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"However, there is one country that always, always brings home the gold in the Regulatory Capture Olympics: Ireland."
by @pluralistic:
Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (1 Dec 2025)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/
#MastoDaoine #GDPR #DataProtection #RegulatoryCapture #Ireland
"However, there is one country that always, always brings home the gold in the Regulatory Capture Olympics: Ireland."
by @pluralistic:
Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (1 Dec 2025)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/erin-go-blagged/
#MastoDaoine #GDPR #DataProtection #RegulatoryCapture #Ireland
"Wikibooks receives nearly half a billion page views annually, but has hardly featured in academic debates on open access. Caroline Ball argues that by working with the platform to create open educational resources academics have much to gain."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/10/22/does-academia-need-a-wakeup-call-on-wikibooks/
Yes!
Incentivize #opensource as the bulwark against #censorship that it is!
Incentivize trickle-UP education and economic knock-on effects over #regulatorycapture by #billionaires
6 years later, this seems prescient;
"When all discussion takes place under the eye of software, in a for-profit medium working to shape the participants’ behavior, it may not be possible to create the consensus and shared sense of reality that is a prerequisite for self-government. If that is true, then the move away from ambient privacy will be an irreversible change, because it will remove our ability to function as a democracy."
#MaciejCegłowski, 2019
"That is not the conversation Facebook or Google want us to have. Their totalizing vision is of a world with no ambient privacy and strong data protections, dominated by the few companies that can manage to hoard information at a planetary scale. They correctly see the new round of privacy laws as a weapon to deploy against smaller rivals, further consolidating their control over the algorithmic panopticon."
#MaciejCegłowski, 2019
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