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  • Legislate responsibility for moderation for corporations operating in Germany … and this shit is gonna drop off a cliff

    Not that I would generally oppose higher enforceable accountability for social media platforms, but how would ‘this shit gonna drop off a cliff’ as Russia is

    • hacking government ministries, parliaments, and defense institutions
    • targeting critical infrastructure such as energy grids, transport systems and air traffic control
    • orchestrating acts of sabotage against railways, cables, pipelines, or military logistics
    • surveilling or targeting of infrastructure linked to Ukraine support
    • encouraging or facilitating irregular migration toward EU border

    Even the points related to social media would not help, as Russia would certainly continue its influence campaigns.

    It must be clearly said that the main problem here is Russia and its ‘decisive enabler,’ China.

































  • “It is totally clear that this piece of legislation will not just go through without any amendments,” MEP Bernd Lange, the Parliament’s lead negotiator, told Euractiv on Friday.

    We’ll see how this ends. Tariffs on US farm products are not a so important as they are around 1% on average, this is next to nothing. Industrial good imports are more pressing issues, although the much bigger problem often here is the flood of cheap imports from China (e.g., steel) rather than imports from the the U.S.

    The parliament will have the final say, and its lead negotiator appears to have a realistic stance imho.