs & PeerDAS, Ethereum can now achieve decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth all together.
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Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum. These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network. To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far: BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated* Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains. This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: github.com/ethereum/research
 , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here. Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out: * In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node * In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe * In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network A third piece of this is distributed block building. A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that. Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness. Onward.
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Europe's largest insect farm goes bankrupt despite receiving almost €200 million in public money. The French company ƾnsect has declared bankruptcy and entered judicial liquidation. The project had been presented as a key piece in the transformation of the European food system.
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Är Ni det minsta intresserade av informationshantering, tex ChatControl inom EU behöver Ni följa @femtejuli
EU kan censurera information och blockera sociala medier – via medlemsstaterna, efter rĂ€ttslig prövning. Och sĂ„ finns de informella sĂ€tten
 femtejuli.se/2025/12/28/dsa-

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If you ever feel cynical about crypto and it's future, watch this video He literally explains why crypto matters and why we're all here:
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From yesterday Australians are now required to upload their ID to use a search engine. đŸ€ŠđŸ€Š
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Labeling Nazism “right-wing” while ignoring its socialist core is a deliberate communist tactic to shield Marxism from its totalitarian parallels. Key evidence: ‱ Party name: National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). ‱ Hitler: “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system.” ‱ Policies matched Communist Manifesto planks: ◩#2: Heavy progressive income tax (Nazi rates up to 50–95%). ◩#5: State centralization of credit (Reichsbank fully subordinated to Hitler). ◩#6: State control of communication/transport (railways, radio, press, post centralized). ◩#7: State-owned factories and directed production (Reichswerke Göring, Four-Year Plan). ◩#8: Mandatory labor (Reich Labor Service; millions in forced labor). ◩#10: Free compulsory state education tied to industrial/vocational needs. Nazism was collectivist and interventionist—far closer to Marxism than libertarianism. This reframing uses three communist strategies: 1. Accusatory Inversion (Stalin-era): Project your own authoritarian traits onto the “right.” 2. Ideological Subversion (Bezmenov): Distort language/history to blur facts. 3. Cultural Hegemony (Gramsci): Dominate academia/media to redefine the spectrum. Result: Leftist totalitarianism gets sanitized. Reject the rewrite. Reject the EU’s modern version of the same playbook. đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș💀 Freedom of speech means no state control over words.
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“In the first half of 2025, the EU blocked 44 million posts”
8 million — That’s how many social media posts that the EU deletes every *month.* These don’t include posts from accounts - like Russian media - that are completely banned in the EU. What are these snowflakes so afraid of? DSA - Digital Services Act:
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Exactly - I’m actually impressed the banks can lobby for this with a straight face and not get kicked out of senator’s offices. It takes some serious mental gymnastics. We won’t let anyone reopen GENIUS. Red line issue for us. And will keep advocating for our customers and the crypto industry. My prediction is the banks will actually flip and be lobbying FOR the ability to pay interest and yield on stablecoins in a few years, once they realize how big the opportunity is for them. So it’s 100% wasted effort on their part (in addition to being unethical). The innovators dilemma is undefeated.
Banks earn 4.4% on reserves parked at the Fed... They pay you 0.01% on your savings account. And now they're lobbying Congress to make sure stablecoins can't offer you anything better. The GENIUS Act already settled this. Congress spent months hashing out a compromise. Stablecoin issuers can't pay interest directly, but platforms and third parties can offer rewards. Done. Finished. Everyone shook hands. That was a few months ago. Now the banking lobby wants to reopen it. They're calling it a "safety concern." They're worried about "community bank deposits." Independent research shows zero evidence of disproportionate deposit outflows from community banks. Meanwhile, the big banks are sitting on trillions in reserves, collecting interest from the Fed, passing almost none of it to customers. How this plays out for the most part is that your bank takes your deposit, parks it at the Federal Reserve, earns 4%+ on it, gives you basically nothing. A stablecoin platform wants to share some yield with you and suddenly that's a threat to financial stability? We saw three different lobbying pushes on this bill in the last year & every single time, the framing is consumer protection, but in reality, every single time, the actual effect would be protecting big banks and incumbent margins. What you should actually watch for: -Any amendment that bans "rewards" broadly rather than just direct interest payments from issuers. -Whether the same legislators worried about stablecoin yields have ever questioned why bank savings rates haven't moved in fifteen years. -Who's funding the "community bank protection" messaging (Usually not community banks lol) If Congress caves on this, it sets a (not good) pattern. Pass a framework, let the incumbents lobby it back open, chip away until the new entrants can't compete, and crypto companies aren't the only ones watching. Every fintech considering U.S. markets is taking notes on whether legislation here actually sticks. We signed on to this letter to show our support and conviction in moving the industry forward in the United States. The next six months will show whether the U.S. wants competitive payments infrastructure or protected banking margins under the guise of "stability" as always, thanks to @BlockchainAssn for their hard work in the industry alongside @standwithcrypto & @na_blockchain special shoutout to @TBC_Jessi @512mace & @wadepreston for pushing this along as well
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Banks earn 4.4% on reserves parked at the Fed... They pay you 0.01% on your savings account. And now they're lobbying Congress to make sure stablecoins can't offer you anything better. The GENIUS Act already settled this. Congress spent months hashing out a compromise. Stablecoin issuers can't pay interest directly, but platforms and third parties can offer rewards. Done. Finished. Everyone shook hands. That was a few months ago. Now the banking lobby wants to reopen it. They're calling it a "safety concern." They're worried about "community bank deposits." Independent research shows zero evidence of disproportionate deposit outflows from community banks. Meanwhile, the big banks are sitting on trillions in reserves, collecting interest from the Fed, passing almost none of it to customers. How this plays out for the most part is that your bank takes your deposit, parks it at the Federal Reserve, earns 4%+ on it, gives you basically nothing. A stablecoin platform wants to share some yield with you and suddenly that's a threat to financial stability? We saw three different lobbying pushes on this bill in the last year & every single time, the framing is consumer protection, but in reality, every single time, the actual effect would be protecting big banks and incumbent margins. What you should actually watch for: -Any amendment that bans "rewards" broadly rather than just direct interest payments from issuers. -Whether the same legislators worried about stablecoin yields have ever questioned why bank savings rates haven't moved in fifteen years. -Who's funding the "community bank protection" messaging (Usually not community banks lol) If Congress caves on this, it sets a (not good) pattern. Pass a framework, let the incumbents lobby it back open, chip away until the new entrants can't compete, and crypto companies aren't the only ones watching. Every fintech considering U.S. markets is taking notes on whether legislation here actually sticks. We signed on to this letter to show our support and conviction in moving the industry forward in the United States. The next six months will show whether the U.S. wants competitive payments infrastructure or protected banking margins under the guise of "stability" as always, thanks to @BlockchainAssn for their hard work in the industry alongside @standwithcrypto & @na_blockchain special shoutout to @TBC_Jessi @512mace & @wadepreston for pushing this along as well
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I skuggan av det fallna tyska nationalsocialistiska riket och Stalins kommunistiska terrorvĂ€lde i Sovjetunionen skrev Hannah Arendt i början av 50-talet sitt standardverk om totalitarismens ursprung. Ett par saker tycker jag Ă€r speciellt trĂ€ffande sedda i relation till dagens samhĂ€lle – och det övervaknings- och kontrollsamhĂ€lle som rullas ut. Den första noteringen Ă€r att vĂ€gen till helvetet inte nödvĂ€ndigtvis Ă€r stensatt med varesig goda eller onda föresatser. Den kan lika gĂ€rna vara stensatt med inga föresatser alls. Det vill sĂ€ga att tanklöshet, bristande konsekvensanalys, frĂ„nvaron av kritiskt tĂ€nkande, lĂ€ttja, okunskap och oförmĂ„ga ocksĂ„ kan leda till förtryck. NĂ€r man inte ser det komma. En annan viktig punkt Ă€r att man inte kan utgĂ„ frĂ„n att förtryck kommer att komma i samma gestalt som förra gĂ„ngen. Det behöver inte vara brunskjortor eller röda fanor. Det behöver inte vara spektakulĂ€rt. Det Ă€r fullt möjligt att skapa ett totalitĂ€rt samhĂ€lle utifrĂ„n de bĂ€sta och vackraste intentioner (eller som sagt inga föresatser alls). Missriktad vĂ€lvilja Ă€r kĂ€llan till mycket av vĂ€rldens elĂ€nde. Utopiska visioner kan vara en varningssignal. Men det kan lika gĂ€rna handla om att vĂ„ra demokratiskt valda ledare vill skydda folket frĂ„n terrorism, klimatförĂ€ndringar eller »nĂ€that« – eller vad det politiska modet för tillfĂ€llet pĂ„bjuder. Intentioner Ă€r en sak, men det Ă€r metod och utfall som rĂ€knas. Den tredje varningen lyder »Brott mot de mĂ€nskliga rĂ€ttigheterna kan alltid rĂ€ttfĂ€rdigas med förevĂ€ndningen att det rĂ€tta Ă€r lika med det som Ă€r bra eller nyttigt för helheten i kontrast till delarna.« Allt gĂ„r att motivera. Hitler och Stalin ansĂ„g sig – utifrĂ„n sina respektive ideologiska vĂ€rldsbilder – ha sina folks och lĂ€nders bĂ€sta framför ögonen. Total övervakning av alla mĂ€nniskor överallt hela tiden skulle garanterat minska brottsligheten, öka andelen uppklarade brott och rĂ€dda liv. Det skulle rent av kunna vara bra för samhĂ€llet pĂ„ totalen, sett ur vissa perspektiv. Men det vore ett outhĂ€rdligt samhĂ€lle att leva i. NĂ„gonstans mĂ„ste man dra en grĂ€ns. Det Ă€r dĂ€rför vi har de mĂ€nskliga rĂ€ttigheterna – för att tillförsĂ€kra individen frihet och rĂ€tt. Det Ă€r dĂ€rför orovĂ€ckande nĂ€r vĂ„ra politiker i mĂ„nga smĂ„ steg inskrĂ€nker vĂ„ra fri- och rĂ€ttigheter. I namn av det ena eller andra. Ytterst Ă€r paradoxen att ett öppet och fritt samhĂ€lle med en demokratisk rĂ€ttsstat kan avskaffa sig sjĂ€lv. I god demokratisk ordning. Och med de Ă€dlaste förevĂ€ndningar.
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EU vill »vaccinera« befolkningen mot skadlig information redan innan den sprids. femtejuli.se/2025/12/26/eu-p

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Sanctioned censorship operative Imran Ahmed personally led the charge to get Zerohedge and many US websites defunded, while even working with US policymakers to do it.
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The easy ability to call @grok on twitter is probably the biggest thing after community notes that has been positive for the truth-friendliness of this platform. The fact that you don't see ahead of time how grok will respond is key here - I've seen many situations where someone calls on grok expecting their crazy political belief to be confirmed and grok comes along and rugs them.
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There is no class of person more smug than a Eurocrat, and no one with less to be smug about. The EU does not have freedom of speech. The EU has permitted and unpermitted speech. The relevant definition is in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which states the right to free speech may be curtailed for: - national security - territorial integrity - public health - prevention of disorder or crime - protection of health or morals(!) - protection of rights and reputations - protection of confidential information - protection of judges' authority & independence. - anything else "necessary in a democratic society." The EU is extremely keen on exercising its right to restrict speech. This is in large part because its leaders have often tried - and failed badly at - national democratic politics. Consequently they loathe the people they govern. Ms von der Leyen, for example, used to be the German Defense Minister. Under her watch, German soldiers joined NATO exercises using broomsticks instead of guns, because no guns were available at the time. She was then caught up in a major defense contract corruption scandal. When the Bundestag launched an investigation, she deleted her phone records and cited "national security." The Eurocrat loves a corrupt failure, so naturally she became President of the Commission. Sending your most hated ministers to the EU is the German equivalent of the Vatican relocating child-diddlers to a small village in Botswana. The Eurocrat nonetheless believes it is born to rule - or at least regulate - the world. It is extremely maternalistic and it both hates and fears innovation, because innovation requires freedom, and the Eurocrat does not understand it. It is implacably hostile to the Anglosphere tradition, which holds that freedom is the default position. The Eurocrat believes that everything is presumptively illegal unless it says otherwise. In the last 50 years, the US has built 6 tech companies with a trillion dollar market cap. In that time, the EU Commission admits it has not built a single €100bn tech company from scratch. It's so bad that in 2024, the EU made more from slapping specious fines on American tech companies than it made in taxes from its entire domestic digital/internet economy. In 2008, the EU's GDP was 110% the size of the US. It is now around 67%. In that time, the poorest US state has drawn near-level with the richest EU nation. (The Eurocrat response to this is to smugly point at the Colosseum. Which is fitting, as the EU is a ruin, and it cannot recreate the achievements of its ancestors. Americans, meanwhile, build colosseums for college sports.) The Eurocrat then demands the right to "regulate our own space," and by this it means "control what is said online." But it does not have a space to regulate. Everyone uses American tech platforms, because the Eurocrat has made the EU a technological irrelevance. And so the right to self-regulate seamlessly becomes the demand to regulate the American space. By "regulate" it means "fines and censorship." It thinks it has the right to govern the internet. These self-satisfied failures, who create nothing, believe they are entitled to tell Americans what they are allowed to say, to read, and to think. When they're rejected, they puff themselves up, huff a champagne glass full of their own farts, and scold America for refusing to kneel before their betters. The correct response is: Merry Christmas, go fuck yourselves.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of our strong and vibrant European democracy. We are proud of it. We will protect it. Because the @EU_Commission is the guardian of our values.
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Lars Dobos retweeted
NĂ€r Ursula von der Leyen talar om yttrandefrihet lĂ„ter det vackert i teorin. Men nĂ€r hon i nĂ€sta stund liknar det fria ordet vid ett ”virus” och censur vid dess ”vaccin”, krackelerar fasaden. Det blir uppenbart att vi inte lĂ€ngre talar om samma sak; det vi ser Ă€r en semantisk glidning dĂ€r ett ord som stĂ„r för frihet har börjat anvĂ€ndas för att motivera kontroll. För de flesta Ă€r yttrandefriheten enkel: att exempelvis kunna sĂ€ga att det bara finns tvĂ„ kön, att kunna diskutera brottsstatistik mellan vita och svarta, att kunna uttrycka att man vill bevara Sverige svenskt, eller att kunna ifrĂ„gasĂ€tta politiska och ideologiska dogmer - utan att tystas av makten. Men i Bryssel Ă€r friheten villkorad. DĂ€r Ă€r ordet endast fritt sĂ„ lĂ€nge det ryms inom en förutbestĂ€md ideologisk ram. Genom att likna avvikande Ă„sikter vid ett virus förvandlar von der Leyen kritik till en smitta och censur till en medicinsk nödvĂ€ndighet. Man behĂ„ller ordet ”yttrandefrihet” men tömmer det pĂ„ dess substans. NĂ€r byrĂ„kraterna talar om att skydda det demokratiska samtalet, menar de i sjĂ€lva verket att de vill skydda sig sjĂ€lva frĂ„n kritik. Vi bör dĂ€rför komma ihĂ„g: om friheten att tala endast gĂ€ller sĂ„ lĂ€nge man hĂ„ller sig inom maktens ramar, dĂ„ Ă€r det inte lĂ€ngre yttrandefrihet - dĂ„ Ă€r det lydnad. Vi kan dĂ€rför skatta oss lyckliga att Donald Trump vann valet. Han anvĂ€nder nu vĂ€rldens frĂ€msta stormakt som ett brĂ€ckjĂ€rn för att montera ner det globala censurkomplexet och tvinga Bryssel till retrĂ€tt. Det Ă€r den nödvĂ€ndiga motkraft som krĂ€vs för att det fria ordet Ă„terigen ska segra över den överstatliga kontrollen.
So here we have Ursula von der Leyen describing free speech as a virus and censorship as its vaccine.......
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Lars Dobos retweeted
EU threatens action after US sanctions 5 prominent Europeans pressuring US companies to censor. Censorship is the enforcement "muscle" of DEI. The EU made it very profitable. The EU has quietly set up a system of laws that allow them to shake down US companies for cash. The rake so far? Hundreds of millions and likely to grow. Who are these 5? They are not innocent European citizen that the EU press is making them out to be. They are militant, powerful bureaucrats and activists: Thierry Breton - Former EU commissioner, primary Architect for the DSA (Digital Services Act), the legal framework whereby the EU could begin to shakedown US companies for cash, launching the grift. US Role: Vocal demands against X and Musk, including try to stop X publishing the interview with Trump in the 2024 race (election interference). Imran Ahmed - CEO, Center for Countering Digital Hate (think of it as SPLC for EU). Fervent anti-speech advocate, using his organization to target X and other companies with largely cherry picked and misleading data which get wide press coverage. US Role: Uses this to pressure advertisers to cancel ad spends. US advertisers too. Costing over one billion in damages. Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Holdenberg - Co-CEOs of HateAid, (think of it as EU version of our ADL). US Role: They misrepresented "surge" of hate-speech on X, and sued X over failing to remove six (SIX!) posts. They are a "trusted" flagger by the EU, meaning their tainted reports fuel the $ fine machine under the DSA. If they say 6 posts are hate, BAM millions in fines against a social media company. Clare Melford - CEO of UK based Global Disinformation Index. US Impact: Creates lists of websites and ranks them for disinformation, flagging sites like Daily Wire, Federalist and New York Post as high risk for disinfo (yes, US companies). They sell this list of sites to companies like Microsoft (who ditched them later), feeding into US based deboosting and censorship. The total cost to US companies between speech fines, disinformation fines, and loss of advertisers is in the billions already. This is immense, EU gov lead pressure, to silence what YOU can say in the USA, not just worldwide. These speech censorship orgs masquerading and anti-hate and anti-disinformation? They make millions per year. It's one big grift. The TRUE grift. A small set of companies get to determine what the world gets to say (or else face fines and advertiser bans). The US is right to push back on it, and it must be one of this admin's top priorities to protect TRUE democracy.
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Lars Dobos retweeted
EU skall alltsÄ gÄ frÄn de-bunking (bemöta felaktiga pÄstÄenden) till pre-bunking (att bemöta felaktiga pÄstÄenden innan de yttrats). MÄste man dÄ inte i förvÀg veta vad som kommer att sÀgas? Och Àr det inte kontraproduktivt att ducka debatten nÀr nÄgon faktiskt sagt nÄgot galet? SÄ mÄnga frÄgor...
So here we have Ursula von der Leyen describing free speech as a virus and censorship as its vaccine.......
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