Tag politics

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2025-05-02

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Germany: Intelligence agency labels AfD party as 'extremist' – DW – 05/02/2025

www.dw.com/en/germany-intelligence-agency-labels-afd-party-as-extremist/a-72413346

The agency cited a "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation. The label gives authorities more power to surveil the far-right party.

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Ending hunger and hardship could benefit the UK economy and public finances by over £75 billion each year | Trussell

www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-research/news/ending-hunger-and-hardship-could-benefit-the-uk-economy-and-public-finances

Trussell is calling on the UK government to take action to alleviate pressure on our already stretched public services and lift millions of people out of hunger and hardship.

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UK could save billions by ending hunger – not slashing benefits

www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/end-hunger-save-public-money-poverty-trussell

Researchers at Trussell have found that the UK government could save billions if it increased universal credit to help tackle hunger.

Trussell article on their report

2025-04-16

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This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like

news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like
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Substack Has a Nazi Problem

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

from 2023-11-28

2025-04-10

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Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’

www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyen
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CCC | Incompatibility of membership

www.ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung-des-ccc

CCC's statement against racism and fascism.

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CCC modernizes its incompatibility of membership

www.ccc.de/en/updates/2025/ccc-aktualisiert-unvereinbarkeitserklaerung

2025-04-09

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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’