We are at the end of the automobile era. The automobile has been a core part of the past 70 years, but its significance to the economy and to transportation is waning.

So we are both describing social democracy

There needs to be due process. We can’t ban a website because 10k people said it has disinformation. The DSA is the process for combatting disinformation on major platforms, and we should follow it. Twitter is already being sued under the DSA, and they will be banned in the next few months if they do not fulfill their obligations to fight disinformation.

change.org isn’t going to do much, and the EU already has an ongoing lawsuit with Twitter regarding its disinformation promotion.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6709

It could be argued that the EU prosecutors should speed things up, though.

None of that is relevant to the idea of affordable housing for college students because 18 year olds going to college haven’t had the chance to start working yet.

I don’t think I was particularly lazy as a student just because I got free college and $1k a month student loans from the Swedish welfare state, and a free apartment from my parents, all without working a single hour for pay.

I remember some of my strongest drivers in college were my social life, the opportunity to enter an exchange program, passing 75% of my classes to keep my student loans, and my personal interest in the things I studied. So some monetary/quasi-monetary, but also many social. And none of them based on wage labor.

Also, while social democracy like what I’ve described doesn’t reject your ideology, there are also people who work for other reasons besides money, and there are more forms of unpaid work than there are for paid work.

Why shouldn’t everyone have access to housing, food, education, tutoring, and transportation like those people who inherit from their parents?

The social impact of engaged parents can’t be missed, but there’s no reason why there should be a material aspect.

The irony of saying that you’re against the corrupt establishment and then going out and saying you’re a big supporter of Donald Trump, the most corrupt, most established politician of the 2020’s.

Well, the biggest supporters of Ukraine like the nordics, baltics, and Poland don’t see Russia as far way, but yes, that’s the difficulty.

It’s surprising that even leftist parties like Sahra Wagenknecht have become open supporters of Russian fascism in Europe.

Yup, Immigration and racism have always been a huge debate in Europe.

Some Swedish wikipedia articles i recently found about pre-ww2 immigration and refugee debates:

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mosaisk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/J-passen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Europe has never been ethnically homogenous.

I think its probably critical that political parties focus on defending against russian agression, even above economic issues or immigration issues. Might be time for unity governments if things start to get bad with the US and Russian fronts.

1 is impossible due to Europe’s conviction. 2 is inevitable.

I think 5 has some elements of truth, but a full on collapse would probably be the end of Putin. More minor economic problems would probably lead to koreafication around the current front line.

100% if you fine them 6% of their global revenue for refusing safety recommendations by the EU and independent auditors

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-enforcement

There’s a reason why Elon Musk is running to Trump for help after the EU started suing him for breaking this law.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-x-tech-social-media-politics-elections-eu/

If Trump can’t dodge EU disinformation laws, no one can.

Tweak algorithms to limit reach of new accounts, don’t allow russians to buy ads or blue checkmarks, have a team of moderators that moderate based on known bad images, known bad IP addresses, known bad account creation patterns. If non-profit researchers are able to uncover botnets, there’s no reason why billion dollar companies can’t. It’s a cat and mouse game, but it’s not acceptable for these companies to put in 0 effort. These companies are better funded than the Internet Research Agency.

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

Technology is not the solution to a social problem. Big tech companies have an obligation to make it more difficult for state actors and extremists from multiplying obviously false claims about elections and protected minorities.

The EU has already implemented a similar law making disinformation illegal.

Some platforms are also obliged to prevent the dissemination of harmful data, which does not necessarily have to be illegal content under European Union law or the national laws of European Union member states. This is, in particular, the case of online intermediaries that have obtained the status of Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) or Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) because they have an average number of monthly active users in the Union of at least 45 million and have therefore been qualified as such by the European Commission.

In the light of the DSA regulations, disinformation may potentially constitute primarily two systemic risks defined in the provisions of the Digital Services Act:
a) the risk relates to an actual or foreseeable negative impact on democratic processes, civic discourse and electoral processes, as well as on public security (recital 82),
b) the risk relates to an actual or foreseeable negative effect on the protection of public health, minors and serious negative consequences to a person’s physical and mental well-being, or on gender-based violence. Such risks may also stem from coordinated disinformation campaigns related to public health, or from online interface design that may stimulate behavioural addictions of recipients of the service (recital 83).
In turn, according to Article 37 of the DSA, providers of very large online platforms and very large online search engines at their own expense are obliged to undergo independent audits at least once a year to assess their compliance with the obligations set out, inter alia, in point 7 above.

https://chambers.com/articles/the-digital-services-act-dsa-and-combating-disinformation-10-key-takeaways

Good analysis, I agree 100%.

I didn’t know that Italians and french had the same language, traditions and skin color. I had assumed that there had been riots in the streets when Italy joined the ECSC in 1951.

You’re totally right, but I hate the whole “Sweden/Europe was ethnically homogeneous” line that centrists say.

In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I’m not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won’t let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.

Don’t get me started on Skype for Business. It’s still around.

bad summary

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