You'd think they would do it due to risk of repercussions from the central bank on Austria, rather than overseas. Makes them look amateur. Subservient to Russia and usa, with a lack of morals.
In most of the world 15 April goes unnoticed. But in China, 15 April is Chinese National Security Education Day.
To mark the occasion, China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) posted a half-hour video on their official WeChat channel titled "Innovation Leads · Forging the Sword of National Security". WeChat is China’s dominant social media app. Chinese and foreign media also covered the program’s release.
That's what you get for the entire political spectrum shitting on the interests of young people, while also normalising xenophobic bullshit by parroting those xenophobic traitors' rhetoric to fish for votes.
If you're young & worried about the future, then rooting for climate change denying morons is not the best course of action either. Especially when they literally admitted that "the worse Germany is doing, the better for the AfD". I'm sure the AfD would love a few million climate refugees and a destabilized society.
Of course it's not a good idea. I'd even say it's fucking stupid. The only ones who would possibly benefit from those morons getting into power are a few very rich old people. The problem is that the entire political system has been very busy in the last few decades to manufacture a social climate in which those Nazi morons can thrive.
When will the EU finally realise that Russia and China is waging an information war against us? Yet we let their billionaires buy up our real estate, our companies deal with them, and we allow their products into our markets.
"These specific obligations include submitting risk assessment reports to the Commission, putting in place mitigation measures to address systemic risks linked to the provision of their services," it said in a statement.
I feel like systemic risks from lack of pornography from said platforms until a replacement can show up are rather limited.
I can legitimately say that I visited a porn site for research! Nothing sciency, though, just a project that regularly calculates which country has the most porn actresses per capita.
Is it? In the end, it’s about trying to get them to take responsibility for the content they host and the services they provide. Just like the DMA does for all other providers.
I would also like to see Belgium take action against its own political parties who allow Cloudflare to block some demographics of voters from seeing election info. These political parties are running exclusive websites:
PS/Vooruit (Socialist / Parti Socialiste [fr/nl])
Défi (previously part of the MR, now more at the center [fr])
CD & V (center / Christen Democratisch en Vlaams [nl])
Cloudflare is not transparent about who they block. They essentially (and falsely) say they only block baddies, in so many words. A list of groups found to be marginalized can be found here:
A consequence of the non-transparency is that the list is inherently incomplete. Certainly if you use Ungoogled Chromium to reach the websites of those parties over the Tor network, you will be blocked hard and fast (not even a CAPTCHA offer).
Those sites do need ddos protection, so it's no surprise that they use a very popular one. Not everyone is a tech wizard of the highest order, so I really can't fault their web masters for using what's easy and convenient.
Someone who uses degoogled chromium over tor is also more than tech savvy enough to know what to do if they want to check out a website behind cloudflare. These "demographics" are not being excluded, ATM they're just being inconvenienced.
I do agree that we need better browsing neutrality, I just don't think haranguing individual websites is the way to go about it.
These “demographics” are not being excluded, ATM they’re just being inconvenienced.
Have another look at that list. People using public libraries are not necessarily tech savvy; more likely the contrary. People whose ISP chose to implement CGNAT don’t necessarily even have any idea that they are sharing a WAN IP address. AOS ≤6 users are likely clueless; they will just blame their phone and buy another.
I’m not sure it’s fair to say all Tor users are hackers considering Tails is simply a matter of booting with a USB stick inserted. Many VPN users are avg Joes just trying to reach BBC or torrents. VPN services have had to lower the bar to be usable by low tech folks.
Not everyone is a tech wizard of the highest order, so I really can’t fault their web masters for using what’s easy and convenient.
I agree it’s much more likely a case of ignorance than malice. But nonetheless they have a professional duty to become informed about the consequences of their choices. Using CF is a proactive move¹. They are responsible for excluding people and should be held accountable until they get it right.
¹ OTOH, 4 of those parties have apparently outsourced to “Nationbuilder”, whereas Défi apparently did their own CF deployment. Whoever is behind Nationbuilder owns their incompetence. It’s reasonable to expect an outsourced contractor to know what they’re doing. The political parties should choose a different contractor who can do the job without excluding people.
update
Digital exclusion is a big problem in Belgium. Current politicians are dismantling analog infra and forcing people online for government transactions. And those gov resources are often broken and/or exclusive. People are often forced to disclose more info than necessary (in violation of the GDPR minimisation principle). So it is actually becoming quite important to elect people who oppose digital exclusion.
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