#open-democracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #open-democracy, aggregated by home.social.
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#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones
Matthew Linares
20 February 2026Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]
" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."
Read more:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/
#AISucks #AI #DataMining #Internet #Websites #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech #TechBros -
Yikes! It's worse than I thought! TY for posting this very informative article, @openDemocracy !
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ai-chatbots-scraper-bots-chatgpt-website-offline-change-internet/
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#OpenDemocracy article: The Great #MinistryOfDefenceToPalantirPipeline
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With UK politics in flux, Your Party may well surprise you yet
Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one
#OpenDemocracy
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Algunos científicos y activistas piden frenar esta financiación y actuar como se hizo con la industria tabaquera Una investigación de #openDemocracy e #InvestigateEurope que #infoLibre publica en exclusiva en España www.infolibre.es/internaciona...
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// MANOUCHEHR SHAMSRIZI
Manouchehr Shamsrizi – Fellow at DGAP & Co-Founder of gamelab.berlin – explores how digital tools like Linux & Signal can strengthen democracy. 🧠💻
At Waterkant 2025, he shares why open tech and “concrete utopias” are key to shaping resilient, participatory democracies. 👥
Tickets: https://www.waterkant.sh/festival?utm_source=mastodon&utm_id=WK25
#waterkant25 #futuresofdemocracy #techforgood #opendemocracy #shapingfutures
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The LGB Alliance "victory" in Supreme Court is another Tufton Street success in creating conflict on road to intolerance & UK fascism
We can win by smart, happy, humourous behaviour: tolerant cohesion looking after all
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgb-alliance-55-tufton-street-think-tanks/
#trans
#tuftonstreet
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I'm currently listening to:
𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲
A story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy.While it was interesting and, I suppose, inciteful to start with, I've started to get bored shitless with it. I'm not sure if it's the narrator's Irish accent or the fact that the author sees conspiracies at every turn of the page, but it's becoming very dull.
#Opendemocracy gets a few mentions. I've still got 4hrs 42mins to go. #Groan
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Report critical of human rights
Report published by Policy Exchange claiming the HRA has curtailed the rights of Parliament
November 2024
Slightly amended 13 November
An article appeared in the Daily Mail on 11 November under the headline ‘Rights Act ‘curtailed power of Parliament ”. It said ’eminent lawyers have compiled a dossier of 25 cases where the Human Rights Act was applied and have shown how its use removed power from Parliament’. It continued that ‘power once held in Westminster is increasingly being transferred to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg’ and quotes the example of the government’s wish to deport ‘illegal’ immigrants to Rwanda which was frustrated at the last minute by the Court.
The Mail did not tell its readers however, who produced this report and a reference does not appear in the online version either. It was in fact written by the Policy Exchange and published on 11th. The organisation promotes itself ‘as an educational charity [and] our mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy‘.
The problem is that the Exchange is an opaque organisation and does not reveal who funds it, does not reveal funding on its website nor tells us the amounts given by funders. Open Democracy is very critical about the secretiveness of this organisation, its ‘dark money’ and its influence in government both with the Conservatives and now, it alleges, Labour.
It was revealed by Rishi Sunak who admitted that Policy Exchange received funding from US oil giant ExxonMobil who helped the government write its draconian anti-protest laws. It serves as confirmation by the then prime minister of Open Democracy’s revelations that last year’s controversial policing bill, which became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act, may have originated in a briefing from Policy Exchange. The organisation has form therefore in being hostile to rights and protests. It is curious that the Daily Mail, in the vanguard in promoting parliamentary sovereignty and a powerful force in the Brexit debate, failed to mention the influence of American money believed to be behind several of this and other think tanks. Quite where is this ‘sovereignty’ they are keen on?
The limited information provided to Daily Mail readers meant they are unaware of who funds these reports or the motives of the assumed funders (if indeed ExxonMobil are one of the funders). The report’s arguments are thin and present the reader with the notion that human rights were amply protected by our common law and there is no need for this ‘foreign’ court. Were that so and the victims of Hillsborough for example might disagree having been let down by the courts, the police and elements of the media in their search for justice. They finally achieved justice partly with the aid of the Human Rights Act so despised by the Mail. There are many victims of injustice who have found our institutions to be less than favourable to their interests – the Post Office scandal anyone?
#HumanRights_ #DailyMail #DarkMoney #OpenDemocracy #PolicyExchange
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It seems Barcelona is preparing me for going home! Epic thunder storms in the middle of the night and a misty, rainy start to the day!
Homeward bound this evening after a wonderful time at @decidim 's conference, #DecidimFest.
Lots of inspiration and many synergies between orgs who use Decidim and what @mautic could offer them. Food for thought!
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Home Office fails to monitor asylum accommodation providers including Clearsprings and Serco | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-not-monitoring-asylum-seekers-accommodation-providers-billion-pound-contracts-clearsprings-serco-mears/#HomeOffice
#AsylumSeekers
#Refugees
#Housing
#AsylumAccommodation
#Clearsprings
#Serco
#Substandard
#SubstandardHousing
#OpenDemocracy
#Liberty
#Mears
#NationalAuditOffice
#NAO
#NoUpToDateListOfSubcontractors
#StayBelvedereHotels
#CrownLodge
#LionsGroup
#AASC
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/the-american-dark-money-behind-europes-far-right/
#OpenDemocracy 11 July 2019
The American #DarkMoney behind #EuropeanFarRight
by #MaryFitzgerald and #Claire Provost#FarRight #ExtrêmeDroite #SuivezLArgent #Extremism #WhiteSupremacism #FCKNZS #GegenNazis :antifa:
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How incredibly dissappointing that #OpenDemocracy -- which appears to cc0 it's articles, even -- does not have a working RSS feed.
After much searching I found a way to download (and only download) an .rss file. Which is a bad joke; there is no URL I can use.Shame, because the reporting is excellent. I won't remember to read it.
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‘Scandalous’ if UK watchdog role left empty when Rwanda plan starts, says inspector | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/19/scandalous-if-uk-watchdog-role-left-empty-when-rwanda-plan-starts-says-inspector#UK
#Rwanda
#ChiefInspectorOfBordersAndImmigration
#Neal
#OpenDemocracy
#HomeOffice
#IllegalImmigrationMinister
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The #KnightsOfColumbus, a #billiondollar all-#male #Catholic #order, gave $10.8m to fund hundreds of ‘#deceptive’ #antiabortion #CrisisPregnancyCentres in #secret.
#openDemocracy, reports this far exceeds prior #disclosures.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #WomensRights #Abortion #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #TaxReligiousGroups
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Exclusive: Tory MP earns £900 an hour from arms firm run by bribery suspect
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When far-right ideas become mainstream, it’s people of colour who suffer
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/runnymede-trust-crisis-far-right-racism-braverman-cleverly/
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Torture victims being housed on Bibby Stockholm in possible breach of rules
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UK Home Office evicts hundreds of asylum seekers from hotel with days’ notice
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-seekers-hotel-walthamstow-london-home-office-clearsprings/
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Ich habe mir einmal erlaubt, die Liste mit den dazugehörigen Links auf die jeweiligen Spendenseiten zu erstellen:
https://wolke.netzbegruenung.de/s/GggLznik8gsqAcZ
#Alarmphone #Campact #Digitalcourage #EuropeanNenvorkAgainstRacism #FragdenStaat #gijn #HumanRightsWatch #InternationalMigrationInitiative #MareLiberum #Netzpolitikorg #NetzwerkRecherche #OpenDemocracy #ProAsyl #RatfürMigration #SeaEye #SeaWatch #SOSMediterranée #TransparencyInternational #Volksverpetzer
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When you hear from a pundit from a UK think Tank on TV or radio and wonder whether they're 'on the level' or 'dodgey a/f' check them out here.
Nice update from #OpenDemocracy
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in Britain, #OpenDemocracy media (represented by #FoxgloveLegal) was ultimately forced to challenge the #UK government via legal channels to obtain a copy of the 1-pound contract between #NHS and #Palantir:
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Sept 2023 #OpenDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/the-queer-hate-crime-case-testing-the-limits-of-ghanas-justice-system/#hatecrime #LGBTQIAplus :anqueer_flag: :newpride:
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Open Democracy is preparing a briefing for MPs calling for a review of how NHS contracts have been awarded to the US spy-tech firm Palantir. They want to demonstrate what openDemocracy readers think about this issue. The link to their survey is here:
https://nhs-data.paperform.co/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7Xk6toSLI9GmA13iML-VdLDs%3D.YjCYwm
Please complete it if you are concerned. In any case, please share.
#Palantir #PeterThiel #NHS #Data #DataPrivacy #SpyTech #OpenDemocracy
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Most Asylum Seeker Accommodation 'Horrendous and Often Dangerous' as Government Plans to Legalise Hazardous Housing – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/09/22/most-asylum-seeker-accommodation-horrendous-and-often-dangerous-as-government-plans-to-legalise-hazardous-housing/#AsylumSeekers
#Accommodation
#HazardousHousing
#LegalizingHazardousHousing
#UKGov
#Tories
#HMOs
#BrookHouse
#ToxicCulture
#Braverman
#OpenDemocracy
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Home Office stops feeding hundreds of Afghan refugees stuck in hotel limbo | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/home-office-stops-feeding-hundreds-afghan-refugees-still-hotels#HomeOffice
#AfghanRefugees
#Hotels
#Homelessness
#Homeless
#OpenDemocracy
#AfghansWhoWorkedWithBritish
#Pollard
#RefugeCouncil
#InterimAccomodation
#Food
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NHS officials knew Palantir would secure data deal, newly uncovered emails suggest
Palantir has been awarded five consecutive NHS contracts without a competitive bidding process