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14 Nov 2024

#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...

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#TechCoup failed here.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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fastcompany.comMeta quietly delays controversial update that critics say will allow website scrapingFollowing outrage from news publishers, the tech giant pushed back an update for business accounts by three weeks. It still plans to move forward with it.

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Silicon Valley tech uses a well-oiled policy pipeline: A) Announce an egregious practice B) Row it back and wait... C) Launch said practice later with limited rowback aka bait & switch www.fastcompany.com/91628981/met... #techpolicy #brusselsbubble #eupolitics #publishers #copyrightdirective

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#TechCoup failed here.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

fastcompany.comMeta quietly delays controversial update that critics say will allow website scrapingFollowing outrage from news publishers, the tech giant pushed back an update for business accounts by three weeks. It still plans to move forward with it.

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Silicon Valley tech uses a well-oiled policy pipeline: A) Announce an egregious practice B) Row it back and wait... C) Launch said practice later with limited rowback aka bait & switch www.fastcompany.com/91628981/met... #techpolicy #brusselsbubble #eupolitics #publishers #copyrightdirective

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Access to audiences should not mean surrendering control of journalism. #Copyright #PublishersRights #AI OPEN LETTER FROM News/Media Alliance www.newsmediaalliance.org/wp-content/u...

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linkedin.comAI’s Five-Year Problem: The Cost of Replacing the FutureA few years ago, an ambitious esports centre in Stockholm opened with more than 500 gaming PCs, a giant LED screen and plans to become Northern Europe’s biggest. Today, most of it has closed.

AI's Ticking Clock www.linkedin.com/pulse/ais-fi... #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigTech #Nvidia #DataCentres #DigitalEconomy #TechInvestment #AIBubble

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Live piracy needs a response while the event is still on. As the EU considers new copyright measures, clear takedown deadlines & enforceable duties for intermediaries should be central. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm... #EUPolicy #Piracy #FootballStream #Streaming #AudioVisua

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Access to audiences should not mean surrendering control of journalism. #Copyright #PublishersRights #AI OPEN LETTER FROM News/Media Alliance www.newsmediaalliance.org/wp-content/u...

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Hundreds Sue Meta for Copyright Infringement, Rejecting Class Action Payouts shersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101578-hundreds-sue-meta-for-copyright-infringement-rejecting-class-action-payouts.html

advanced-television.comUS Chamber shares digital piracy insights and priorities | Advanced Television

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The US Chamber of Commerce is urging Congress to update anti-piracy enforcement, citing links to malware, fraud and organised crime. www.advanced-television.com/2026/10/21/u... #Copyright #Piracy #Cybersecurity

bbc.comMeta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacyThe fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner, larger than an $18bn deal with California.

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They don't fear fines - no matter the amount! They fear competition. bbc.com/news/articles/cqdr8zxrr3dxo

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politico.comAnthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakersThe draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI safety laws.

Regulatory creation and capture – so who regulates whom here as Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

transformernews.aiAnthropic’s weak AI bill undermines its ‘safety first’ approachThe leaked draft bill is weaker than the FRONTIER Act and makes Anthropic’s safety-first pitch ring hollow

Anthropic’s proposed US AI legislation has drawn criticism from safety advocates, who say it offers weaker safeguards than the bipartisan FRONTIER Act. www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-... #AI #TechRegulation

ijpr.orgTikTok staff raised child safety alarms. Court records show executives failed to actThe warnings surfaced in a trove of unreported court records. "I have been fighting about fixing this for months with people who didn't think the harms are severe enough," wrote one executive.

TikTok staff raised concerns about child sexual exploitation and other risks, according to depositions reviewed by NPR. The testimony raises questions about executives’ response. www.ijpr.org/npr-news/202... #TikTok #OnlineSafety

linkedin.comAI’s Five-Year Problem: The Cost of Replacing the FutureA few years ago, an ambitious esports centre in Stockholm opened with more than 500 gaming PCs, a giant LED screen and plans to become Northern Europe’s biggest. Today, most of it has closed.

AI's Ticking Clock www.linkedin.com/pulse/ais-fi... #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigTech #Nvidia #DataCentres #DigitalEconomy #TechInvestment #AIBubble

uk.finance.yahoo.comEuropean stocks fall on unrest in France as Nasdaq bouncesParis and Milan equities led a retreat across European stock markets Monday as escalating violence across France and street clashes in Italy's financial capital fueled concerns over elevated debt.In I...

Be it your content or the stolen goods, platforms act only under duress. "France's digital minister on Monday urged online resale platforms to remove listings for looted items. " uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/asian-s... #ebay #vinted #paris

wsj.comAI Runs Into Its Next Big Obstacle: InsuranceSafety incidents risk exposing AI developers to multibillion-dollar liabilities, with other businesses vulnerable for using the tech.

The artificial-intelligence industry's phenomenal rate of growth means claims have the potential to outpace the limits on existing coverage www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-r...

politico.comAnthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakersThe draft proposal would limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model and preempt some state AI safety laws.

Regulatory creation and capture – so who regulates whom here as Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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netopia.euAI’s Ticking Clock - NetopiaOnce upon a time there was an esports centre in Stockholm. It wanted to be Northern Europe’s biggest. It had big investors and great plans. The biggest LED-screen ever seen in those parts was installe...

#NewPost AI is moving fast. Rules, accountability and safeguards are still catching up. The clock is ticking: decisions made now will shape who benefits from AI—and who bears the cost. Read more: www.netopia.eu/ais-ticking-... #AI #AIGovernance #DigitalRights #NewPost #blog

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theverge.comMeta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sitesLanguage that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

Meta continues to sail very close to breaching TDM exceptions and article 15 of the EU Copyright Directive. www.theverge.com/tech/1013409... #eu #digitalpolicy #publishing

theverge.comMeta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sitesLanguage that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

Meta continues to sail very close to breaching TDM exceptions and article 15 of the EU Copyright Directive. www.theverge.com/tech/1013409... #eu #digitalpolicy #publishing

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niemanlab.orgGoogle’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outletsIn December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the pr...

Does this comply with #article15 of the #copyrightdirective ? www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/goog...

netopia.euWeblining – Why eating at Nando's could cost you your mortgage - NetopiaWeblining, sometimes called Redlining is a potentially discriminatory practice of offering preferential products and services on account of a person’s standing or behaviour on the internet. Nandos Ch...

Some time ago we wrote "weblining". The Walmart story is the continuum. www.netopia.eu/weblining-wh...

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Walmart says it prices products, not people. But one of its patents describes technology that could raise the price of mayonnaise after you put tuna in your cart — because its system predicts you’re making tuna salad.

niemanlab.orgGoogle’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outletsIn December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the pr...

Does this comply with #article15 of the #copyrightdirective ? www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/goog...

netopia.euAI’s Ticking Clock - NetopiaOnce upon a time there was an esports centre in Stockholm. It wanted to be Northern Europe’s biggest. It had big investors and great plans. The biggest LED-screen ever seen in those parts was installe...

#NewPost AI is moving fast. Rules, accountability and safeguards are still catching up. The clock is ticking: decisions made now will shape who benefits from AI—and who bears the cost. Read more: www.netopia.eu/ais-ticking-... #AI #AIGovernance #DigitalRights #NewPost #blog

the-platform-law.comSomething for nothing: user damages and abuse of dominance in digital markets - The Platform Law BlogThe dominant digital services that structure much of our daily lives do not charge consumers for access. Search engines, social networks, maps, email: all are offered for nothing … yet they are anythi...

“Free” platforms may still owe users for the data they take. The Court of Appeal says FB users’ claim for compensation over Meta’s alleged use of their data can be argued at trial. Meta take your privacy; seriously! #CompetitionLaw #DataRights #DigitalMarkets the-platform-law.com/2026/10/13/s...

nytimes.comWhat’s Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The ‘Verification Tax.’ (Gift Article)As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.

AI promised a productivity revolution. So far, it’s often added a human “verification tax.” The hype is ahead of the gains. #AI #Productivity #FutureOfWorksurveys #IntellectualProperty www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...

reuters.comGetty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go privateGetty Images said on Monday it would file for bankruptcy and go private after a restructuring agreement that the visual-content provider expects to close by the ‌end of the year.

Getty under threat of bankruptcy in face of AI competition (aka theft/legal exceptionalism). www.reuters.com/business/get...

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Your Attention Please, a new film about how social media is built to be addictive, and the people pushing back, is available now on Apple TV, Amazon, and Doc+.

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copyrightalliance.orgFair Use Analysis in ‘Thomson Reuters’ Should Have Generative AI Defendants Worried | Copyright AllianceOn September 29, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its decision in Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, affirming the district court's summary judgment order in favor of Thomson Reute...

“The court held that by copying the works ‘for use as training data without…authorization,’ the defendant ‘usurped [the copyright owner’s] opportunity to enter that derivative market & license its [works] for that purpose,’ & that this ‘market harm…weighs against fair use.’” Common sense prevails!

euronews.comEU Parliament votes for ‘permanent’ fix for AI copyrightThe report calls for a European register to list every copyrighted work used to train AI models and whether the artists have opted out.

“The European Parliament adopted series of recommendations urging lawmakers to find a “permanent” solution to protect copyright from use by artificial intelligence (AI).” www.euronews.com/2026/03/10/e...

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Netopia is on LinkedIn, and we'd love to connect with you there, find us here www.linkedin.com/company/neto...

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Why Are AI Companies Hiring Philosophers? What happens to philosophy when it is bought by Big Tech? www.linkedin.com/article/edit... #AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalPolicy #TechGovernance #Philosophy #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #CivilRights #Surveillance #DigitalSociety

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bloomberg.comFor Billionaires, AI Wealth Is Different This TimeAI brings a staggering new peak in wealth – and signs we just passed it.

Describe a Ponzi scheme, which is also a bubble? "Billionaires Index: tech billionaires account for all of the $845B in wealth gains so far in 2026; those whose fortunes came from outside tech lost $62B total." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

news.bloomberglaw.comByteDance Fails to Escape YouTubers’ AI Training, Copyright SuitByteDance Inc. failed to convince a federal judge in California to dismiss a copyright lawsuit from a group of YouTubers accusing the TikTok parent company of scraping millions of videos to train its ...

ByteDance Fails to Escape YouTubers' AI Training, Copyright Suit news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/byted...

bloomberg.comFor Billionaires, AI Wealth Is Different This TimeAI brings a staggering new peak in wealth – and signs we just passed it.

Describe a Ponzi scheme, which is also a bubble? "Billionaires Index: tech billionaires account for all of the $845B in wealth gains so far in 2026; those whose fortunes came from outside tech lost $62B total." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

reuters.comMeta, TikTok, X challenge UK watchdog over online safety data demandsMeta , TikTok and X are challenging British regulator Ofcom over the amount of information it is demanding they provide under Britain's nascent online safety regime.

Each of these companies can track you to within an inch of your life but cannot meet regulatory requirements? Why? www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

openai.comOur approach to EU text provenance rulesHow OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

OpenAI to add some watermarking by way of self-regulation in the EU to comply with #AIAct Pro-tip: Marking one's own homework is never a good idea and has failed multiple times, entrenching the infringement of IP openai.com/index/eu-tex...

politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI politi.co/4rJE8dISam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI politi.co/4rJE8dI

What are we talking? We already have #SuicideSites #Radicalisation #BeheadingVideos #Exploitation #Cyberbullying #HateSpeech #Fraud #Disinformation #Surveillance #Deepfakes #Sextortion #Stalking #SelfHarm #Addiction #Gambling #DangerousChallenges #Cybercrime #Ransomware #Piracy

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI politi.co/4rJE8dI

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Replying to @scalzi.com

Indeed. The richest men in the world who believe they can effectively reconstitute the human brain and create a digital heaven on earth somehow can’t develop systems to negotiate the terms of consent with the creators without whom there would be no GenAI. I guess everyone has their limits! 🤬

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Internet Policy Review

@policyr.bsky.social

[New paper] Superhighway to serfdom: The political economy of the #metaverse, a paper by Tom Mamer & Annette Freyberg-Inan as part of the special issue 'Governing the metaverse through the lens of the public sphere' policyreview.info/articles/ana...

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Why Are AI Companies Hiring Philosophers? What happens to philosophy when it is bought by Big Tech? www.linkedin.com/article/edit... #AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalPolicy #TechGovernance #Philosophy #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #CivilRights #Surveillance #DigitalSociety

From David Robinson, later of OpenAI who resigned in protest at the flaws in the product and overriding culture, this was published in the Atlantic. ht Andrew Curran.

@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social

The Big Shed Economy - perfect description.

Liz McFall@allartmarkets.bsky.social

What if I was to call it ‘The Big Shed Economy: the history of hyperscale finance’ eh? On account of the fact that the long history of insurance financing retail market encounters is (probably) germane to what’s happening now in AI financification.

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Banned Books Week

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

Of note for all creators and intellectual property owners.

Mickai@mickai.bsky.social

The Digital Omnibus provisional agreement moves the EU AI Act high-risk deadlines from August 2026 to December 2027. Most coverage frames the delay as relief. We frame it as the window to own… https://mickai.co.uk/articles/digital-omnibus-high-risk-deferral-what-regulated-teams-should-build-now

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