#eucommission — Public Fediverse posts

Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…

So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that ­– cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).

Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.

That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)

The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)

So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):

https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t

Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:

> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)

Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.

These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.

🤡🤡🤡

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.

> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³

But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.

Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?

And if so, why can’t they even get that right?

Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.

Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.

So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?

¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.

² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2

³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)

⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission

Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…

So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that ­– cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).

Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.

That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)

The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)

So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):

https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t

Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:

> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)

Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.

These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.

🤡🤡🤡

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.

> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³

But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.

Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?

And if so, why can’t they even get that right?

Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.

Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.

So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?

¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.

² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2

³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)

⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission

Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…

So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that ­– cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).

Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.

That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)

The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)

So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):

https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t

Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:

> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)

Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.

These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.

🤡🤡🤡

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.

> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³

But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.

Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?

And if so, why can’t they even get that right?

Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.

Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.

So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?

¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.

² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2

³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)

⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission

Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…

So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that ­– cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).

Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.

That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)

The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)

So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):

https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t

Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:

> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)

Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.

These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.

🤡🤡🤡

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.

> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³

But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.

Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?

And if so, why can’t they even get that right?

Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.

Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.

So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?

¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.

² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2

³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)

⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission

Want an update on the Weekend at Bernie’s clown show that is W Social? No? Me neither, but here we are…

So before we start, let’s recount the whole dystopian raison d’être of these Davosian clowns: to be a EU®opean “alternative to X” that ­– cue the 1984 theme tune – verifies your identity to ensure that only “real people” are on it (real is what your government says it is).

Now, let’s fast forward to last week, when TikTok set up an account on W Social.

That’s nice, isn’t it? One surveillance capitalist lending their support to another? Kumbaya and all that. The only problem? (spoiler alert), it wasn’t TikTok. (Shocking, I know.)

The account, Identity Verified™ by EU X – sorry, W Social, was a spam account and immediately labelled as such by BlueSky moderators. (Don’t you love a “decentralised” system where a post on an EU server, accessed from another EU server, is moderated by our benevolent Big Brother in Trumpland, by the way? I know it just warms the cockles of my heart. So much sovereignty! But I digress…)

So @_elena calls them out (someone has to while @EUCommission is busy preparing for their honeymoon after expressing their undying devotion to W Social recently on every social platform¹):

https://mu.social/profile/elenarossini.com/post/3mqob7shxks2t

Anna Zeiter – W CEO, Stanford’s own, and ex-eBay executive (such sovereignty) – replies with this absolute zinger:

> “We are just verifying if some [sic] is a human and at least 18 years old. Users are then free to choose their own user name. This (human) user apparently chose the name TikTok.“ (https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mqoepm7m2k2z)

Read that as many times as you like until it really sinks in.

These incompetent clowns (dangerous competent clowns but incompetent clowns nevertheless) make people go through a ridiculous 13-step identity verification stage² and then… umm… you get to choose whatever identity you want.

🤡🤡🤡

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they’re incompetent. It would be worse if they were competent, given they’re a closed-source venture-capital-funded startup determined to prove your identity.

> “Yes we have a business model, it’s not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money.” – Anna Zeiter³

But, what I want to know is this: Why has @EUCommission embraced a proprietary, closed-source, corporate ghost town with 14,300 accounts, 90% of which have not posted even once (in other words, with only 1,259 accounts that have ever posted)⁴ when there is a thriving non-corporate fediverse with millions of active people on it.

Could it have anything to do with identity verification, surveillance, and control?

And if so, why can’t they even get that right?

Looking forward to seeing how long @EUCommission can drag the corpse of W Social around before people realise it’s dead.

Oh, and how does this make the whole “European alternatives” thing look? Not good. Not because there aren’t excellent European alternatives but because the folks at the commission are either too clueless or too corrupt to recognise and support them.

So, yeah, how’s your Monday going?

¹ e.g., https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108, etc.

² https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01KVD55YBYVM3B46ACQTECDMT2

³ https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ (from the YouTube video that they since deleted. Nice transparency there, clowns.)

⁴ Run this script in Node 18+ to reproduce the numbers from their PDS yourself: https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/wsocial-pds-stats.js Also see https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ and https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/

#WSocial #EU #sovereignty #socialMedia #socialNetworking #mastodon #fediverse #activityPub #ATProto #startups #EUCommission

Carbon Gap: The ETS Review Is A Landmark Opportunity To Kickstart CDR In EU

As the EU prepares to publish a proposed review of its Emissions Trading System (ETS), Carbon Gap underlines…
#Europe #EU #CarbonGap #carbonremovals #compliancecarbonmarkets #EUCDR #EUCommission #EUETS #EuropeanUnion
https://www.europesays.com/europe/95749/

The EU Commission announced new exemptions yesterday to its Batteries Regulation, which will soon require that portable batteries in products sold in the EU be removable and user-replaceable https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/338958/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-smartwatches-and-fitness-trackers #wearables #eucommission #technology

The EU Commission announced new exemptions yesterday to its Batteries Regulation, which will soon require that portable batteries in products sold in the EU be removable and user-replaceable https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/338958/eu-wont-require-user-replaceable-batteries-for-smartwatches-and-fitness-trackers #wearables #eucommission #technology

🇪🇺 On 7 July 2026, the #EUCommission presented the #ActionPlan on #Cybersecurity and #AI, aiming to supporting the use of responsible AI and cybersecurity resilience.

Here's a quick overview.

#Quantidal

🇪🇺 On 7 July 2026, the #EUCommission presented the #ActionPlan on #Cybersecurity and #AI, aiming to supporting the use of responsible AI and cybersecurity resilience.

Here's a quick overview.

#Quantidal

EU Clears Path for New Chat Monitoring

The European Parliament has paved the way for a new temporary exemption from European data protection rules. This…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanParliament #childsexualabuse #EUCommission #memberstates #RobertaMetsola #TheParliament
https://www.europesays.com/europe/92982/

Children’s social media curbs planned across EU: European Commission president

The European Union will move to limit young children’saccess to social media across the 27-member bloc, European Commission…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission ##AgeRestrictions ##ChildrensOnlineSafety ##DigitalWellbeing ##EUChildProtection ##EUCommission ##OnlineDangers ##ProtectOurKids ##SocialMediaBan #ChildSafetyOnline #SocialMediaRegulation
https://www.europesays.com/europe/92752/

European Commission Chooses to Keep EU Users Locked Up Behind Big Tech’s Gates | Electronic Frontier Foundation

#eucommission #datasovereignty #privacy #bigtech #BoycottBigTech #europe #eu

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/european-commission-chooses-keep-eu-users-locked-behind-big-techs-gates

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292

#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292

#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292

#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292

#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292

#HackerNews #EUCommission #addictiveDesign #Instagram #Facebook #DSA #DigitalRegulation

@normalniklas Finns hos en EU-kommission nära dig 🙂 🇪🇺✌️

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116794461933014480
#eucommission #aislop

@normalniklas Finns hos en EU-kommission nära dig 🙂 🇪🇺✌️

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116794461933014480
#eucommission #aislop

You reap what you sow….

Maybe not today, but eventually the very people whose discretion and reliability you need 100% will turn against you.

Instead of symbolically keeping the bottom seven floors running and earning 200% commitment in return, the people at the top thought: better to have 18 degrees today.

#EUCommission #airco #Berlaymont

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/

You reap what you sow….

Maybe not today, but eventually the very people whose discretion and reliability you need 100% will turn against you.

Instead of symbolically keeping the bottom seven floors running and earning 200% commitment in return, the people at the top thought: better to have 18 degrees today.

#EUCommission #airco #Berlaymont

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/

The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/26/the-eu-wants-to-grow-homegrown-tech-its-courts-keep-making-that-impossible/

The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/26/the-eu-wants-to-grow-homegrown-tech-its-courts-keep-making-that-impossible/

Brussels Wants To Close the Door on Military-Age Ukrainians

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/brussels-wants-to-close-the-door-on-military-age-ukrainians/

https://www.europesays.com/people/129729/ EU investigates secret group chat between Zelensky and European leaders that ‘discussed how to deal with Trump’ #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #EUCommission #EuropeanLeaders #FriedrichMerz #GiorgiaMeloni #GroupChats #KeirStarmer #TeresaAnjinho #TheCommission #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VolodymyrZelensky

“Extending this cooperation to eastern-based armed groups with records of committing war #crimes and other #abuses with impunity shows a shocking disregard, not only for international #law, but also for #human life and #dignity.”
#EU #EUCommission
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/libya-eu-rival-authorities-intensify-xenophobic-and-racist-crackdown-on-refugees-and-migrants-in-libya-as-eu-seeks-to-deepen-ties/

“Extending this cooperation to eastern-based armed groups with records of committing war #crimes and other #abuses with impunity shows a shocking disregard, not only for international #law, but also for #human life and #dignity.”
#EU #EUCommission
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/06/libya-eu-rival-authorities-intensify-xenophobic-and-racist-crackdown-on-refugees-and-migrants-in-libya-as-eu-seeks-to-deepen-ties/

Stop Killing Games Legislation Rejected By EU

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/stop-killing-games-legislation-rejected-by-eu/

Stop Killing Games Legislation Rejected By EU

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/22/stop-killing-games-legislation-rejected-by-eu/

“The #EUCommission is currently engaged in an unprecedented rollback of digital, social, and environmental rules, which often closely mirror industry #lobbying demands. Now it seems that #corporate interests don't just have a seat at the table — they have an office in the Berlaymont.”
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eus-new-ai-envoy-tech-ceo-extraordinary-conflicts-interest

Spain makes major move at Gibraltar border for first time in 200 years | World | News

For the first time in over 300 years, there are no border checkpoints between Spain and Gibraltar as…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #Brexitdeal #BrexitNews #buildingsdismantled #cross-borderworkers #eucommission #externalborder #Gibraltar #Gibraltarsovereignty #landborderabolished #movefreely #passportchecks #post-brexitagreement #Schengenarea #Spain #UnitedKingdom #YvetteCooper
https://www.europesays.com/britain/67718/

https://www.europesays.com/britain/67718/ Spain makes major move at Gibraltar border for first time in 200 years | World | News #BrexitDeal #BrexitNews #BuildingsDismantled #CrossBorderWorkers #EuCommission #ExternalBorder #Gibraltar #GibraltarSovereignty #LandBorderAbolished #MoveFreely #PassportChecks #PostBrexitAgreement #SchengenArea #Spain #UK #UnitedKingdom #YvetteCooper

@kasra_mp I've seen one-man hobbyist pre-LLM era side projects more impressive.

#EUCommission do better please. Stop reinventing the wheel.

@kasra_mp I've seen one-man hobbyist pre-LLM era side projects more impressive.

#EUCommission do better please. Stop reinventing the wheel.

@BjornW @Mastodon Well, at least someone in EU is putting real money in open source, while #eucommission is wasting time and efforts in the opinable W Social...

@BjornW @Mastodon Well, at least someone in EU is putting real money in open source, while #eucommission is wasting time and efforts in the opinable W Social...

#wsocial #eucommission non-ironically Ursula von der Leyen promoting "european" twitter/x is literally turning her into a Viktor Orban sympathizer.

she's becoming who she vowed to fight these past years.

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280029168108

X but make it W.

#EuropeWashing #WSocial #EUCommission #BigTech #VC #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280029168108

X but make it W.

#EuropeWashing #WSocial #EUCommission #BigTech #VC #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116764928310205984

You know what they call someone who sits at the same table as a fascist? A fascist.

“…Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia…”

CC @EUCommission Hey folks, how was Peter Thiel’s fascist party? Did Kaja enjoy it? Did she learn anything she can bring back to the EU?

#fascism #PeterThiel #KajaKallas #EUCommission #Palantir #humanRights #democracy

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116764928310205984

You know what they call someone who sits at the same table as a fascist? A fascist.

“…Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia…”

CC @EUCommission Hey folks, how was Peter Thiel’s fascist party? Did Kaja enjoy it? Did she learn anything she can bring back to the EU?

#fascism #PeterThiel #KajaKallas #EUCommission #Palantir #humanRights #democracy

https://www.europesays.com/dk/109506/ Summit week: Brussels caught between resilience and structural limits • Table.Briefings #batteries #Belgium #BMW #Brussels #CarIndustry #EUCommission #EuropeanParliament #Trade #VW #ZVEI

https://www.europesays.com/be/21805/ Summit week: Brussels caught between resilience and structural limits • Table.Briefings #Batteries #BMW #Brussels #CarIndustry #EUCommission #EuropeanParliament #Trade #VW #ZVEI

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116760263030804683

🇪🇺 EU Commission's response on Stop Killing Games

The @EUCommission has "answered" to the @StopKillingGames European Citizen's Initiative. And wow, it's just a bunch of nothing!

Their response : https://link.europa.eu/r3XhyM

- No laws are going to be added
- They will be "Communicating with the industry", in order to initiate a "Code of conduct" for killing games. Since it's not a law it's not legally binding
- They want to "raise awareness" when already 1 million people signed this, but being aware of the problem won't fix it
- They claim they can't add a law because of the rightholders. The initiative only asked for games already sold to keep working, if the rights expire they can just stop selling it!

And yet, on their social media, they post a "Game not over" image...

I mean, it's better than nothing, but not by much!

The next hope is to put this in the #digitalfairnessact , hopefully it goes through!

@gaming
#europe #stopkillinggames #eucommission

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116760263030804683

🇪🇺 EU Commission's response on Stop Killing Games

The @EUCommission has "answered" to the @StopKillingGames European Citizen's Initiative. And wow, it's just a bunch of nothing!

Their response : https://link.europa.eu/r3XhyM

- No laws are going to be added
- They will be "Communicating with the industry", in order to initiate a "Code of conduct" for killing games. Since it's not a law it's not legally binding
- They want to "raise awareness" when already 1 million people signed this, but being aware of the problem won't fix it
- They claim they can't add a law because of the rightholders. The initiative only asked for games already sold to keep working, if the rights expire they can just stop selling it!

And yet, on their social media, they post a "Game not over" image...

I mean, it's better than nothing, but not by much!

The next hope is to put this in the #digitalfairnessact , hopefully it goes through!

@gaming
#europe #stopkillinggames #eucommission

Every journo around the European establishment was condemning the "blockade" of Orban or someone else who disagreed with the proposals around the NATO-Russian war in Ukraine.
Now, no commentary. They present it just as a question of Kallas. The axis of nazism in the center of the European establishment, who promotes and protects the international terrorist entity, deserves no comments from the european journalists.
This is Europe: a fucking advocacy for war and fascism. https://masto.ai/@euractiv/116760087186373075

#EUPolicy #eufascism #IsraelTerroristState #TerrorismPromoters #eucommission #eucomplicity

Every journo around the European establishment was condemning the "blockade" of Orban or someone else who disagreed with the proposals around the NATO-Russian war in Ukraine.
Now, no commentary. They present it just as a question of Kallas. The axis of nazism in the center of the European establishment, who promotes and protects the international terrorist entity, deserves no comments from the european journalists.
This is Europe: a fucking advocacy for war and fascism. https://masto.ai/@euractiv/116760087186373075

#EUPolicy #eufascism #IsraelTerroristState #TerrorismPromoters #eucommission #eucomplicity

@EUCommission Great to see this push for transparency extend to everyday food products. The same principle is reshaping the nutraceutical and supplement space too — EFSA's health claims framework has already rejected the majority of botanical health claims for lack of clinical substantiation, and the direction is unmistakable: claims need evidence, not just plausibility. #Transparency #EUCommission #Nutraceuticals #FoodLabelling #ClinicalEvidence

@EUCommission Great to see this push for transparency extend to everyday food products. The same principle is reshaping the nutraceutical and supplement space too — EFSA's health claims framework has already rejected the majority of botanical health claims for lack of clinical substantiation, and the direction is unmistakable: claims need evidence, not just plausibility. #Transparency #EUCommission #Nutraceuticals #FoodLabelling #ClinicalEvidence