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Ben Crum
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Political Scientist @vuamsterdam.bsky.social
Democracy, European Union politics, Social justice, Digital governance, Political theory
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I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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International law is not about rewarding virtue or punishing vice.
It exists to restrain power and protect the weak from the strong.
When force replaces rules, sovereignty and legitimacy erode.
2/2
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
into acquiescence by releasing recovery funds

On the other hand, to have fundamental decisions hinge on enhanced cooperation is a dangerous path for the EU to travel.
It will be unsustainable once Meloni sides with Orbán or Le Pen would come to power in France
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Interesting find. Obviously, it is difficult for EP party groups to prevent other parties from voting with them
Striking thing is that my colleague Adam Tyler and I identified a similar 'Luddite coalition' against tech-run content filtering in the DSA
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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To me this is a depressing theme in modern academia.

There is so much work being produced, and so many competing demands on our time, that people rarely seem able to just closely read work and frankly say "yes, I believe this" or "no, I don't."

If we aren't doing this, what _are_ we doing?!
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM