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Doctoral candidate researcher in law @ University of Turku. Regulation and governance; copyright, legitimacy, participatory internet culture and video games, among others.

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Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA.

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

link.europa.eu/bcmC87

05.12.2025 15:41 👍 879 🔁 254 💬 67 📌 96

Vertaisarvioija laittoi kässäriin useita kommentteja tyyliin "ChatGPT sanoi tästä että..." 🤦‍♂️

15.09.2025 12:24 👍 146 🔁 8 💬 11 📌 6

For more than a decade, companies dependant on data hoarding as a business model have reminded us that there is nothing we can do to stop the practice and we cannot have presumptions of privacy. It should not be news that most of us took this for granted.

27.03.2025 05:17 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

DC Circuit affirms that only humans, not AI, can create copyrightable works. [Well, corporations can too, but never mind that]

media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

18.03.2025 17:05 👍 67 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Olen sitä mieltä, että EU saisi purkaa koko tietoyhteiskuntadirektiivin yksityistä kopiointia koskevan hyvitysjärjestelmän tarpeettomana, tehottomana ja raskaana. Varmasti löytyy tehokkaampia keinoja tukea eurooppalaista kulttuuria ja luovia aloja.

25.02.2025 18:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ja näköjään myös pohditaan pelikonsolien sisällyttämistä hyvitysjärjestelmän piiriin (s. 104-105). Melkoista maksimalisointia olisi, kun pohtii näiden laitteiden pääasiallista käyttötarkoitusta, niissä käytettävien teknisten suojakeinojen määrää ja muita käytännön rajoitteita kopioinnille...

25.02.2025 18:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What US and Russia are doing in respect of Ukraine is in clear breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which is a legally binding treaty concerning security assurances to Ukraine that gave up its nuclear weapons. As a party to the treaty, UK has special responsibility treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

23.02.2025 09:11 👍 116 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 3

Miksi koulutus paskeentuu? Suomalaistenkin hellimä tasa-arvoinen koulupolku on pahasti rapautumassa ja syy siihen on, tadaa... uusliberalismi ja siihen läheisesti kytkeytyvä managerialismi. Voitaisko sanoa tää ääneen ja sitten muuttaa asioita paremmiksi? Kiitos! 💝

20.02.2025 10:42 👍 68 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Kyynikon ajatuksia: Tämä vipuvarsi voisi valitettavasti toimia toiseenkin suuntaan. "Tavalla tai toisella" voisi tarkoittaa Trumpin osalta sitä, että tämä olisi valmis käymään mineraaleista kauppaa myös Venäjän kanssa - ml. tämän Ukrainalta miehittämiltä alueilta.

14.02.2025 08:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.

This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

12.02.2025 00:31 👍 506 🔁 102 💬 27 📌 9
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German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.

"The court decision marks one of the first major judicial tests of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), raising fresh questions about X’s compliance with European regulations ahead of Germany’s federal election."
#NaziMusk

09.02.2025 20:05 👍 101 🔁 42 💬 1 📌 2
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The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

05.02.2025 17:57 👍 1807 🔁 846 💬 76 📌 88
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Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

01.02.2025 00:06 👍 2510 🔁 941 💬 83 📌 80
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Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law Proposed US law slammed as “censorious” and an “Internet kill switch.”…

The bill has been criticized by one consumer advocate group as a "censorious site-blocking" measure "that turns broadband providers into copyright police at Americans' expense."

30.01.2025 17:49 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
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Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …

Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

30.01.2025 01:10 👍 2590 🔁 623 💬 39 📌 30
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Opinion | In Trump’s Economy, Trump Gets to Pick the Winners and Losers Call it command capitalism.

Tiktok and Trump's approach to economic management

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/o...

29.01.2025 15:24 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 3

Looking at the new levels of instanity, no wonder people are coming up with exit strategies. At this rate, Trump and his cronies must start building exit walls to keep people in.

29.01.2025 17:46 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…

Bluesky ja Mastodon ovat nähdäkseni parhaimmat kehittyvät vaihtoehdot hajautetun ja avoimen toteutuksensa ansiosta. Pitäisi merkittävästi jarruttaa Twitterin kaltaista taantumaa yhden miljardöörin 4chaniksi. Mike Masnick mielestäni perustelee tämän ansiokkaasti:

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...

27.01.2025 08:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released - Kluwer Copyright Blog The European AI Office is currently facilitating the drawing-up of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the “Code”). The European Commission published the first draft of the Code on 14 November 20...

First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released, by Marianna Foerg on the Kluwer Copyright Blog

copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/16/f...

17.12.2024 10:19 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Varmaankin tämä?

docs.bsky.app/docs/tutoria...

27.11.2024 09:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0