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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future

In 1992, the top ten US billionaires controlled 0.4% of the USA economy. Today, that is 8%.

And; you are the product.

#monopoly #antichrist #surveillancecapatalism
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CDA 230 Thirty Year Anniversary - Netopia Remember the internet in the 1990s? No social media, no video-sharing, no encrypted chats. It was early days enthusiasm, the wonder of sending messages across the world, chatting with strangers on ICQ...

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"Much of the regulation and compliance requirements that have been brought in the last decade – DSA, DMA, different flavours of national regulation and so on – come from the need to mitigate or reverse the effects of CDA 230."

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It - Netopia Review of The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff (Cornell University Press 2019) The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff, cyber-security law professor at...

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It

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#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act).

Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future

In 1992, the top ten US billionaires controlled 0.4% of the USA economy. Today, that is 8%.

And; you are the product.

#monopoly #antichrist #surveillancecapatalism
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Legible junk

The new Gilded Age The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power

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#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act).

U.S. Lists Notorious Piracy Threats, With Focus on Sports Streaming * TorrentFreak The U.S. Trade Representative has published its annual list of problematic piracy websites and other "notorious markets."

U.S. Lists Notorious Piracy Threats, With Focus on Sports Streaming

torrentfreak.com/u-s-lists-no... #sports #audiovisual #sportspiracy #copyright

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European Parliament on film - Behind the scenes Plenary Session, February 2026

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It - Netopia Review of The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff (Cornell University Press 2019) The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff, cyber-security law professor at...

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It

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Stolen content cannot be copyrighted.
The Supreme Court upholds the ideal that ill-gotten gains are not rewarded!

Meta takes your content seriously.

--->> Meta asserts fair use for distributing pirated books in US copyright case

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Stolen content cannot be copyrighted.
The Supreme Court upholds the ideal that ill-gotten gains are not rewarded!

European Publishers Council files formal antitrust complaint against Google over AI Overviews and AI Mode The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission alleging that Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. are abusing their dominant position in general search service...

European Publishers Council has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission alleging that Google’s use of AI in search such as AI Overviews and AI Mode abuse its dominant position. www.epceurope.eu/post/europea...

Netopia The future of the internet: Netopia takes its departure point in human rights and a broad perspective on society’s digital evolution.

For a deeper look at how Section 230 shaped the modern platform economy, see:
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#Section230 #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalMarketsAct #PlatformRegulation #OnlineLiability #EURegulation #TechPolicy #Netopia

Netopia The future of the internet: Netopia takes its departure point in human rights and a broad perspective on society’s digital evolution.

For a deeper look at how Section 230 shaped the modern platform economy, see:
netopia.eu/cda-230-thir...

#Section230 #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalMarketsAct #PlatformRegulation #OnlineLiability #EURegulation #TechPolicy #Netopia

They all stole your intellectual property.

No AI has a high moral.

What if It’s Not Tech Addiction, but Something Worse? - Netopia Our devices control us more than we control them. We have become slaves to technology. Instant gratification triggers our dopamine system keeping us hooked on social media. We touch our phones several...

What if addiction were the lesser of the evils?

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Hollywood, Amazon & Netflix Set to Secure $18.75 Million Damages in IPTV Lawsuit * TorrentFreak Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix sued a Dallas IPTV operator and are close to being rewarded with a $18.75 million default judgment.

Hollywood, Amazon & Netflix Set to Secure $18.75 Million Damages in IPTV Lawsuit

torrentfreak.com/hollywood-am... #IPTV #CopyrightEnforcement #DigitalPiracy #StreamingWars #HollywoodStudios #AmazonPrimeVideo #Netflix #ContentProtection #IntellectualProperty #AntiPiracy

CDA 230 Thirty Year Anniversary - Netopia Remember the internet in the 1990s? No social media, no video-sharing, no encrypted chats. It was early days enthusiasm, the wonder of sending messages across the world, chatting with strangers on ICQ...

It is fair to say that much of the regulation and compliance requirements that have been brought in the last decade – Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act – come from the need to mitigate or reverse the effects of CDA 230. www.netopia.eu/cda-230-thir...

CDA 230 Thirty Year Anniversary - Netopia Remember the internet in the 1990s? No social media, no video-sharing, no encrypted chats. It was early days enthusiasm, the wonder of sending messages across the world, chatting with strangers on ICQ...

CDA 230 Thirty-Year Anniversary
Think about it: neutral platforms. Network neutrality. Principles of non-interference. It makes sense for roads, so why not expand it to all kinds of services?
www.netopia.eu/cda-230-thir... #regulation #copyright #cda230 #tech #digitalpolicy

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They all stole your intellectual property.

No AI has a high moral.

Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang Greece’s “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe’s biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

www.politico.eu/article/pred... Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang
Greece’s “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe’s biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

New filing: "Dow Jones v. Perplexity AI (News Corp sues Perplexity for copyright and false designation of origin)"
Doc #103: Response to Motion

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AI music-making platform ProducerAI acquired by Google Google has acquired ProducerAI, the AI music creation platform formerly known as Riffusion, bringing the startup and its team into Google Labs.

Google acquires AI music platform – and Suno challenger – ProducerAI

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Sony targets AI music copyright use | Digital Watch Observatory New tool aims to protect composers’ rights.

Sony targets AI music copyright use

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Any mention of intellectual property TDM exceptions?

U16 ban incoming....