Wietze Brandsma @wabrandsma@mastodon.social

China Can Lock Up A Million Muslims In Xinjiang At Once - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-camps-prisons-xinjiang-muslims-size great analysis here by @BuzzFeedNews #uyghurgenocide

Advies Piratenpartij aan informateur: Versterk de economie door monopolies te bestrijden.

De stikstofcrisis, de macht van grote tech-bedrijven, en onzekere banen, zijn in de kern allemaal gevolgen van teveel marktmacht van grote bedrijven. #antitrust #monopoly #BigTech

https://piratenpartij.nl/advies-aan-informateur-versterkt-de-economie-door-monopolies-te-bestrijden/

De advocaat-generaal van het Europese Hof van Justitie waarschuwt uitdrukkelijk tegen ‘overblokkering’, door algoritmes die alles waar zij inbreuk op auteursrechten in herkennen meteen verwijderen of blokkeren. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/07/15/een-kleine-zege-voor-humor-op-het-web-a4051168
#UploadFilter #Auteursrecht #UploadFilters #Copyright

Remote voting transparency is here! This week, Committee votes take place according to new rules for the first time. All remote votes by Members of the European Parliament are now taken by roll call. I'm glad to see the outcome of this initiative of mine! https://european-pirateparty.eu/remote-voting-in-committees-will-be-transparent/

"Let me remind that human rights are universal. We must defend them equally, not cherry-pick which ones we defend and which ones we don't."

Freedom of speech has been violated by the Hungarian government. I ask the Commission to act. https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/videos/watch/3bf620a4-5a0d-4fb6-99a8-612ea1a31413

According to analysis of Czech Elves group, Czech #Pirate Party followed by European Union become main target of fake news servers during the ongoing election campaign for Czech parliament.

The #COVID19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of collaborative innovation. Sharing research data and findings is beneficial to research and innovation. However, it has also revealed the downsides of so-called Intellectual Property Rights. More in my speech in the IMCO committee. https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/videos/watch/4a562734-39e4-4944-a02c-1fd6d1294f4c

Toothpicks are made of dried birch wood when you break the toothpicks, you stretch and compress the wood fibers inside them. When you put drops of water in the middle of the closed star formation, the dry wood fibers in each broken toothpick absorb some of it. This causes the fibers to swell and then expand As the wood absorbs the water, each individual toothpick tries to straighten itself as the soaked fibers expand. This straightening action causes the toothpick ends to push against each other

Gisteren heeft het Europees Parlement de verordening over #chatcontrol aangenomen: een trieste dag voor iedereen die vertrouwt op vrije en vertrouwelijke communicatie en advies, waaronder slachtoffers van misbruik en journalistieke bronnen. #surveillance

Zo hebben de fracties in het Parlement gestemd:

Hungary’s request for grants under the EU's recovery fund won't be endorsed by the EU! European officials told @PoliticoEurope@twitter.com that the Hungarian plan fails to satisfy two of the assessment criteria related to anti-corruption measures.
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-turns-down-hungarys-recovery-plan/