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Torben Klausa
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Digital Politics, Public Sphere & Platform Regulation.
Pushing policy @ https://agoradigital.de.
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Pünktlich zum #39C3 präsentiert der Hutladen um die Ecke die neue Kollektion von @anke.domscheit-berg.de
Schaufenster eines Hutladens voll roter Hüte.
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Die USA gehen nun offiziell gegen Menschen vor, die sich in Europa für Meinungsfreiheit, für rechtsstaatliche Regulierung wie den #DSA und gegen Hass und Hetze online einsetzen: Einreiseverbot für Josephine Ballon und Anna-Lena Hodenberg von @hateaid.org sowie @thierrybreton.bsky.social:
WE'VE SANCTIONED: Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, the leader and founder of HateAid, a German organization founded after the 2017 German federal elections to counter conservative groups. HateAid is an official “trusted flagger” (a censor) under the EU’s anti-speech Digital Services Act (DSA) and routinely demands access to propriety social media platform data to help it censor more. Hodenberg cited threat of “disinformation” from “right-wing extremists” online in upcoming U.S. and EU elections when circulating a petition for the DSA to become more strongly enforced to allow data access for “researchers". Dec 23, 2025 · 8:48 PM UTC Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD 57m WE’VE SANCTIONED: Josephine Ballon, co-leader of HateAid, who flags disfavored speech throughout Europe under the Digital Services Act. In addition to her running an official “trusted flagger” body under the DSA, she serves on Germany’s Advisory Council of the Digital Services Coordinator (DSC), which directly advises Germany’s DSC on the application and enforcement of the DSA. In February 2025, Ballon spoke before an American audience in a notable 60 Minutes interview, outlining her position on censorship succinctly: “Free speech needs boundaries.” In October 2024, she vowed to stop the “emotionalization of debates” by “regulating platforms
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I'd love to read it, but the link doesn't work.
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Meme of Elon Musk shooting a person representing Democratic online discourse and asking "why would the EU do this?"
December 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Lange Zeit war Medien- und Plattform-Recht reine Schönwetterregulierung. Diese Tage sind leider vorbei. Man kann nur hoffen, dass diese Erkenntnis den Aufsichtsbehörden bei aller Überraschung ein starkes Rückgrat wachsen lässt.
(h/t @netzpolitik.bsky.social)
December 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"Thank you for s̶̶m̶̶o̶̶k̶̶i̶̶n̶̶g̶ posting" - Meta uses good old tobacco industry tactics to bury casual evidence on social media harm 🤷

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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At the EU Summit on Digital Sovereignty, the US internet service Cloudflare is sponsoring today's side event "Digital Resilience: Between Aspiration and Reality." /s
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Grüße gehen raus.
meme of a man waking up, subtitled: "me when my 4 years old son enters my bedroom on Sunday 6am to ask me whether I know his third-favorite dinosaur"
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Übrigens: Mit Blick auf "böse" Inhalte sind die Vorschläge da deutlich systemischer. Da ist sogar von "inhalteagnostisch" die Rede.
Auszug der Eckpunkt-Anhänge zum "Schutz Kommunikativer Räume"
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Die Probleme beginnen allerdings, wenn Aufsichtsbehörden anfangen, "verlässliche" Inhalte vorzugeben:

Einerseits bewegen wir uns mit der Definition "verlässlicher" Inhalte auf ziemlich dünnem Eis. Wo findet man die? Überall dort, wo sich jemand "journalistischen Standards" verpflichtet? Uff...
Auszug der Eckpunkt-Anhänge zu "Auffindbarkeit von Einzelinhalten"
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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It seems like an unfamiliar setting for a crash course on #ATProto, open protocols and alternatives to big tech - still: @seabass.bsky.social doing a great job in front of a bunch of German media and policy executives. (h/t to @rlp.de for hosting this lightning talk @ #ConCon meets Berlin.)
September 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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How it feels coming from "let's regulate Big Tech" into the "let's build better alternatives" community.
(This often works both ways, though.)
Monty Python meme, referring to the conflict between the Judean People's Front vs People's Front of Judea: - So, are you on Bluesky? - F*ck off! Bluesky? We're on Mastodon
September 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM