"None of these arguments, standing alone, strike me as entirely convincing. But the overall argument to allow the DSA to do its work, and not sweep it aside in favor of governing online content using the GDPR, is compelling."
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Mail an deine Uni-Mannheim-Adresse ist raus.
Warum private Medien nicht auf das Ende des ORF hoffen sollten: mit @leonido.bsky.social www.moment.at/story/privat...
1 BvR 2152/25: Heißer Kandidat für eine Grundsatzentscheidung zum europäisierten Plattformverfassungsrecht. Stellungnahmen wurden unter Rekurs auf DSA-Begriffe u.a. erbeten zur grundrechtlichen Bedeutsamkeit v. Plattformen & zu gesellschaftl. Auswirkungen von Desinfo.
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Case note on #CJEU #Russmedia: I don’t think that the reasoning behind the decision under the E-Commerce Directive can be transferred to the #DSA.
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Interessant Rn. 361, 368: Der EuGH erkennt die in Art. 10 II EMRK aufgezählten legitimen Einschränkungsgründe der Medienfreiheit (trotz Art. 52 GRCh) als abschließend auch i.R.d. Art. 11 GRCh an.
"E.U. officials are left weighing whether enforcing the bloc’s technology rules is worth further irritating the United States, especially as issues like American involvement in the war in Ukraine hang in the balance."
Screenshot einer Pressemitteilung des EGMR: Decision suspending judge from duties discouraged her, and other judges, from speaking out against judicial reforms In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Morawiec v. Poland (application no. 46238/20) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 6 § 1 (access to court), Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Ms Morawiec is a judge. Since 2018 she has been the President of the Judges’ Association Themis, which has publicly criticised the Government’s reforms affecting the judiciary. The case concerns rulings by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court (“the DCSC”) relating to Ms Morawiec’s immunity from prosecution and to her suspension from judicial duties, which she argues were taken in reaction to her public criticisms of the judicial reforms and a successful civil action she had brought against the Minister of Justice in 2017. The Court held, as it had in previous cases, that the DCSC was not a “tribunal established by law”. It found that the measures taken by the authorities to lift Ms Morawiec’s immunity and to suspend her from judicial duties could be characterised as a strategy aimed at intimidating her and that those measures must have had a “chilling effect”, discouraging not only her, but also other judges from participating in public debate on legislative reforms.
EGMR: Suspendierung der poln. Richterin und Richterfunktionärin Morawiec war prima facie eine Folge ihrer Kritik an den "Reformen", die die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz beeinträchtigten: Verletzungen der Art. 6, 8 und 10 EMRK: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24... PM: hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversi...
Peter Sloterdijk wird als Schlangenölverkäufer beschimpft.
In der aktuellen Ausgabe von "Kultur & Kontroverse" geht es darum, wie öffentliche Intellektuelle ihre Kollegen beschimpfen, um Reputationsverluste zu vermeiden.
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“The unsettling impression remains that the ECJ was not even remotely aware of the significance of its decision.”
The ECJ’s Russmedia ruling quietly overturns a cornerstone of EU platform law.
ERIK TUCHTFELD (@erik.d-64.social) (@mpil.de) shows how GDPR liability may replace notice-and-takedown with de facto monitoring – potentially reshaping online speech across Europe.
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Can a voluntary user badge system promote civility in public discourse on online platforms?
💡 @thejanrau.bsky.social, Jan-Ole Harfst & @tobiasmast.bsky.social analyze various design options for such badges and discuss the opportunities and risks for debate culture and user freedoms.
#OpenAccess 👇
Auszug aus der Pressemitteilung des EGMR: Violation of judge’s right to freedom of expression on account of sanction for Facebook posts of public interest In today’s Grand Chamber judgment1 in the case of Danileţ v. Romania (application no. 16915/21) the European Court of Human Rights held, by 10 votes to 7, that there had been: a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned the freedom of expression of a judge, who had had a sanction imposed on him by the National Judicial and Legal Service Commission (Consiliul Superior al Magistraturii – CSM) for posting two messages on his publicly accessible Facebook page. The Court reiterated that, where democracy or the rule of law was under serious threat, judges were entitled to speak out on matters of public interest. Remarks made in such a context generally enjoyed a high degree of protection. It then considered that the applicant’s posts had not upset the reasonable balance between, on the one hand, the degree to which the applicant, as a judge, could be involved in society in order to defend the constitutional order and State institutions and, on the other, the need for him to be and to be seen as independent and impartial in the discharge of his duties. The first message had aimed to defend the constitutional order and preserve the independence of State institutions. The second had related to the functioning of the domestic justice system. They had thus both concerned matters of public interest about which the general public had had a legitimate interest in being informed. In the reasons given by the national authorities, there was nothing to indicate convincingly how his remarks had allegedly disrupted the proper functioning of the domestic justice system and impaired the dignity and honour of judicial office or the public confidence that such office should inspire. Examining the posts in the light of the criteria it had established with regard to the f…
EGMR, Große Kammer, Danileţ gegen Rumänien: Disziplinarstrafe gegen Richter wegen Facebook-Posts mit Kritik an Polizei, Justiz, Armee (etc.) verletzte Art. 10 EMRK, Urteil: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24... Pressemitteilung: hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversi...
Germany Report on Media, Telecommunication, and Internet Concentration 2019-2023 released
🚨 New in Nature+Science!🚨
AI chatbots can shift voter attitudes on candidates & policies, often by 10+pp
🔹Exps in US Canada Poland & UK
🔹More “facts”→more persuasion (not psych tricks)
🔹Increasing persuasiveness reduces "fact" accuracy
🔹Right-leaning bots=more inaccurate
Unser Highlight am Ende unseres Jubiläumsjahrs zum 75. Geburtstag des Instituts: 💐𝗪𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗺𝗴𝗲𝘇𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮ß𝗲 𝟯𝟬𝗯 𝘇𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻! 🏠🗝️ #HBI75
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Tagung: Ambivalenzen moderner Verwaltung. Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Bürokratie und ihre Kritik, www.uni-speyer.de/lehrstuehle/...
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
Please consider joining us at @fau.de and @humanrights-fau.bsky.social next year as postdoc researchers or coordinators as we start the work on "Transforming Human Rights" at our @dfg.de Cluster of Excellence.
#Nuremberg #FAU #HumanRights
All details here
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This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver
Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.
Wir wollten die Entwürfe für ein Bundestransparenzgesetz. Die Ironie: Bekommen haben wir sie erst, als wir auf Informationszugang klagten. Hier sind sie, mit Kommentierung aus dem BMI & einer Kostenanalyse, die zeigt: Transparenz wäre ein Schnäppchen!
Unsere Analyse:
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Öffentlicher Watschhund.
EGMR, RTL gegen Deutschland: Beschwerde gegen Untersagung der Ausstrahlung heimlich gemachter Aufnahmen in einem Zalando-Logistiklager unzulässig; Aufnahmen wären für Bericht nicht erforderlich gewesen, dt. Gerichte hatten "fair balance" hergestellt hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
CfP: Künstliche Intelligenz, menschliche Jurisprudenz (Tagung des Jungen Forums Rechtsphilosophie am 17.-18.9.2026 in Zürich).Einreichungsfrist: 30.4.2026, www.jungesforumrechtsphilosophie.com/events/2026-...
Das ist spannend und ein deutliches Zeichen: Der internationale Gerichtshof schmeißt Microsoft raus und setzt auf deutsche Open-Source-Lösung - aus Angst vor Trump!
Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.
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Der Staatsvertrag zur Reform des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks scheint am Sächsischen Landtag zu scheitern. BSW & AfD wollen dagegen stimmen (55 Nein), Linke enthalten. Minderheitsregierung CDU & SPD + Grüne kämen auf 58 Ja. Bei Sitzung morgen könnten aber mehrere MdL fehlen. Ausgang offen.
Quote from author Daphne Keller in our published article: "Scraping, in particular, is uniquely useful for investigating what platforms actually show their users - not just what they claim to show them."
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) sets important rules for research using publicly available platform data. But who benefits from its protections?
DAPHNE KELLER argues that while the DSA is an important opportunity, key questions remain unresolved:
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The European Commission said on Friday that it has preliminarily found that both companies are not complying with rules of the Digital Services Act (DSA) that mandate them to give researchers adequate access to public data.
Study on News Integrity in AI Assistants:
"errors remain at high levels"—"45% of responses contained at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single biggest cause of significant issues (31%)."
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Erste Gedanken zur BVerwG-PM in Sachen Rundfunkbeitrag