Bosnian genocide survivor fired from Luxembourg school over pro-Palestine posts
A Luxembourg elementary school teacher and Bosnian genocide survivor has been dismissed from her position after the Ministry of National Education ruled that her Instagram posts in support of Gaza constituted "antisemitic expression".
The ministry’s decision was made without notice on October 7, 2025, a date Fatima described as symbolic and deeply unsettling. She said officials relied on screenshots from her personal Instagram account, where she has more than 111,000 followers and regularly shares commentary critical of 'Israel’s' actions in Gaza. According to Fatima, her lawyer reviewed the ministry’s evidence and agreed to take the case, convinced that the accusations lack merit.
Fatima says she has endured repeated police complaints and monitoring from the organization RIAL, which lists her in its annual report on antisemitism. None of the examples cited in the report provide clear evidence of antisemitic statements, according to déi aner. Fatima claims the group has monitored her for nearly two years and that the labeling has taken an emotional toll.
Bosnian genocide survivor fired from Luxembourg school over pro-Palestine posts
Fatima K (Credit: aamitaaf7 via Instagram)Roya News
distros with isolated programs?
I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.
Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you're running.
If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don't know how to limit is GPU compute.
Why I Dumped YouTube (and Why You Might Want to Too – No More Crap)
Hey Lemmy fam,
After years of wading through endless crap—click‑bait thumbnails, algorithmic rabbit holes, and non‑stop ads—I finally stopped using YouTube. Below are the main reasons I walked away and a handful of privacy‑friendly alternatives that let you keep the content you love without the garbage.
YouTube’s recommendation engine throws endless crap at you, turning a 5‑minute tutorial into a 2‑hour binge you never signed up for.
What I do instead:
- Lemmy – I follow specific communities (
r/technology,c/firefox,c/degoogle ``) and browse chronologically or by “Hot”. No hidden agenda, just the posts I chose. - RSS feeds – Subscribe to the channels I actually care about via an RSS reader (Feedly, Newsboat, or Lemmy’s built‑in RSS). New videos appear as they’re posted, no surprise junk.
Every view, pause, and hover is logged and sold to advertisers. Even with an ad‑blocker, YouTube still harvests data through its API calls and cookies.
What I do instead:
- PeerTube – Decentralized, ad‑free video hosting. Each instance runs its own moderation and privacy policies. You can even self‑host a node if you want full control.
Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home
A seemingly indispensable aide until today, Yermak was a former intellectual property lawyer and film producer who knew Zelenskyy in his days as an actor and comedian before helping him be elected as president. Yermak became a foreign policy adviser, then the president’s chief of staff in February 2020.Rapidly he assumed a central position as Zelenskyy’s gatekeeper in the charge of the president’s office. He was routinely consulted on foreign policy, domestic affairs and appointments. Never far from Zelenskyy’s side, the two were particularly close during the early days of the invasion, when Kyiv was under threat.
Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home
Ukrainian president announces departure of Andriy Yermak, who was leading peace talks with USDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Tesco worker facing hearing for refusing to sell 'Israeli' products
Pro-Palestine campaigners have turned up in their hundreds to a Tesco branch in the small County Down seaside town of Newcastle, protesting disciplinary action being taken against a worker who refused to assist in the sale of items from so-called ‘Israel’. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, objected on the basis that the proceeds from such items go to fund the Zionist entity’s genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people.
The action from Tesco management had first been highlighted in a post on the social media page of local activist group Mourne for Palestine, whose name is a play on words using the name of a notable nearby mountain range. Alongside the statement can be found more wordplay, with Tesco’s slogan remixed to say “Every little helps genocide”. The group said:
Today’s protest was organised by direct action group BDS Belfast, with activists pouring in from across Ireland, recognising the significance of a worker taking such a stand. A strong union presence was visible, with representatives from Unison, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and union-linked solidarity group Trade Union Friends of Palestine among those in attendance. The action from the worker represents the most noteworthy instance of this form of defiance in the North of Ireland since the Zionist settler-colony began its campaign of mass murder over two years ago.
Tesco worker refuses to sell Israeli products
Just as Dunnes workers led the boycott of South African items, so too is one Tesco worker leading the boycott of Israeli products in IrelandRobert Freeman (The Canary)
China’s AI stock rally has room to run as valuations lag US giants: Goldman
China’s AI stock rally has room to run as valuations lag US giants, Goldman Sachs says
AI stock rally is sustainable and tech shares will be driven by application-focused growth, chief China equity strategist Kinger Lau says.Aileen Chuang (South China Morning Post)
Inside Khartoum: Sudan’s ravaged capital where paramilitaries looted history
Inside Khartoum: Sudan’s ravaged capital where paramilitaries looted history
A burnt-out armoured car fitted with an anti-aircraft gun rusts away inside what used to be the lobby of Khartoum’s wrecked Meridien hotel. Khartoum hospital, a colonial-style building dating back to the British era, is out of action.Peter Oborne (Middle East Eye)
Palestine Action prisoner hospitalised due to hunger strike
An activist held on remand in a British prison on charges connected to the direct action group Palestine Action has been hospitalised after entering his second week of hunger strike.
Kamran Ahmed is among six prisoners who launched a rolling hunger strike earlier this month after UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood failed to respond to a letter outlining demands relating to their treatment.
These included immediate bail and an end to prison interference with their personal communications, as well as lifting the ban on Palestine Action.
In July, the UK government proscribed the direct action group under terrorism legislation, making it a criminal offence to be a member of or show support for the organisation.
Palestine Action prisoner hospitalised due to hunger strike
An activist held on remand in a British prison on charges connected to the direct action group Palestine Action has been hospitalised after entering his second week of hunger strike.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
Switch to a Fully free Operating System
As per fsf only those linux distributions are 100% free:
Dragora
Dyne
Guix
Hyperbola
Parabola
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo
libreCMC
ProteanOS
Do you agree or no?
I see a lot of people that want to switch from windows to a linux distro or a open os. But from what i see they tend to migrate to another black boxed/closed os.
What is a trully free os that doesnt included any closed code/binary blobs/closed drivers etc.
Just 100% free open code, no traps.
What are the options and what should one go with if they want fully free os that rejects any closed code?
Hard disagree. Only people that are already in linux-land should even think or talk about this, and only after they're aware of what they depend on and whether they can even do that in the first place.
Main reason: biggest thing holding Linux back is user-base. The more users there are, the more that companies will actually care about supporting the OS. In the meantime, newbies to Linux need an OS that is as hassle free as possible that supports what they need. Windows and macOS have their downsides, but you can't disagree that they work out of the box. You only get a few chances to get someone to even think about switching ecosystems, and going to a straight free distro is another huge hurdle on top of that. Most closed source applications only get tested on debian/rhel based distros anyway, I wouldn't be able to do my my day job on a distro outside of that without some serious headache.
There are many closed source components that don't have equivalent open source alternatives, and features are a thing that will snag many people. Most people aren't technical.
What do you think of tools for setting colorschemes in many apps at once, like pywal and base16?
It's very clear that the ricing community wants to set any given colorscheme in many apps automatically, most tools do so either with wallpapers (which is inherently opinionated), or the base16 spec. The original base16 repo hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and 16 colors simply isn't enough to make rich granular themes, especially when code has many different syntax elements. We need a successor that allows for more colors on both TUIs and GUIs, more than 16 colors (like 24 or even 32), mapped more granularly.
My story:
I've spent lots of time looking at how to have good colorschemes in apps that change dynamically, to make my desktop pretty and with variety. Many tools can apply colorschemes to apps using image / wallpaper colors like Matugen and Pywal. These tools are very well made, but I realized I actually prefer rainbow colorschemes like Catppuccin. Either way I got attached Matugen, fortunately it can be used without wallpapers and supports custom keywords, there are also base16 colorscheme managers like flavours and tinty.
But Cattppuccin's base16 theme didn't look right compared to its Neovim plugin. The plugin is very well integrated and colors a lot things for you that base16 plugins may not, I would have to set certain UI colors myself if I wanted them to match. Some of the major colors (variables, keywords, brackets, etc.) were shuffled around, so out of the box Catppuccin's base16 theme doesn't even match Cattppuccin's original vision / color harmony. All of this probably applies to other colorschemes as well. So if I want to switch between different schemes while staying true to each one, I would need to set up plugins for each app rather than automatically.
GitHub - chriskempson/base16: A Framework for building Themes
A Framework for building Themes. Contribute to chriskempson/base16 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Gaza nurse held by Israel says she was abducted by Abu Shabab gang
A Palestinian nurse says she was abducted by an Israeli-backed gang from the Gaza Strip earlier this year and handed over to the Israeli army, who used her to pressure her detained doctor father during interrogations.
Tasneem al-Hams, 22, was released in Khan Younis on Thursday, nearly two months after she was arbitrarily taken into Israeli custody.
Upon her release, she told local media she was abducted by members of the Israel-backed Popular Forces armed group - otherwise known as Abu Shabab gang.
"They then handed me over to the Israelis, east of Khan Younis," she added.
The nurse was abducted while working at a medical facility in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to her family.
The ultralight gummy bear power bank just got yanked from Amazon
The ultralight gummy bear power bank just got yanked from Amazon
Amazon has removed the ultralight Haribo Mini Power Bank from its website and is canceling orders for the device.Emma Roth (The Verge)
If I keep js disabled and then use extension will it still be a fingerprinting issue?
So if I keep js disabled with Ublock origin (I'm doing it for a while now) and then install dark reader will websites still be able to tell that I have dark reader installed?
This could be a fingerprint as very few people keep JS off and you might stand out.
On the other hand, the browser gives out very little information without JS active. Turn off JS and test your browser on deviceinfo, amiunique, etc and see how many entries are "unknown".
I played around with coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and realized that I'm quite unique whether I allow js or not. Many trackers get blocked by the absence of js though so that would hamper them somewhat.
My Sony phone with 21:9 screen ensures I'm uncommon compared to most.
My goal isn't to be untrackable but to block the ads they try to shove in your face as step 2.
Interesting, it seems that while IronFox has the protections activated by default (and with some changes) you can also activate most of them on Firefox.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…
Ironfox Devs themselves say that the only browser that can truly protect you against fingerprinting is the Tor Browser.
github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox…
Do you feel IronFox breaks many sites for you?
IronFox/docs/Features.md at dev · ironfox-oss/IronFox
Private, secure, user first web browser for Android. This is a read-only mirror of https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox. - ironfox-oss/IronFoxGitHub
Liberals be like "this is a legitimate and not at all totalitarian government"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Te…
Wanting to consolidate its rule on its remaining territories, the KMT imposed harsh political suppression measures, which included enacting martial law, executing suspected leftists or those they suspected to be sympathetic toward the communists.[5] Others targeted included Taiwanese locals and indigenous peoples who participated in the 28 February incident, such as Uyongʉ Yata'uyungana, and those accused of dissidence for criticizing the government.[6]
Another classic case of "every anticommunist cliche is actually projection"
NATO members terrorizing their own people – Russian envoy
NATO members terrorizing their own people – Russian envoy
Russian Ambassador to Belgium Denis Gonchar has accused European NATO members of terrorizing their people into supporting a war with MoscowRT
Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office
Andriy Yermak, the influential chief of staff of Ukraine's President, has resigned hours after the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) conducted searches in his office.
Yermak Resigns After Ukrainian Anti-Graft Investigators Launch Surprise Search Of His Office
Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches in the office of the presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, NABU said in a statement on November 28.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
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I keep seeing the same things in my feed
On another popular site I can refresh my feed and it's instantly all new things to explore. But here on Lemmy when I refresh, I get either the same top posts (with little new activity) or I see them just down a bit.
I've chosen subs that are active, and a mix of subscribed and local subs.
What settings are best to have a similar experience where if you refresh your feed you see new things to subs you're interested in? Even choosing 'new' its like.. there's no new activity when I refresh.
Thank you in advance
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show read posts , and save. Then you won't see any of the same posts again after you've read them.
Fleet of UPS planes grounded after deadly crash expected to miss peak delivery season
Fleet of UPS planes grounded after deadly crash expected to miss peak delivery season
A fleet of planes that UPS grounded after a deadly crash isn’t expected to be back in service during the peak holiday season.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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Michael Carley: Rewriting WW2 - Historical Revisionism in Geopolitics
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UAE launched 'lobbying blitz' on European Parliament over Sudan war resolution
The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Dutch Member of European Parliament (MEP) Marit Maij told DW News about plans to “call on the European Commission to stop the trade negotiations with the UAE for as long as we see that weapons are going through the UAE to the RSF,” referring to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The call comes in the wake of the widespread atrocities committed by the RSF during its siege and eventual capture of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, which were abetted by advanced weaponry from the UAE.
But following a lobbying effort from an Emirati delegation to Strasbourg led by envoy Lana Nusseibeh, the final resolution passed on Thursday included no references to the UAE’s role in the war.
UAE launched 'lobbying blitz' on European Parliament over Sudan war resolution
The United Arab Emirates “embarked on a lobbying blitz” of European Parliament members to ensure its involvement in the war in Sudan was not mentioned in a resolution calling for the conflict's end, Politico reported on Thursday.Shraddha Joshi (Middle East Eye)
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's chief of staff Andriy Yermak has home raided by anti-corruption officials
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigns after home raided by anti-corruption officials
Ukrainian anti-corruption officials raid the home of a top aide to President Zelenskyy in connection with a major probe into an energy sector corruption scandal.CBS News
Possible to avoid Google's future open source ban on Android devices?
Google cracks down! APKs, ROMs, and Emulators banned — is Android freedom over?
Google is implementing a significant policy shift, banning unverified APKs, ROMs, and certain emulators on certified Android devices starting in 2026.Muskan Singh (Economic Times)
I'm guessing that maintaining such forks would be prohibitive. Especially since they do have resources to play cat and mice
But I don't really know much about Android code, I'm just relying what I've heard
Google has partly backed away from this plan, and it was only announced for "certified" Android devices, which yours isn't after rooting.
It does affect you indirectly though. If open source on Android gets harder, fewer people will do it.
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China aims to build a new ‘air-space-land-sea-network’ infrastructure system by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period: ministry
China aims to build a new ‘air-space-land-sea-network’ infrastructure system by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period: ministry
China aims to build a new “air-space-land-sea-network” infrastructure system and develop a Chinese version of a holographic digital Earth by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, the Ministry of Natural Resources said.www.globaltimes.cn
Humanity Is Desperate for Rare Earth Elements. This Plant Is Growing Them Right Under Our Feet.
Humanity Is Desperate for Rare Earth Elements. This Plant Is Growing Them Right Under Our Feet.
A new study analyzed the nanoscale chemistry of the Blechnum orientale fern, which can form crystals of monazite in its cell walls and spaces between cells.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
Deforestation has turned Africa's forests from carbon sinks to carbon sources, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.University of Leicester (Phys.org)
EU state considering dismantling rail tracks to Russia – media
EU state considering dismantling rail tracks to Russia – media
Latvia is considering removing sections of railway line leading into Russia, citing border securityRT
No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it
Sorry but.. why on earth would you do that? Kali is a specialized distro, it's not made for day to day desktop use, much less for gaming on it. If you want to game on Linux, pick either a generic or gaming-oriented distro, and use Kali in a VM or dualboot.
Using a custom domain with two seprate email accounts.
I purchased a custom domain to use with mailbox.org.
The MX records are setup and basic tests are working. I'm getting myname@customdomain.com showing up in my mailbox.org account.
But I got confused with setting up a family member with theirname@customdomain.com
Do they need to pay for a plan too?
There not worried about the privacy they just want the custom email address. Is there anyway to do this for free or cheaper, without self hosting email?
Side question. I've been paying for anonaddy to hide my normal @outlook account. Are there any benefits in keeping anonaddy to send emails to my custom domain. Instead of just using a catchall, or pre-configuring some aliases?
The only benifits I see are
- Anonaddy can make accounts on the fly
- On The Fly accounts might be easier to disable than
things sent to a catchall - Anonaddy dosnt reveal your domain (maybe this is the big draw card?)
Thanks.
Is this via a rule, as in the email hits the inbox then gets sent on.
Or is it a setting when you configure the alias.
Where the email goes to fastmail then gets sent onto gmail, are you limited to replying from the gmail?
Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.
You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.
10 Syrians killed in Israeli operation in southern Syria’s Beit Jin, 6 IDF soldiers injured
An Israeli operation in the village of Beit Jin in the Damascus countryside killed 10 people, including women and children, Syrian state media reported, marking the latest Israeli incursion into southern Syria.
The Israeli military said six soldiers were wounded — three of them seriously — after troops came under fire from gunmen during an arrest operation early Friday.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, shortly before 3 a.m., soldiers from the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade entered Beit Jinn — around seven kilometres (4.3 miles) east of the Israeli border — to arrest two members of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) based on recent intelligence suggesting they were planning attacks on Israel.
to arrest two members of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) based on recent intelligence suggesting they were planning attacks on Israel.
Always the same lie about security concerns because they know they can
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55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade entered Beit Jinn — around seven kilometres (4.3 miles) east of the Israeli border
Golan Heights are not Israel territory, Israel-Syrian border it's at 20 km
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Defend Our Juries on Instagram: "Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org"
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West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
The Palestinian Authority says the killings are a "war crime", while an Israeli minister backed the soldiers.Jon Donnison (BBC News)
Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
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Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR
Since then, two things have happened:
The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.
noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.
What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”
Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:
New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.
This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).
Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.
Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.
For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.
Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.
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Last week we at EFRI wrote about the Digital Omnibus leak and warned that the European Commission was preparing a stealth attack on the GDPR
Since then, two things have happened:
The Commission has now officially published its Digital Omnibus proposal.
noyb (Max Schrems’ organisation) has released a detailed legal analysis and new campaigning material that confirms our worst fears: this is not harmless “simplification”, it is a deregulation package that cuts into the core of the GDPR and ePrivacy.
What noyb has now put on the table
On 19 November 2025, noyb published a new piece with the blunt headline: “Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles”
Here’s a focused summary of the four core points from noyb’s announcement, in plain language:
New GDPR loophole via “pseudonyms” and IDs
The Commission wants to narrow the definition of “personal data” so that much data under pseudonyms or random IDs (ad-tech, data brokers, etc.) might no longer fall under the GDPR.
This would mean a shift from an objective test (“can a person be identified, directly or indirectly?”) to a subjective test (“does this company currently want or claim to be able to identify someone?”).
Therefore, whether the GDPR applies would depend on what a company says about its own capabilities and intentions.
Different companies handling the same dataset could fall inside or outside the GDPR.
For users and authorities, it becomes almost impossible to know ex ante whether the GDPR applies – endless arguments over a company’s “true intentions”.
Schrems’ analogy: it’s like a gun law that only applies if the gun owner admits he can handle the gun and intends to shoot – obviously absurd as a regulatory concept.
Weakening ePrivacy protection for data on your device
Today, Article 5(3) ePrivacy protects against remote access to data on your devices (PCs, smartphones, etc.) – based on the Charter right to the confidentiality of communications.
The Commission now wants to add broad “white-listed” exceptions for access to terminal equipment, including “aggregated statistics” and “security purposes”.
Max Schrems finds the wording of the new rule to be extremely permissive and could effectively allow extensive remote scanning or “searches” of user devices,ces as long as they are framed as minimal “security” or “statistics” operations – undermining the current strong protection against device-level snooping.
Opening the door for AI training on EU personal data (Meta, Google, etc.)
Despite clear public resistance (only a tiny minority wants Meta to use their data for AI), the Commission wants to allow Big Tech to train AI on highly personal data, e.g. 15+ years of social-media history.
Schrems’ core argument:
People were told their data is for “connecting” or advertising – now it is fed into opaque AI models, enabling those systems to infer intimate details and manipulate users.
The main beneficiaries are US Big Tech firms building base models from Europeans’ personal data.
The Commission relies on an opt-out approach, but in practice:
Companies often don’t know which specific users’ data are in a training dataset.
Users don’t know which companies are training on their data.
Realistically, people would need to send thousands of opt-outs per year – impossible.
Schrems calls this opt-out a “fig leaf” to cover fundamentally unlawful processing.
On top of training, the proposal would also privilege the “operation” of AI systems as a legal basis – effectively a wildcard: processing that would be illegal under normal GDPR rules becomes legal if it’s done “for AI”. Resulting in an inversion of normal logic: riskier technology (AI) gets lower, not higher, legal standards.
Cutting user rights back to almost zero – driven by German demands
The starting point for this attack on user rights is a debate in Germany about people using GDPR access rights in employment disputes, for example to prove unpaid overtime. The German government chose to label such use as “abuse” and pushed in Brussels for sharp limits on these rights. The Commission has now taken over this line of argument and proposes to restrict the GDPR access right to situations where it is exercised for “data protection purposes” only.
In practice, this would mean that employees could be refused access to their own working-time records in labour disputes. Journalists and researchers could be blocked from using access rights to obtain internal documents and data that are crucial for investigative work. Consumers who want to challenge and correct wrong credit scores in order to obtain better loan conditions could be told that their request is “not a data-protection purpose” and therefore can be rejected.
This approach directly contradicts both CJEU case law and Article 8(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Court has repeatedly confirmed that data-subject rights may be exercised for any purpose, including litigation and gathering evidence against a company. As Max Schrems points out, there is no evidence of widespread abuse of GDPR rights by citizens; what we actually see in practice is widespread non-compliance by companies. Cutting back user rights in this situation shifts the balance even further in favour of controllers and demonstrates how detached the Commission has become from the day-to-day reality of users trying to defend themselves.
EFRI’s take: when Big Tech lobbying becomes lawmaking
For EFRI, the message is clear: the Commission has decided that instead of forcing Big Tech and financial intermediaries to finally comply with the GDPR, it is easier to move the goalposts and rewrite the rules in their favour. The result is a quiet but very real redistribution of power – away from citizens, victims, workers and journalists, and towards those who already control the data and the infrastructure. If this package goes through in anything like its current form, it will confirm that well-organised corporate lobbying can systematically erode even the EU’s flagship fundamental-rights legislation. That makes it all the more important for consumer organisations, victim groups and digital-rights advocates to push back – loudly, publicly and with concrete case stories – before the interests of Big Tech are permanently written into EU law.
Summary on Proposed Crypto Regulation in the EU and the US - EFRI identifies financial crime enablers to curb cyberfraud
EU’s MiCA sets strict crypto rules while US regulation remains fragmented. EFRI compares both regimes and their impact on exchanges, tokens, and DeFi.Elfriede Sixt (European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI))
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in reply to ILoveUnions • • •That's the one who's only sources is literal CIA radio free Asia cutouts and one Mr Adrian, "I am on a mission from God to destroy Beijing" Zenz, correct? The one funded by NED money? Whose "local" front organization is straight-up headquartered in Washington DC?If we're lying about that, shouldn't you be able to prove it? Gaza is the most heavily controlled and censored place on earth, yet I still see daily video of the killing. Xinjiang is an open tourist mecca that saw 300 million visitors from around the world last year, yet nobody has seen one shred of violence. Make it make sense for me, cultist.
I watched four riot cops break a college kid's arm right in front of me for being against Palestinian genocide. And then shitlibs like you insisted I had to vote for the genocide to continue, or else I wanted the genocide to continue. Choke on your hypocrisy, fascist-in-denial.
It's so cute when you try to use big words you don't understand. Fascism is when you legally take reposession of your own territory that was taken from you by open, rapacious colonialists. Fascism is when ethnic Russians in Ukraine call for help against the literal US-backed nazis terrorizing them for a decade. If you were around for WW2, your smug, know-nothing supremacist ass would have been calling every allied victory fascist, because you don't know shit about shit.
What the fuck does this mean?? Yeah, you have to be voted into office to hold it. No shit? "Oh but the CCP-" shut up. The CPC has over nine million members, and is the largest of nine political parties in the People's Republic of China. It enjoys a 95% satisfaction rate among the people there so unless you want to argue that they're all just too stupid to understand how bad their lives actually are without the freedoms of crushing medical debt and gambling app, I suggest you look to Occam's Razor and entertain the notion that perhaps you have been propagandized to thoughtless repeat these vague and sinister-sounding canards, that you and I who live in the biggest anticommunist propaganda bubble history has ever seen, actually know very little for sure about the enemies of the rich pedophiles who own us.
And here we reach the inevitable conclusion of liberal analysis, the ultimate course of liberal praxis: do nothing, sit smugly in despair, make no practical choices, shit our pants and wait for fascism to kill us all. But hey, at least by doing nothing but symbolic art-protests at the gestapo as they kneel us before the trench, we can await the bullet with the knowledge that we were never tainted by the dirty work of actually building an alternative, unlike those filthy tankies.
Liberal epistemology is a joke, liberal ideology is a genocidal self-deluding joke, and the reason liberalism is being eaten alive from both ends by both communists and fascists is because it's not actually designed to understand power, only to hypocritically excuse it when it's exercised against humanity by a handful or western billionaires and condemn it when it's exercised against the billionaires by the organized masses of humanity. Free Palestine, long live the Chinese People's Revolution, Death to America.
REEEEvolution
in reply to RiverRock • • •95 million members actually, and around 110 mllion in its youth wing. So about one in seven chinese.
RiverRock
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •That's actually a stupid argument. There's no alternative party. Belonging to CPC helps with being promoted in public service.
(I'm not arguing with anything else, just questioning this argument)
RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •ThirdConsul
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And if any of them was legally allowed to take over the government from CCP, that would be true. However they are not, and in the CCPCC charter they are defined to be more like... subservient lobby groups?
RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •"There aren't any other parties"
"Yes there are"
"Uhhh well they don't count"
Anything to avoid admitting you're wrong, eh?
ThirdConsul
in reply to RiverRock • • •RiverRock
in reply to ThirdConsul • • •"Trust me bro I totally read the mandarin charters of eight other parties (who i was just claming dont exist) and they all say what I'm claiming, no I will not be posting anything to back up my assertion"
Lmao are you 12? This is giving such "liar kid in elementary school" energy
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in reply to RiverRock • • •davel
in reply to ILoveUnions • • •So both sides bad. Good media consumer; stay paralyzed by hopelessness.
The reason the rich & powerful put so much effort into shoving that bullshit down our throats is that the truth threatens their legitimacy. We’re not supposed to see that a better world is possible.
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in reply to Nexoflexo • • •Corridor8031
in reply to Johnny_Arson [they/them] • • •looks at sout china sea, looks at Uyghurs, looks at hong kong, looks at the opression
yes sane take 🤡
RiverRock
in reply to Corridor8031 • • •Carl [he/him]
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in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •Notice the flags? This is not about imperial China, it is about the PRC.
Or are you one of the weirdos who also thinks Russian Empire = USSR = Russian Federation?
Saapas
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •grahamja
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •Notice the war in 598? The one mislabeled as a war of defence? When the Sui dynasty invaded Korea?
Are you one of those weirdos that doesn't bother to look stuff up instead of reposting?
Oppopity
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in reply to Carl [he/him] • • •Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
in reply to jankforlife • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to Assian_Candor [comrade/them] • • •Overall it was a shitshow. Vietnam also ethnically cleansed its chinese minority and there was fighting at t he border because it was pretty much indefined. Furthermore, Vietnam ahd close ties to the USSR, with which China had recently broken. Thus China saw itself between the allied stated of Vietnam and USSR.
Fittingly the resulting border war also was a total shitshow. A few PLA divisions pushing into Vietnam, without artillery or air support. Vietnam defended with local militias as its army was in Cambodia. China occupied some border cities, but took severe losses, then it went home. The vietnamese militias were excellent fighters but lacked heavy arms, so all they could do is delay the chinese (which they did admirably). Both sides claimed victory and the relations between the two countries were in the gutter until a few years ago.
davel
in reply to REEEEvolution • • •FoundFootFootage78
in reply to jankforlife • • •South China Sea? Granted building a military base in another country's waters isn't technically an attack but ... come on.
Also Tibet. Whether or not it was a legitimate "state" it was definitely an "other nation".
RiverRock
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •1:Tibet is absolutely not an other nation, having been officially part of China for multiple dynasties before the Revolution.
2: I'm pretty sure the people there are happier with schools, hospitals and running water than as illiterate medieval slave-serfs to a despotic class of torturing, r*pist landlord-priests
Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
redsails.orgFoundFootFootage78
in reply to RiverRock • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •تحريرها كلها ممكن
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •BrainInABox
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •RiverRock
in reply to BrainInABox • • •REEEEvolution
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •The claims in the South China Sea overlap. Some islands are claimed by Brunai, Malasia and the Philipines, others are claimed by the PRC and the Philipines.
The military bases are less because of claims but because the US is sending its warships through this area all the time in a "nice trade routes you have here, would be sad if someone did something about them..."-move.
Tibet was a part of China, it was essentially a warlord territory. With the warlord being the Dalai Lhama. It did not consider itself "other nation", which is obvious from the fact that its regime did agree to join the PRC. Both sides came to an accord regarding the conditions, most importantly Tibet had to abolish slavery within a agreed uppon timeframe. The Lhama regime did not do so, thus peaceful unification was off the table and the PLA did the unifying.
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in reply to jankforlife • • •ThirdConsul
in reply to jankforlife • • •How to fuck has USA caused Russian Civil War?
By missing terror bombings in Italy I question your methodology. As in - bullshit. And don't even pretend it's because you're only listing "military operations", because you've added CIA operations in Brazil.
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You mean this one? Technically the USA were invited in like vampires by the current official ruler technically to fight rebellion. So "attacked" - no. Sold itself like a mercenary imperialistic scum in some deal to a despotic tsar - definitely.
Oh, and they were barely USian soldiers, it was mostly Europeans. And to be perfectly candid, everything about that intervention is considered to be British brainchild - look at the Korniłow and the support he got from Britain until he failed.
At least that's my take on it.
1918 military Operation
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in reply to RiverRock • • •I forgot you mentioned PRC specifically.
If we're talking about PRC then China fought against Vietnam in the Vietnam War, 3rd Indochina war, and Sini-Vietnam war
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