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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this discussion!
Join us tomorrow from 12:30 to 13:30

Link in the thread below 🔗

Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 8d

Next week I will be moderating a session of our Lunch & Learn series!

This session, in English, will focus on the inner workings of an out-of-court dispute (ODS) settlement body.

With Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre, one of the certified ODS body pursuant to art. 21 DSA, we will discuss 1/

Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 7d

I have never used it because I thrive in chaos! Whenever I organise something, I immediately forget I have done it and usually start over looking for stuff. The amazing thing is that I keep looking for the same stuff and I’m often redirected to an open tab 🫠

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 7d

a man in a suit and tie is saying mmm ok .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying mmm ok .

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 7d

I also have a printed copy with a ton of post-its on it but I’ve not reached the point where I carry it everywhere ahaha (and I don’t want to reach that point)

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 7d

It’s permanently open in my browser but I keep losing it given the number of tabs currently open… I might have to do the same ahaha

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 8d

No registration required - just click on the 🔗 in the post above and join the discussion next Tuesday from 12:30 to 13:30

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 8d

to what extent these mechanisms truly empower users to challenge platforms’ content decisions and how decisions taken by these bodies contribute to the enforcement and effectiveness of the DSA.

More info: regulation-tech.cnam.fr/lunch-learn-5/

Lunch & Learn #5

The inner workings of an out-of-court dispute settlement body: a conversation with Thomas Hughes Tuesday 7th October, 12:30-13:30 Curtailing illegal and harmful speech online is a major challenge. Regulatory approaches at the regional and national level seek to prevent “torrents of hate coming over the Internet”, as French

regulation-tech.cnam.fr

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 8d

Next week I will be moderating a session of our Lunch & Learn series!

This session, in English, will focus on the inner workings of an out-of-court dispute (ODS) settlement body.

With Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre, one of the certified ODS body pursuant to art. 21 DSA, we will discuss 1/

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 10d

In my review, I focus on how tech companies fit within the horizontal conflicts Bradford describes in her book.I argue that the shifts in companies’ alliances w/digital empires show how companies leverage horizontal battles b/w regulatory models to benefit their vertical battles vs. digital empires

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 10d

📖 My review of Anu Bradford’s "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford University Press 2023) is out on @zaoerv.bsky.social

Many thanks to @alexanderwentker.bsky.social and @erik.d-64.social for editing this timely book review symposium.

🔗 doi.org/10.17104/004...

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20d

Many thanks to FRANCE 24 for having me, and to Suzanne Vergnolle for helping me prep for this! 5/5

Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20d

the same administration that is strenuously presenting itself as the protector of free speech is also putting in place tactics that directly violate the First Amendment precisely to suppress political opposition. 4/

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20d

I also illustrated how this suspension is a perfect example of jawboning and a violation of the First Amendment. Ultimately, the suspension is yet another demonstration of the weaponisation of the concept of free speech: 3/

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20d

In my intervention, I discussed the wider strategies currently employed in the US to stifle political opposition, underscoring how the recent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel is just the latest escalation of silencing efforts that had already started at the beginning of this second Trump administration 2/

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20d

This morning I made my first TV appearance and exercised my right to publicly criticise the most prominent politicians and leaders.

The topic: a discussion on how this very same right is currently being suppressed in the US. 1/

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 22d

Je suis la première? 😎

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 22d

🔥🔥🔥

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 23d

Still waiting for the day this guy says something remotely intelligent…

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 24d

“Every age has its own Fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own will. There are many ways of reaching this point…”
Primo Levi, writing in 1974

institutions and hospitals where all too frequently, as in Auschwitz, man loses his name and his face, his dignity and hope.
The very brutality of our experience in the camps turned us into accusers rather than judges, but it both disgusts us and gives us much to think about when we see the seeds of Fascism taking hold in those same countries (not their peoples) who are owed the world's gratitude for the defeat of Nazifascism. In the Soviet Union, there are still work camps from which people emerge humiliated and broken. Indiscriminate bombing has returned in Vietnam. Torture is practised in all the countries of South America where useful governments are propped up by the United States.
Every age has its own Fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own will. There are many ways of reaching this point,

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24d

Javier Bardem shouts out @drmelob.bsky.social on the red carpet

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 24d

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"

(via @Variety)

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 24d

The letter in question, in particular, requested (1) a change in our workshop title, (2) the cancellation of the keynote by Francesca Albanese, and (3) the careful examination of the remaining papers for antisemitic claims (i.e. prior censorship)

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 24d

In this thread by @ralfmichaels.bsky.social, a summary of (some) of the silencing attempts we have faced while organising our IG workshop and his excellent defence of our event, for which I’m extremely grateful.

Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · Sep 9

Die Polemik, die die drei Vorstandsmitglieder des Netzwerks Jüdischer Hochschullehrender (NJH) gegen eine Veranstaltung der @esil-sedi.bsky.social aufgesetzt haben, empfinde ich in mehrerlei Hinsicht als unsachlich und für Hochschullehrende inadäquat. 1/15 n-j-h.de/workshop-car...

Workshop „Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide“ - Netzwerk Jüdischer Hochschullehrender

Freie Universität BerlinKaiserswerther Str. 16-1814195 Berlin Frankfurt, 07.09.2025 Workshop „Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide“ mit UN-Sonderberichterstatterin für die besetzten palästinensischen G...

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 24d

Dear Ralf, I only come across this now. Thank you so much for your words, and for explaining so eloquently the aims and objectives of our event. Indeed, the censorship attempts are absolutely shameful and an assault on the idea of the university as a space for critical inquiry and dialogue.

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks to you for joining us!

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 25d

As we all go back to our everyday lives, I hope we will continue to work together and mobilise to defend academic freedom in regard to Palestine. 5/.

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