You and me both. And Brendan too!

O wow, awesome baking skills! Big congratulations 🥰

Thank you @daphnek.bsky.social, best promo ever 💙

@aleksandraq.bsky.social and @jpquintais.bsky.social have put out what is sure to be the definitive work on must-carry laws in the EU.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please let me in! Should children be banned from social media? - CiTiP blog This blogpost is the part. 1 of a trilogy. It provides an overview of the current legislative initiatives imposing age restrictions on social media and evaluates them from a children’s right perspecti...

🚨 New Blog Post by @msas25.bsky.social

From Australia’s bans to Europe’s push for mandatory age verification, lawmakers are reshaping how children access social media. But do these measures truly protect children or risk excluding them from vital online opportunities?

#ChildRights #OnlineSafety

Significant new CJEU decision on online marketplaces, GDPR, eCommerce Directive liability shields and the relationship between them. curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

I wrote a blogpost about the use of Generative #AI in #education and how it might adversly affect #democracy in three ways: cognitively, socially and politically.

You can read it on the @icon-s.bsky.social Blog: www.iconnectblog.com/the-broader-...

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Ahead of tomorrow's hearing on European "censorship" of Americans under the Digital Services Act, I have a new blog post explaining why that is not a thing.

You can get the gist in about two minutes of skimming the bold text, or stay for the details.

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cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.

To be clear, for teenagers this is basically the equivalent of banning them from watching television or reading the news

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen said the Commission doesn’t “rule out” postponing parts of the AI Act, citing the need for standards before rules apply. Czechia called for a 2-year delay, Germany expressed openness, & Spain warned against deregulation.
www.mlex.com/mlex/artific...

CPDP.ai 2025 - The DSA as a tool in the fight against gender based violence YouTube video by CPDPConferences

Back at #CPDP this year to discuss the DSA as a Tool in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence. And #EthicalPorn. Organised & moderated by Prof @ggf.bsky.social, together w/ Elisabetta Stringhi, @ashaoallen.bsky.social & Farieha Aziz. See the recording m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn6Q...

Children should not have access to pornographic content.

Today, the Commission opens DSA probes into Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX & Xvideos. They should:

- prevent kids from accessing their services.
- assess and mitigate risks

Minor protection online remains our top priority.

europa.eu/!Y9488W

Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…

Gikii 2025 in lovely Amsterdam has extended its CfP till May 31. Sept 11-12 th at IViR. Get your geek on and set your geek clogs tapping! No i don’t know what i mean either 😂 www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone.

So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment.

It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/

expertvoicestogether.org

✨ Join us on June 4 & 5, 2025 for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference “Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies” ✨
👉 🔗 Register now: www.weizenbaum-conference.de

#Democracy #Empowerment #Community #Power #DigitalResearch #WIConf25

⚡ Applications are now open for our next internship round.

Join ECPMF for three months in Leipzig and work on real-world media freedom and human rights projects: ecpmf-sce-mbh.jobs.personio.de/job/1433706?...

Series of veraAI webinars highlights research on AI against disinformation Since September 2022, the EBU has been participating in veraAI, a Horizon Europe project that develops AI-based tools against disinformation. Join us in our webinar series about the research behind th...

Read more at @ebu.ch about our webinar series. And view all editions on demand if you like!

EMIF launches SAFE Initiative The initiative SAFE: Support and Assistance Facility for Experts is open permanently for applications until 27 Feb 2025.

Sadly needed. Initiative (pilot) to support counter-disinformation professionals: fact checkers, journalists, researchers.

Assistance for fx legal aid, digital security, psychological support, emergency training, and other urgent needs.

gulbenkian.pt/emifund/news...

A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11 (Politico)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

Careers Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? If so, you might be a great fit for our team.

CDT Europe is hiring in Brussels! We’ve got two open roles and we’d love your help spreading the word. 👇 cdt.org/careers/

The Paragon case: Walking the fine line between press freedom and national security in Italy and the EU - CiTiP blog The Italian government has recently been at the center of a controversy, due to its alleged role in surveilling journalists and other members of the civil society with military spyware. This blog post...

📣New blog post!

Flavia Giglio discusses the legal implications of the Paragon case, concerning the alleged involvement of the Italian government in the surveillance of journalists and other members of civil society by means of a military spyware.

Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested.

Deadline 9th of May

#digitalcriminology #surveillance

jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card? Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident.

I wrote about the surreal experience of teaching the First Amendment right now on a green card, teaching lofty doctrine while the government is rounding up people like me for things they say

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

John Oliver sued by healthcare boss he rebuked on air over 'bowel movement' comments A former health insurance boss has taken legal action against 'Last Week Tonight' host John Oliver, filing a defamation lawsuit against the Emmy winner.

The lawsuit, reviewed by The Times, alleges Oliver and “Last Week Tonight” producer Partially Important Productions linked Morley to a drastic decrease in Medicaid services and accused him of thinking “it’s ok if people have s— on them for days.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Quote: “Now, we will see if the Anti-SLAPP Directive is robust enough to protect European civil society actors from abusive lawsuits.”

"Silencing Greenpeace"

A North Dakota jury has ruled that Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars over pipeline protests.

CHRISTINA ECKES and PHILLIP PAIEMENT argue: The Greenpeace case is a significant test for the EU's Anti-SLAPP Directive.

verfassungsblog.de/greenpeace-s...

Download File: 2025-03-25_Testimony_Franks | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

My written testimony for yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called "censorship industrial complex," which is more detailed than my opening statement, can be downloaded here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/202...

Join us for a discussion on the Ethics of #GenerativeAI in Research and its societal implications!

The event takes place tomorrow, Tuesday 25/03, 12:00-14:00 (with a sandwich lunch) at KU Leuven Heverlee campus.

Info: www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleu...

Registration: www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleu...

Last Monday 100 CEOs of European digital/tech companies wrote to EC to offer support for a #digital_sovereignty strategy.

This the time to move. #EuroStack. 1/