2026-02-09 22:15:08
Interesting to compare this to government dismay when Meta shut down CrowdTangle; apparently government hates being held to account by third parties:
Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive […said]: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts. “HMCTS’s own data proves they can’t do it — their records were accurate 4.2 per cent of the time, 1.6 million cases were heard without any advance notice to the press.
… An HMCTS spokesman said that the press always had and would retain full access to information from the courts to ensure accurate reporting.
2026-02-09 18:15:49
It’s worth clicking through to see all of the outrage and wonder how many of these people have not been paying attention to what’s being done in the name of “child safety”, let alone finding lost dogs:
2026-02-07 16:46:30
“it’s okay, she should be outside playing sports” — no?
“I have autism and mental health things, it’s hard making friends in real life for me,” she says. “My online friends were easier because I can communicate in my own time and think about what I want to say. My social media was my main way of socialising and without it I feel like I’ve lost my friends.”
2026-02-06 22:11:45
“what could possibly go wrong”?
Presumably part of the point of this is also to get media outlets to sign up for regulatory oversight.
Commission issues guidelines to protect media content on online platforms | Shaping Europe’s digital future
Article 18 (1) of the European Media Freedom Act introduces concrete safeguards to protect media content online produced according to professional standards from unjustified removal. These safeguards require VLOPs to notify media providers in advance when they intend to remove journalistic content and clearly explain the reasons for their decision. Media providers are also given 24 hours to respond before the removal takes effect. To benefit from these safeguards, media service providers need to declare that they fulfil certain elements, such as being editorially independent and subject to regulatory oversight, through a functionality put in place by VLOPs.
2026-02-06 12:08:47
“Oh dear.”
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2026-02-05 16:48:44
If foreign intelligence controlled events, the mass killings across hundreds of cities would be impossible to explain. If such networks were real, a security state that tracks teachers and workers with such meticulous attention to detail would have arrested at least one of these supposed agents in advance. The story collapses under the slightest pressure, but it survives because it is useful. Once protesters are renamed “foreign agents,” their deaths stop raising questions. Violence becomes logical. Memory becomes dangerous.