@sandrabarthel.bsky.social
Political & Media Scientist | #Policy & #Advocacy in the field of #digitalrights #media #democracy| Host netzpolitischer Abend #Österreich | #openprotcols #interoperability #civilsociety #digitalcommons #IFG European by heart #Vienna & #Berlin
🛡️ Reporting from exile means confronting digital threats, surveillance, and censorship across borders.
Yesterday, our EU Advocacy Officer Ena Bavčić participated in a workshop on innovation, resilience, and safety for exiled journalists and activists at #PrivacyCamp25.
This is really the crux of it. Bluesky isn't censorship resistant when there's a single point of failure concentrated in the United States.
We need Eurosky like yesterday.
New on #DeregulationWatch:
Is EU Commission President Von der Leyen getting worried about MEPs and governments not buying into her #deregulation agenda?
In a speech last week VDL called upon industry lobby groups to get their "influence to the table" 🤔
➡️ www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
On 22 October 2025, OpenForum Europe will host a roundtable about the European Standardisation System from 16:30 to 18:30 at Maison de la Poste in Brussels.
Register now: openforumeurope.org/event/solvin...
‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism
on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism
connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...
If you're uncomfortable with Bluesky owning (and being able to delete) your data but don't want to go the whole way to self-hosted/another service, you should:
1) Register identity recovery keys, which will allow you to point your current identity to a new PDS
2) Backup your PDS periodically
🚨 A former Meta lobbyist will join the DPC as a commissioner in October.
With this appointment, the Irish government does not even pretend to care about enforcing EU law anymore.
Read our full statement on the matter here:
noyb.eu/en/former-me...
Mit 1. September hat die Datenschutzbehörde neue Aufgaben im Rahmen des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes bekommen, nun muss sie aufgrund Personalmangels ihre Tätigkeiten einschränken.
www.derstandard.at/s...
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Read OFE’s new report: Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure. The report urges the EU to launch a Sovereign Tech Fund to support the open source tech powering Europe’s digital future.
Read the report: eu-stf.openforumeurope.org
Watch the intervention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCC...
Hintergrund: schwarze Skyline von Berlin mit hell zu dunkelblauem Himmel. Das leicht abgewandelte Fediverse Pentagramm im Pentagon mit farbigen Eckpunkten und Verlauf mit schwarzer Schrift "Berlin FediDay 2025". Dazu als Text: 2. Berliner Fediverse Tag, 3.-5. Oktober 2025, c-base, www.berlinfedi.day
♻️ berlinfediday: 🚀 2. Berliner Fediverse Day am 4. Oktober 2025 im @cbase Berlin! 🤘 Workshops, Vorträge & jede Menge #Fediverse‑Vibes – für Neulinge, Veteran:innen & alle dazwischen. Eintritt frei, let’s federate together!
Programm, Timetable und SpeakerInnen werden stetig… https://berlin.social/…
And a few weeks earlier: the German Fediverse Day. Great timing again, kicking off on this year's German Unity Day. (Unity - ATProto&ActivityPub - nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
berlinfedi.day
More details on the Franco-German Digital Sovereignty Summit here.
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
Today, I had the pleasure of meeting @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social at the invitation of the Austrian Chancellery at their summit on 🇪🇺 #digitalsovereignty
We are calling for #open protocols & #interoperability to be strengthened when building public #digital #infrastructure ✨
