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RT by @MarietjeSchaake: To reclaim their own sovereignty in the digital world, democratic governments must empower public interest technology as a counterweight to private tech firms, argues @MarietjeSchaake.
foreignaffairs.com/brazil/big-

[2024-10-16 02:46 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: "This isn't a call for less technology. It's about more transparency and independent oversight into what these tech companies are deciding and how that impacts our lives, our human rights, and our civil liberties."

@MarietjeSchaake via @BBCHARDtalk ow.ly/XXnj50TL95n

[2024-10-15 22:00 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: “The decisions by companies are sort of running ahead of where states are, with all the consequences thereof”

Cyber policy expert Marietje Schaake says powerful Silicon Valley companies have created technologies “without any consideration of what it might mean for geopolitics”

[2024-10-15 10:23 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: This isn't fun to watch, but everyone needs to know what's at stake this election.

Trump boat parade flies Swastika flag, wears "Make America White Again" hats, and salutes, "Heil Trump! White Power!"

All Trump supporters might not be Nazis, but all Nazis are Trump supporters.

The video was taken during a Trump boat parade on Sunday in the Republican presidential candidate's home county of Palm Beach, Florida, not far from Mar-a-Lago.

If you were out on the water and saw that Nazi boat floating by, what would you do?

[2024-10-14 16:24 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: House Speaker Emerita @TeamPelosi tells me the leverage given to the Netanyahu government by the White House "has been used in a way that is most destructive."

[2024-10-14 19:54 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: The UN is the only truly global body with the legitimacy to convene the world’s governments and AI stakeholders, and the ability to guarantee any resulting agreements, say @MarietjeSchaake and @ianbremmer.

📄 Read their argument in full in @ProSyn. ↘️ ow.ly/JJhj50TK89w

[2024-10-14 17:30 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: A proper hard talk on ⁦@BBCHARDtalk⁩ listen here and read The Tech Coup for a complete picture of the many ways in which the outsize power of tech companies hurts democracy and what we can do to course correct ↘️ podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/

[2024-10-14 10:07 UTC]

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[2024-10-14 11:27 UTC]

👀 Starmer going full Tory on antitrust after appointing Microsofter to chair Industry Strategy Advisory Council ↘️

[2024-10-14 11:14 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Within the digital world, tech companies and their executives are increasingly in charge, writes @MarietjeSchaake. “If democracy is to survive, leaders must fight this coup head on.”
foreignaffairs.com/brazil/big-

[2024-10-13 23:53 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: In haar boek De tech coup analyseert @MarietjeSchaake de vele manieren waarop bedrijven beslissingen nemen die voorheen uitsluitend aan overheden waren voorbehouden. Dat is een gevaarlijke ontwikkeling, vindt Schaake.
binnenlandsbestuur.nl/digitaal

[2024-10-14 07:16 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: In The Tech Coup, @MarietjeSchaake offers a behind-the-scenes account of how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives & our governments—& a clear-eyed view of how democracies can build a better future.

Out now. Read a free sample: hubs.ly/Q02QYsPW0

[2024-10-13 16:37 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: When tech companies take on functions normally assumed by the state, the public loses the ability to hold them accountable or exercise real agency, warns @stanfordcyber’s @MarietjeSchaake in a new PS Say More. This poses a grave threat to democracy. bit.ly/4h0Pnsr

[2024-10-13 17:00 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: If people live in northern Gaza (they do) and they're not allowed to leave (they aren't) and a certain military is blocking them from receiving food (it is), then starvation is being used as a weapon of war. A crime under every modern form of international humanitarian law.

[2024-10-12 13:48 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: spending yom kippur in brooklyn with hundreds of jews who reject the notion that jewish safety must come at the expense of palestinians, for our liberation is intertwined

[2024-10-12 21:39 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Worth listening to The Tech Coup.

Just left a review:

[2024-10-13 03:13 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: With attention gravitating towards the invasion of (and the mass forcible transfer taking place south of the Awali River), the forcible transfer of Palestinians out of northern is taking place at an unprecedented rate, in preparation for the permanent acquisition of occupied territory. A grave breach of international law is underway with little or no attention.

[2024-10-12 13:24 UTC]

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