We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…

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In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants

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Ketamine addict and South African immigrant #ElonMuskovich pissed at the EU imposing a fine against Twitter Elon Musk called for the dissolution of the European Union. "The EU needs to be eliminated, and sovereignty should be returned to individual countries so that governments

The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged... I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less

So we had a full week of fake outrage about Europe “crushing free speech”, all of it fake… and now the US drops the real bomb: five years of your data on the table. Absolute clown show. All the pseudo-influencers who were screaming yesterday? Dead silent. This app is comedy

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NEW: Under UK Legislation anyone developing end-to-end encryption is now labelled as a “hostile actor”

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Wow.😳 If you think "being sanctioned" just means "can't enter the US," you're missing the point. It means financial exile. In practice: • No services from US persons or companies • No Visa / Mastercard / Amex • No Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, OpenAI etc. • Banks -

This is a huge escalation. For the first time ever the US started sanctioning former senior EU officials, namely former European Commissioner Thierry Breton. If anyone doubted there was a Euro-US split going on, this is yet another hostile action by the US that makes it loud and

There is too much resignation these days among foreign policy elites about the end of the “liberal international order” or “rules-based order” or “transatlantic partnership “. One man is driving all of this. That’s it. There’s no mass movement supporting an invasion of Greenland

David Hoffman I'll do the ill-advised thing and try to explain my own thought process and constraints (and possibly unadmitted cowardice) that guide when I do and don't speak on these kinds of political topics - and further down just say what some of my direct opinions are. It's 2026, the

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