#publicinterest — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publicinterest, aggregated by home.social.
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme vs Big Pharma
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme vs Big Pharma
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme vs Big Pharma
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme vs Big Pharma
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme vs Big Pharma
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The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
E. Jean Carroll should auction off that $5.6M check from Trump
#Trump, #EJeanCarroll, #5.6MCheck, #Justice, #LegalBattle, #PublicInterest
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E. Jean Carroll should auction off that $5.6M check from Trump
#Trump, #EJeanCarroll, #5.6MCheck, #Justice, #LegalBattle, #PublicInterest
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E. Jean Carroll should auction off that $5.6M check from Trump
#Trump, #EJeanCarroll, #5.6MCheck, #Justice, #LegalBattle, #PublicInterest
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https://www.europesays.com/people/147122/ Chief justice asked to ban prediction markets participation for justices and staff #ABAJournal #Career&Practice #CourtAdministration #Ethics #FederalGovernment #Government #JohnRoberts #Judiciary #law #LegalNews #PublicInterest #USSupremeCourt
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TT (French -> English) @br66: "Sport is a common good. When FIFA disregards transparency rules, it is only right for Europe to demand accountability. No one should be above the law, especially an organization as powerful as that. Demanding an investigation is not about politicizing football; it is simply a reminder that ethics and democracy apply to everyone—even the giants of the sports world."
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TT (French -> English) @br66: "Sport is a common good. When FIFA disregards transparency rules, it is only right for Europe to demand accountability. No one should be above the law, especially an organization as powerful as that. Demanding an investigation is not about politicizing football; it is simply a reminder that ethics and democracy apply to everyone—even the giants of the sports world."
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TT (French -> English) @br66: "Sport is a common good. When FIFA disregards transparency rules, it is only right for Europe to demand accountability. No one should be above the law, especially an organization as powerful as that. Demanding an investigation is not about politicizing football; it is simply a reminder that ethics and democracy apply to everyone—even the giants of the sports world."
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TT (French -> English) @br66: "Sport is a common good. When FIFA disregards transparency rules, it is only right for Europe to demand accountability. No one should be above the law, especially an organization as powerful as that. Demanding an investigation is not about politicizing football; it is simply a reminder that ethics and democracy apply to everyone—even the giants of the sports world."
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TT (French -> English) @br66: "Sport is a common good. When FIFA disregards transparency rules, it is only right for Europe to demand accountability. No one should be above the law, especially an organization as powerful as that. Demanding an investigation is not about politicizing football; it is simply a reminder that ethics and democracy apply to everyone—even the giants of the sports world."
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Blank Rome sued over data breach that exposed more than 57K people’s information
Home Daily News Blank Rome sued over data breach that exposed… Cybersecurity Blank Rome sued over data breach…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #ABAJournal #Career&Practice #ClientProtection #Cybersecurity #Ethics #law #LawFirms #legalnews #Pennsylvania #PracticeManagement #PracticeTechnology #PrivacyLaw #PublicInterest #States #Technology #Trials&Litigation
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This week in NYC's #CivicTech is out. Early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Albany's tech session closed with big losses for the industry. The Charter Revision Commission wants public comment. Participatory budgeting is open online.
Plus a farewell from our Chief of Staff, Jazzy Smith, new jobs, and events.
#CivicTech #NYC #OpenData #PublicInterest #BetaNYC #NewYork
Read the full issue → https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week25
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This week in NYC's #CivicTech is out. Early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Albany's tech session closed with big losses for the industry. The Charter Revision Commission wants public comment. Participatory budgeting is open online.
Plus a farewell from our Chief of Staff, Jazzy Smith, new jobs, and events.
#CivicTech #NYC #OpenData #PublicInterest #BetaNYC #NewYork
Read the full issue → https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week25
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This week in NYC's #CivicTech is out. Early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Albany's tech session closed with big losses for the industry. The Charter Revision Commission wants public comment. Participatory budgeting is open online.
Plus a farewell from our Chief of Staff, Jazzy Smith, new jobs, and events.
#CivicTech #NYC #OpenData #PublicInterest #BetaNYC #NewYork
Read the full issue → https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week25
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This week in NYC's #CivicTech is out. Early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Albany's tech session closed with big losses for the industry. The Charter Revision Commission wants public comment. Participatory budgeting is open online.
Plus a farewell from our Chief of Staff, Jazzy Smith, new jobs, and events.
#CivicTech #NYC #OpenData #PublicInterest #BetaNYC #NewYork
Read the full issue → https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week25
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This week in NYC's #CivicTech is out. Early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Albany's tech session closed with big losses for the industry. The Charter Revision Commission wants public comment. Participatory budgeting is open online.
Plus a farewell from our Chief of Staff, Jazzy Smith, new jobs, and events.
#CivicTech #NYC #OpenData #PublicInterest #BetaNYC #NewYork
Read the full issue → https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week25
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https://www.europesays.com/news/43225/ Judge Rebuffs Biden Bid to Block Release of Recordings #BeauBiden #ghostwriters #Headlines #InvasionOfPrivacy #JoeBiden #judge #judges #News #Privacy #PublicInterest #recording #RobertHur #TopStories
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YouTube’s Brand Safety Rules Override EU Public Interest
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 21, 2026
Reporting
YouTube maintains that its content policies balance safety, free expression, and public interest. In communications with European regulators, the platform emphasizes that enforcement decisions are guided by clear standards designed to protect users and advertisers alike.
In practice, advertiser preferences often determine outcomes.
EU journalists, educators, and civic commentators report that content addressing lawful but sensitive topics—war reporting, political corruption, labor disputes, public health failures—faces reduced distribution or demonetization despite compliance with platform rules. The common factor is not illegality, but perceived brand risk.
YouTube’s own guidance distinguishes between content that is allowed and content that is “not suitable for ads.” Yet the consequences of ad unsuitability extend beyond revenue. Reduced monetization frequently coincides with diminished recommendations and visibility, even when content remains publicly available.
Analysis
Brand safety functions as a parallel governance system.
While public-facing policies describe content standards, advertiser-facing controls shape what is amplified. Decisions made to reassure advertisers can quietly outweigh considerations of public interest, particularly in news and civic contexts. Because these controls are framed as commercial rather than editorial, they receive less regulatory scrutiny.
This hierarchy reflects incentives set at the parent level. Google operates one of the world’s largest advertising networks. Protecting advertiser confidence is central to that business. When commercial risk and civic value conflict, systems optimized for revenue predictably favor the former.
For EU regulators, this creates a mismatch. Laws designed to protect democratic discourse and media pluralism can be undermined by private brand safety standards that are neither transparent nor accountable.
What Remains Unclear
YouTube does not disclose how brand safety classifications affect recommendation systems within the EU. It does not publish data showing how often public-interest content is restricted for advertiser reasons, nor whether such restrictions vary by country or topic. Without this information, the scale of the impact cannot be assessed.
Why This Matters
Public-interest content often addresses uncomfortable realities. If its reach depends on advertiser tolerance rather than legal standards, then commercial considerations effectively set the boundaries of permissible discourse.
EU law does not grant advertisers veto power over lawful speech. Yet opaque brand safety systems can produce that outcome indirectly. When visibility and sustainability hinge on advertiser comfort, creators are incentivized to avoid topics that matter most to democratic accountability.
For oversight to be meaningful, regulators must examine not only formal content rules, but the commercial systems that quietly determine which voices are heard. Until those systems are transparent, claims of balanced governance remain incomplete.
References (APA)
European Commission. (2024). Digital Services Act: Protection of civic discourse and media pluralism.
#advertising #brandSafety #EURegulation #Google #publicInterest #YouTube
Center for Democracy & Technology. (2023). Brand safety, advertising, and online speech.
Napoli, P. M. (2019). Social media and the public interest. Columbia University Press. -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899
For humanity to reach its potential, financial resources must be prioritized for collective needs rather than billionaire wealth.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899
For humanity to reach its potential, financial resources must be prioritized for collective needs rather than billionaire wealth.
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Under the spoils system a man is appointed to an ordinary clerical or ministerial position in the municipal, Federal, or State government, not primarily because he is expected to be a good servant, but because he has rendered help to some big boss or to the henchman of some big boss. His stay in office depends not upon how he performs service, but upon how he retains his influence in the party. This necessarily means that his attention to the interests of the public at large, even though real, is secondary to his devotion to his organization, or to the interest of the ward leader who put him in his place.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 5 “Applied Idealism” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #civilservant #civilservice #corruption #employment #favoritism #graft #influence #merit #partisanship #politics #publicinterest #quidproquo #spoils #spoilssystem
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Data centre proposals can be overwhelming by design.
So I pulled together the questions communities should be asking before approvals happen.
Not slogans. Not panic. Just the questions that matter.
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is free:
https://archive.org/details/the-data-center-anarchists-handbook
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Data centre proposals can be overwhelming by design.
So I pulled together the questions communities should be asking before approvals happen.
Not slogans. Not panic. Just the questions that matter.
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is free:
https://archive.org/details/the-data-center-anarchists-handbook
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Data centre proposals can be overwhelming by design.
So I pulled together the questions communities should be asking before approvals happen.
Not slogans. Not panic. Just the questions that matter.
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is free:
https://archive.org/details/the-data-center-anarchists-handbook
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Data centre proposals can be overwhelming by design.
So I pulled together the questions communities should be asking before approvals happen.
Not slogans. Not panic. Just the questions that matter.
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is free:
https://archive.org/details/the-data-center-anarchists-handbook
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Data centre proposals can be overwhelming by design.
So I pulled together the questions communities should be asking before approvals happen.
Not slogans. Not panic. Just the questions that matter.
The Data Center Anarchists’ Handbook is free:
https://archive.org/details/the-data-center-anarchists-handbook
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💰 Tell regulators to stop this $67 billion utility power grab. Data center demand should not become an excuse for corporate consolidation, higher electric bills, and less accountability for ordinary families. civicshout.com/p/block-the-... #CorporateGreed #PublicInterest
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chatgpt.com/s/t_6a296e2a... #ElectionIntegrity #KristenWelker #DonaldTrump #MeetThePress #MediaAccountability #JournalisticIntegrity #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #Transparency #CivicEmpowerment #CriticalThinking #PoliticalAccountability #InformedCitizenship #PublicInterest #OneCrisisTwoFaces
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A good post on the state of civic tech today.
Many practitioners are rushing to implement harmful solutions, more efficiently
https://blog.ronbronson.com/better-technology-for-cruelty-or-administrative-burden-as-a-service
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A good post on the state of civic tech today.
Many practitioners are rushing to implement harmful solutions, more efficiently
https://blog.ronbronson.com/better-technology-for-cruelty-or-administrative-burden-as-a-service
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A good post on the state of civic tech today.
Many practitioners are rushing to implement harmful solutions, more efficiently
https://blog.ronbronson.com/better-technology-for-cruelty-or-administrative-burden-as-a-service
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A good post on the state of civic tech today.
Many practitioners are rushing to implement harmful solutions, more efficiently
https://blog.ronbronson.com/better-technology-for-cruelty-or-administrative-burden-as-a-service
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A good post on the state of civic tech today.
Many practitioners are rushing to implement harmful solutions, more efficiently
https://blog.ronbronson.com/better-technology-for-cruelty-or-administrative-burden-as-a-service
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💰 Tell regulators to stop this $67 billion utility power grab. Data center demand should not become an excuse for corporate consolidation, higher electric bills, and less accountability for ordinary families. civicshout.com/p/block-the-... #CorporateGreed #PublicInterest
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Health Dossier Remains Sealed; Questions Swirl
Donald Trump's latest health report is still not public. People want to know why the White House is not sharing details.
#TrumpHealth, #WhiteHouse, #Transparency, #HealthReport, #PublicInterest
https://newsletter.tf/trump-health-report-not-released-white-house/
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Health Dossier Remains Sealed; Questions Swirl
Donald Trump's latest health report is still not public. People want to know why the White House is not sharing details.
#TrumpHealth, #WhiteHouse, #Transparency, #HealthReport, #PublicInterest
https://newsletter.tf/trump-health-report-not-released-white-house/