Great to see @eurosky.social launch access to PDS accounts for AT Protocol hosted entirely on EU servers today. We were pleased to be able to support the initiative with legal advice on EU data/platform law in its early stages.
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It’s always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee”
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in Sweden at a recent board meeting moved to exclude Meta as a member of IAB Sweden. The board claimed during a meeting that Meta is not doing enough to prevent fraudulent ads.” www.mediapost.com/publications...
“The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda”
- www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...
Can’t believe you skipped youtu.be/2b_KfAGiglc?...
X isn’t being penalised for hosting lawful speech. It is being penalised for business practices that make fraud easier and transparency harder. In any other sector, a product that enables impersonation or conceals the identity of advertisers would be recalled.
(3)Preventing researchers to scrutinize what is going on on its platform. X imposed unnecessary barriers and rejected valid applications from eligible researchers. A platform that calls itself a champion of transparency shouldn’t be afraid of independent scrutiny. What is there to hide?
X not only did not want to address these issues, but actively wants to prevent scrutiny in the fraud that its platform enables.
(2) A broken advertising transparency system
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.
(1) Misleading “verification” that enables impersonation scams: X turned the blue check into a paid badge without ensuring any meaningful verification. That design choice makes it dramatically easier for fraudsters to pose as real individuals, brands, or authorities.
The Commission’s findings focus on three failures of a broken product that have nothing to do with the opinions people express on the platform:
Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
This is real news. Reporters, please report on it.
ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech.
It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.
