According to a confidential memo from the Dutch Defense attaché in Tel Aviv, the Israeli army "intends to deliberately cause massive destruction to infrastructure and civilian centers" in Gaza. This strategy explains the "high number of deaths" among the civilian population. 🧵

Tegen Wilders, een haatprediker die groepen tegenover elkaar zet, zeggen ze je bent milder geworden. Tegen een politicus die het gevaar durft te benoemen zeggen ze je bent boos. Misschien is het probleem dat de media zich niet boos genoeg maakt over racisme en onrecht in dit land

Interested in researcher data access under the Digital Services Act? I read and summarised the consultation responses, so you don't need to. Out now: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/dig…

🚨Registrations are NOW OPEN for the "The #DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024" jointly organised by The DSA Observatory IViR DTDM_UvA and Digital Legal Lab - happening at the Amsterdam Law School on 15-16 February 2024! Full programme and registration: dsa-observatory.eu/the-dsa-and-pl…

Israel does not have the right to self defense against territory that it occupies. It does not have the right to maintain an apartheid regime to protect Jewish supremacy. It does not have the right to commit genocide to expand its territorial takings & maintain racial purity.

announcement: i'll be living in amsterdam, visiting IViR for february and march — nederlanders please hit me up for thinking, talking, and doing!

The big day has arrived! ✨To mark #DSA becoming fully applicable tomorrow, the The DSA Observatory IViR has just opened its 2-day conference #DSAconference2024 Amsterdam Law School. A stellar programme for what promises to be an incredibly exciting event. dsa-observatory.eu/wp-content/upl…

Apply to our IViR The DSA Observatory "European Platform Regulation" summer course (Amsterdam, 1-5 July 2024). All info: ivir.nl/courses/epr/ Confirmed faculty include: Joris van Hoboken Martin Husovec Daphne Keller Remy Chavannes Paddy Leerssen Irene Roche Laguna, EC Benoit Loutrel @rachel_grfn &

📣 VIDEOS from the February IViR The DSA Observatory "#DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024" - Main Conference programme (day 2) are now available on our website! Enjoy the inspiring & thought-provoking sessions: 👉 dsa-observatory.eu/the-dsa-and-pl…

Let's be clear. As the ICJ orders Israel to stop its offensive in Rafah, Israel intensifies its attacks on it. The news I am receiving from the people trapped therein are terrifying. Be sure: Israel will not stop this madness until WE make it stop. Member states must impose

🎉We are pleased to announce that Joris van Hoboken has been appointed, per 1 March 2024, as a full professor at IViR, to the chair ‘Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure’. ivir.nl/joris-van-hobo…

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study commits to: - refuse funding from Israel; - not participate in activities organized or sponsored by Israel; - not invite official representatives of Israel to its events or venues. loom.ly/b9s0sws

#Infographic| Based on 100 testimonies of released Palestinian detainees from #Gaza, Euro-Med Monitor documents 42 forms of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment in Israeli prisons and detention centers. Full report⤵ euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342

Very clear statement by Signal's @mer_edith exposing the cynical game of the Belgian presidency to keep rebranding chatcontrol/client side scanning as "upload moderation with consent", claiming that this would not break end-to-end encryption. 1/3

The reporting here is worse than a joke.

My biggest project to date just landed in Berlin 🫣🤖 After many years of research, writing, and revision, I'm so excited to hear what you all think about 'The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation.' A short 🧵of summary and thanks:

2 months until my book on the Digital Services Act is finally out; pre-orders are now possible from Amazon or OUP; for links, the table of contents, and the early reviews by Joris van Hoboken, Daphne Keller & Barbora Bukovská, see husovec.eu/book/