Competition law and privacy finally meet:
Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/germany-facebook-data.html
Competition law and privacy finally meet:
Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/germany-facebook-data.html
Online harms in the UK: the government is rattling ahead towards regulation of UK social media, and prefers a 'duty of care'. Whether this is provides balance, or undermines free speech, largely rests on the notion of risk it takes up.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2019/duty-of-care:-an-empty-concept
@dpwright I need to get back to LLPSI. I've been doing memrise stuff meantime.
Seen elsewhere.
@bgcarlisle I may have missed your point but I was trying to understand it. My apologies.
@bgcarlisle I think that many Nazis do hide behind this kind of pseudo-justification; but real free speech advocates also exist.
Article19.org for instance is clearly a free speech advocacy organisation.
Without free speech advocates, rights advocates of all kinds would have struggled historically; advocating and promoting minority views were frequently subject to laws banning and suppressing such points of view, on the basis of public morality, obscenity etc.
This still seems a very creative and interesting space. I really should spend more time here.
@bgcarlisle Gosh I do hope that free speech advocates do not come across with that lack of subtlety. If they (we) then free speech really is doomed.
Finished my first read-through of Lingua Latina per se Illustrata (Pars I)! What an amazing experience! The difficulty ramps up over the last few chapters, which I plan to re-read, but overall I’m extremely impressed by the pacing and the amount covered. And how plain fun it is!
- An insider’s view: ‘Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are a waste of time’ https://newint.org/features/2019/02/07/insiders-view-israeli-palestinian-negotiations-are-waste-time
More (and better) news out of Strasbourg this morning. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass #surveillance programmes have breached the European Convention on Human Rights. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules
@Hamishcampbell Seems all is open and OK :) Will be interesting to see how it goes with one!
Have we banned switter on this platform @Hamishcampbell ?
Welcome @mylesjackman
Good news if you missed it! The EU voted against the Copyright Directive 318-278 earlier today, which now has to be redrafted before being voted on again this September https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/5/17535874/eu-copyright-law-article-11-13-rejected-first-vote #Article11 #Article13
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