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The Belarusian regime has designated several websites and social media channels of EU-funded initiatives and programmes as "extremist information sources". I strongly urge the regime to reverse this decision. Sweden, the EU, and our like-minded partners remain steadfast in our #Belarus #FreedomOfExpression #EU #BY #SE #EU

If websites host criminal videos, rather than just blame the host solely, might a government and it's police go arrest those posting the videos? Mad I know. Not absolving the sites but the government and Gardai are absolving the fucking criminals! #CriminalJustice #Accountability #LawEnforcement #IE #US

Ik had gehoopt dat de Europese verpakkingfetisj haar hoogtepunt had bereikt toen we plots allemaal braaf een stukje plastic tegen onze neus kregen als we ‘aan de fles zaten’. Ongetwijfeld een topmaatregel ‘voor het klimaat’. Maar ik had Brussel dus onderschat… Want: sinds 12 augustus geldt de nieuwe EPPWR, de Europese Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Een verordening die o.m. bedoeld is om de regels te harmoniseren en -onthou dit goed- de interne markt beter te laten functioneren. En hoe harmoniseert Europa dat? Juist: door géén Europees registratiesysteem te maken.😳 Elke lidstaat krijgt zijn eigen register… Dus…verkoop je als Belgische onderneming rechtstreeks verpakte producten aan klanten in Duitsland, Frankrijk, Spanje en Nederland? —> Dan moet je je in vier verschillende nationale systemen registreren, volgens vier nationale procedures en verplichtingen rond producentenverantwoordelijkheid.🤦‍♂️ —> Sterker nog: bij rechtstreekse grensoverschrijdende verkoop moet je in de bestemmingslanden ook een lokale vertegenwoordiger voor die producentenverantwoordelijkheid aanduiden.🙃 Single Market krijgt zo een bijzondere betekenis: 27 landen, 27 registers, 27 administraties…🤡 Maar Brussel heeft gelukkig aan de ‘gebruiksvriendelijkheid’ gedacht: de nationale registers moeten links bevatten naar de websites van de andere nationale registers.🤡 Geen Europees loket dus. Wel 27 loketten die naar elkaar linken.🫣 Ter info: dit is geen satire. Het staat gewoon zo in de regelgeving. Stel je nu een kleine Belgische webshop voor die een product van €40 verkoopt. Een Duitser bestelt er eentje. Een Fransman ook. Dan een Spanjaard. Fantastisch toch? Exact toch waarvoor de Europese interne markt ooit bedoeld was: honderden miljoenen potentiële klanten zonder handelsgrenzen, niet? Alleen zal die ondernemer nu allicht besluiten die buitenlandse klanten te niet te bedienen omdat Europa grensoverschrijdend verkopen administratief zwaar bemoeilijkt. Het fabeltje van één Europese interne markt krijgt zo wel een bijzondere invulling als je je land per land moet registreren om er een kartonnen doos naartoe te sturen. Maar goed, de planeet is gered! (Waarschijnlijk zonder een welvarend Europa, maar dat zal ze in Brussel duidelijk een zorg wezen…) #Economie #EuropeseUnie #Verpakkingswet

This article warns about the growing threat of AI-generated fake websites, which allow criminals to deceive inattentive consumers with extremely low prices, and provides six tips to identify these suspicious websites, such as paying attention to the URL, payment methods, quality marks, and unrealistic discounts. (translated)

Around half of newly published English-language online content is now AI-generated The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 shows that, for the first time, social media and video platforms have overtaken television and news websites as the primary source of news. https://t.co/SdsgxVb0oj #AIGenerated #DigitalNews #SocialMedia #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided #sotherearenocountrycodestoreturn.

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A Generation That Forgot the Shape of the Square On memory left to die alone By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands In a house near mine, there is a boy of thirteen. Born in 2013 just a few months younger than the July coup itself, younger than the new republic under whose shadow we now live. I asked him once, with no preamble, no test, out of nothing more than passing curiosity: do you know what January was? He answered simply, without hesitation, without any sense that he was missing something: "An old revolution, against Mubarak, right?" Not entirely wrong. But it is everything he knows. The name Tahrir Square means nothing specific to him. The sound of the crowd chanting has no echo in his mind. He does not know that his own family whom he sees every day saying "thank God for stability," who warn him against "chaos" whenever a political headline crosses the screen once, at a moment two years before he was born, went down into the street, betting their entire lives on the possibility that something might change. This article is not about politics. It is about memory, and about who decides what gets told and what is left to die in silence. I. Who Erases the Picture? The first question that comes to mind is the easiest and most deceptive one: who erases this memory? And where do we begin holding them accountable? But the truth is too complex to reduce to a single actor. No one actually erases memory, in the literal sense of the act. There is no ministry called the "Ministry of Forgetting," no presidential decree ordering January struck from the collective consciousness. What happens is simpler than that, and more dangerous at once: the subject is simply never told. School says nothing. The textbook leaps from one period to another without pausing on January for more than two faded lines, composed with deliberate neutrality, devoid of any detail that might make the event feel alive to its young reader. Television no longer has any reason to return to it; the programmes that once hosted witnesses and activists stopped years ago, replaced by an official discourse that mentions January only in passing, as an unfortunate prelude to the "stability" that supposedly followed. And the home the most dangerous link of all has become afraid of the subject. Speech now carries a price, and many families, whether consciously or by sheer survival instinct, have decided that silence is safer than the story. The father who marched fears passing on to his son a curiosity that might one day lead him into trouble the family cannot afford. The mother who lost a friend in the events prefers not to reopen the wound before a child who does not yet grasp the weight of loss. And so, generation after generation, the circle of those who know shrinks, and the circle of those who do not even ask because they do not know there is anything worth asking widens. No one decided to erase the memory through an explicit decision. The memory was simply left to die alone, with no one tending it. And it is precisely this decentralised absence of responsibility that makes this kind of erasure more dangerous than any direct official ban: there is no single decision to challenge, no single body to hold accountable. Responsibility is distributed across thousands of small decisions made by thousands of individuals, each within their own context, each seeming reasonable when viewed in isolation. II. Why This Is More Dangerous Than Direct Repression An objection might be raised: is direct repression arrest, imprisonment, publishing bans not far more lethal than mere gradual forgetting? The answer is complex, and deserves calm unpacking. Direct repression can be seen. It can be documented, and the victim can know they are a victim, can tell their story, and their pain can become a testimony added to the collective memory, even if it never reaches justice. The political prisoner knows he is a political prisoner. The journalist banned from writing knows he is banned, and can tell the world he is banned. Direct repression, for all its cruelty, leaves a trace that can be followed. But a generation that has forgotten something happened at all does not even have a starting point from which to ask. This thirteen-year-old boy will never ask "why were we repressed?" because he does not know there is anything deserving that question in the first place. He feels no absence, because he does not know there is anything absent. He simply lives in a version of reality stripped of an entire chapter of his country’s history, and never for a moment suspects that this void is a void at all. Here lies the essence of the danger: direct repression creates victims who know they are victims. Erasure of memory, when it succeeds, creates a generation that does not even know it has been deprived of anything. And deprivation that is not felt cannot be resisted, because resistance always begins with an awareness of loss. The regime that came after 2013 does not need to convince the new generation that January was a mistake. That would be an arduous, costly task, requiring sustained propaganda and continuous effort to persuade each individual one by one. It is far easier, and strategically far more efficient, simply to ensure they never know it was anything at all. The void requires no defence; it requires only silence, and silence is free and always available. III. The Four Mechanisms of Erasure Four complementary mechanisms can be identified working together to produce this collective void not as an organised conspiracy, but as a system of incentives that pushes each party, consciously or not, to contribute to the same process. The first mechanism: formal education. The curriculum, as currently designed, treats January as a passing footnote rather than a founding event deserving detail and analysis. The student memorises two dates the start of the revolution and its presumed end without understanding why people took to the streets, what they were demanding, or how they felt in that pivotal moment. The second mechanism: broadcast media. The channels that once hosted live discussions on January, featuring varied perspectives, have gradually disappeared, or transformed their discourse entirely. Today’s televised image either ignores the anniversary altogether, or invokes it only to frame it as a prelude to chaos that must be avoided. The third mechanism: the silence of homes. This is the most dangerous of all, precisely because it is the most human and understandable. Parents who lived through the experience protect it with silence, not out of aversion to the story, but out of fear of its price. This silence, however legitimate its motives, achieves exactly the same effect as official censorship: it blocks the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next. The fourth mechanism: the absence of alternative spaces. Even those among the new generation who wish to know cannot easily find places to look. Archives are scattered, trustworthy websites are blocked or require effort to reach, and personal testimonies are dispersed across corners of the internet that an ordinary student at an ordinary school will never stumble upon. These four mechanisms require no central coordination to work together. Each naturally serves the others, and all converge on a single result: a growing void in the consciousness of every new generation. IV. Memory as an Act of Resistance If erasure operates without a centre, then resisting it must also be decentralised. No one waits for a government decision to restore January to the curriculum, nor for a television programme to revive the testimonies. Resistance here is necessarily individual, happening in small details, in passing conversations, in the simple decision to tell rather than to stay silent. This is exactly what I try to do, without any claim to heroism, without any grand mission. I try, whenever I can, to tell the thirteen-year-old boy and others like him details that are never written in official reports or in schoolbooks: what the voices in the square sounded like, how someone felt the first time they realised change was possible, what that moment of hope was like before everything changed. The goal is not to bring back the past; the past cannot be brought back. The goal is that this boy, when he grows older and asks again and he will ask, because the questions always return at some point finds someone to tell him the full story, not two faded lines in a schoolbook. That he knows the stability he is told is the fruit of "wisdom" has a prior history, that this history carried other possibilities, and that real people bet their lives on those possibilities. V. Why This Matters Now Talking about the memory of a generation not yet aware might seem an intellectual luxury next to more urgent matters: arrests, a collapsing economy, regional wars. But the truth is that this issue is the foundation on which every other issue is built. A people who do not know they once rose up will not understand why they should ever think of rising again. A generation raised to believe "stability" is the only natural state possible will never ask itself what drove its own parents, shortly before it was born, to risk everything for an alternative that was never guaranteed. Memory is not a luxury; it is the reference point by which every generation measures its present, and through which it determines what is possible and what is not. And whoever understands this understands why erasing memory, not direct repression alone, is among the most important tools of any regime seeking to guarantee its permanence: because a people who have forgotten they were once free will not even know they are missing freedom. Memory, like the word, needs someone to tell it in order to survive. And when the tellers stop, memory does not die suddenly; it withers slowly, generation after generation, until the day comes when a boy asks an innocent question, and finds no one to answer him but two faded lines in a schoolbook.

Ursula zegt dat verplichte online leeftijdsverificatie nodig is “om onze kinderen te beschermen.” Dat klinkt mooi. Maar de vraag is niet of we kinderen willen beschermen. ➡️ De vraag is of we daarvoor de vrijheid en privacy van de héle bevolking moeten opofferen. Want iedereen zal worden gecontroleerd voor het gedrag van een minderheid: om te weten of minderjarigen ergens binnen mogen, moet iedereen zich identificeren. Ook u en ik dus. Dat draait al een eerste fundamenteel rechtsprincipe op z’n kop: niet langer ben je vrij zolang er geen verdenking is, maar moet je eerst bewijzen dat je “oké” bent. ➡️Het is ook weerom een compleet disproportionele maatregel. Stel dat de overheid morgen beslist om huishoudelijk geweld te bestrijden door in élke woonkamer een camera te hangen. De beelden worden gecontroleerd door algoritmes en ambtenaren, want “het is voor de veiligheid”. Iedereen zou dat terecht een hallucinant idee vinden. ➡️ Function creep: vandaag hiervoor en morgen waarvoor? -Vandaag leeftijdsverificatie. -Morgen sociale media. -Overmorgen AI? -Daarna nieuwswebsites? En daarna misschien nog veel meer. Dat is exact hoe function creep werkt: uitzonderingen worden de nieuwe norm. ➡️Criminelen lachen ermee. Wie echt kwaad wil, gebruikt VPN’s, buitenlandse websites, gestolen accounts of andere technische omwegen. Opnieuw worden de miljoenen burgers gecontroleerd die zich wél aan de regels houden. ➡️ Dit creëert nog maar eens bijkomende gevoelige databanken. Leeftijdsverificatie betekent dat iets of iemand uw en mijn leeftijd en identiteit moet controleren. Dat creëert bijkomende databanken met gevoelige persoonsgegevens die kunnen worden gehackt, misbruikt of later voor andere doeleinden worden gebruikt. ➡️ Waar blijven de ouders trouwens? Kinderen opvoeden is in de eerste plaats de verantwoordelijkheid van ouders, niet van de overheid, alsjeblieft niet. En ook niet van technologiebedrijven. En al zeker niet van een controlesysteem dat elke burger preventief behandelt alsof hij zich eerst moet verantwoorden. De discussie gaat dus niet over de vraag of we kinderen willen beschermen. Die wil iedereen. De discussie gaat over de vraag hoeveel vrijheid, privacy en autonomie we bereid zijn op te geven voor maatregelen waarvan nog altijd niet is aangetoond dat ze hun doel daadwerkelijk zullen bereiken. Los daarvan is dit wel een topzomer voor Ursula en haar volgelingen: Chat Control er toch door, Europese CBDC, online leeftijdsverificatie en dus identiteitscontrole. All her dreams coming true. En geen burger die op haar gestemd heeft. #Privacy #Vrijheid #OnlineVeiligheid

A Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) e a plataforma Airbnb alertaram para o aumento de burlas relacionadas a alojamentos online durante o período de férias de verão, recomendando aos consumidores cautela ao reservar e prestar atenção a sinais de fraudes, como websites falsos e ofertas excessivamente baratas. #Burla #PSP #Airbnb

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Im Rahmen der internationalen „Operation Endgame“ haben Ermittler von Europol und Microsoft über 340 Command-and-Control-Server sowie 15.000 kriminelle Websites lahmgelegt, um gegen die weltweit verbreiteten Schadprogramme „SocGholish“, „Amadey“ und „StealC“ vorzugehen, wobei künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt wurde, um die Analyse der Schadsoftware zu beschleunigen und so die Organisation der Cyberkriminalität entscheidend zu destabilisieren. #OperationEndgame #Cyberkriminalität #Schadsoftware