Felix Kartte

Is this what Rubio meant when he spoke about national sovereignty in Munich - a government portal to bypass the laws of other countries?

Die EU sollte jetzt aggressiv gegen X vorgehen, denn die Plattform verbreitet sogar sexualisierte Darstellungen von Kindern.

So zeigt sie: Moralisch ist nicht, was der Stärkste will, sondern was die Schwächsten schützt. /2

„Nur meine eigene Moral begrenzt meine Macht“, sagt Trump. Für ihn ist die EU das Böse, weil sie Macht begrenzt.

Niemand will, dass der Schutz von Kindern davon abhängt, wie moralisch ein Mann sich heute fühlt. /1

An influencer mocking international responses to Venezuela - 15 million views within hours. “Their hate for Trump is stronger than their love for humanity,” one user comments.

Trump didn‘t just sidestep international law, he made it look like an obstacle to freedom rather than its precondition.

When we talk about “digital sovereignty”, we usually mean economic vulnerability. But the deeper risk is political: if we don’t guard it, our dependencies can and will be used to coerce us into accepting a societal model we never chose.

The EU constrains both corporate and political power.
It also embodies qualities often coded as “female”: connection, compromise, interdependence.
That is why the strongmen truly hate Europe.

The Nazis cast Weimar institutions as “unmanly” and “weak” to prepare the ground for authoritarian rule.

The aim is always the same: to discredit any limits on power - to unchain the builder, the AI genius, the strongman who will fix everything if only we get out of his way with petty laws.

When Musk speaks of “sovereignty”, he does not mean collective self-government. He means untouchable male power.

That’s why he smears the EU as a “woke Stasi”.

It’s an old script: Putin and his autocratic fanboys have long defamed the EU as “woke”, “gay” or “effeminate”.

On the „free speech“ debate he said: „There’s no free speech when algorithms are controlled only by a few players.”

Macron cut through the false dichotomy between regulation and innovation in Berlin today.

Yes, Europe must cut red tape. But we must also accelerate enforcement of the very regulations - DMA and DSA - that were designed to protect people and businesses from Big Tech’s disproportionate power.

Voters across countries worry about the future of democracy, singling out extremism, disinformation and corruption as key threats.

www.politico.eu/article/west...

President Macron in his speech on Germany‘s reunification today:

“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”

cc all German parties left of the far right

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Das, was derzeit meinen Kollegen @dunjahayali.de und Elmar Theveßen widerfährt, dürfte z.T. auch eine orchestrierte Kampagne sein. In den digitalen Kloaken genügt es ja, jemanden zu markieren und dann wird das zum Selbstläufer, in rechtsfreien Räumen, denen sich bislang keine Kraft entgegenstellt. 🧵

We need to hear it:

The top 15 countries in the World Press Freedom Index are all European.

Universal healthcare covers almost 100% of Europeans.

Only Europe has rules to curtail Big Tech, even if enforcement isn't perfect.

Power in the EU is also female - even if equality isn't complete.

EU und UN verteidigen Internationalen Strafgerichtshof Die EU will mögliche Reaktionen auf die US-Sanktionen prüfen.

EU und UN verteidigen Internationalen Strafgerichtshof #IStGH #Sanktionen #EU

Announced by President von der Leyen, the Shield will be the EU’s new strategy to protect democracy - online and offline, from threats both outside and inside the Union. It is expected to cover key areas including support for media and civil society, strategic communication and regulatory action.

I’m honored to have been appointed Special Adviser to Michael McGrath, European Commissioner for Democracy and Justice.
In this role, I will support the development of the European Democracy Shield.

The Commission preliminarily finds TikTok’s ad repository in breach of the Digital Services Act

Such an ad repository is key to detect scams and fake ads, including during elections.

TikTok now has the right to defend itself.

The @ec.europa.eu will continue to enforce the DSA.

europa.eu/!dTmBfT

NEW: The European Parliament has piled pressure on the European Commission on the matter of Hungary's possible use of facial recognition technology to identify Pride attendees — with 62 lawmakers signing a set of questions scrutinizing it.

Exclusive, in Morning Tech: pro.politico.eu/news/197922

Commission finds Apple and Meta in breach of the Digital Markets Act Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a s...

🚨 Just in: The European Commission fines Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA):
- €500 million on Apple for failing to inform users about alternative apps outside the App Store
- €200 million on Meta for its "consent or pay" advertising model

700 Millionen Euro Strafe gegen Apple und Meta Zum ersten Mal verhängt die EU Strafen wegen Verstößen gegen das neue Gesetz über digitale Märkte.

700 Millionen Euro Strafe gegen Apple und Meta #Eilmeldung #Apple #Meta

TikTok Faces Fine Over €500 Million for EU Data Sent to China TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. is set to be hit by a privacy fine of more than €500 million ($553 million) for illegally shipping European users’ data to China, adding to the growing global backlash…

❗ Scoop: TikTok owner ByteDance is set to be hit by a privacy fine of more than €500 million for illegally shipping European users’ data to China, adding to the growing global backlash over the video-sharing app:

Jetzt müssen Konservative Wege finden, Autorität zu bieten, ohne mehr Autoritäre zu schaffen – eine Autorität, die auf Selbstbeherrschung fußt, nicht auf dem Anspruch, andere zu beherrschen. Andernfalls wird Trumps Extremismus die konservativen Kräfte in Europa auffressen.

Jetzt für alle unübersehbar: Trumps Extremismus ist keine radikale Form konservativer Politik – er ist ihr Gegenteil. Konservative stehen für Frieden und Ordnung, Extremisten missbrauchen konservative Symbole, um beides zu zerstören.

We no longer need analysts to find Russia’s lies. These lies have gone mainstream, and they’re reshaping reality. There is no right and wrong in this reality, just strong and weak. To survive it, Europe must learn to show strength.

Now, the U.S. President himself is amplifying Moscow’s core propaganda to a global audience, branding Zelensky a dictator and legitimizing the very lies Russia used to justify its invasion. Just days before the national election, this will further embolden Putin’s authoritarian Mini-Mes in Germany.

In 2016, the U.S. launched a high-stakes investigation into Russian interference. Analysts went through mountains of social media data, trying to trace the Kremlin’s invisible influence on American discourse.

Today, Kremlin trolls are out of a job—not because they failed, but because they won.