Alex Govo

Cuando el Benfica tenía imposible clasificarse aparece el portero en el último minuto para meter el 4-2 al Real Madrid que le clasifica para los dieciseisavos y puede tocarle otra vez el Real Madrid!!

Trump should just invade Norway to grab the Nobel Peace Prize instead of invading Greenland. Law of the jungle allows that!! Forget global community ensuring countries without nukes are not overpowered by might. Every country will want nukes & MAD at the expense of human development. Defense over healthcare or education! Unfortunate consequences. California should have its own nukes. Minneapolis definitely needs it. Let's shut down Medicaid. Maybe billionaires can develop their personal nuke arsenals.

Burn a koran. Insult someone. Deny climate change. Pray outside an abortion clinic. say something nice about Hitler or something bad about transsexuals. You’ll end up in jail. That’s not freedom of expression.

This is a huge escalation. For the first time ever the US started sanctioning former senior EU officials, namely former European Commissioner Thierry Breton. If anyone doubted there was a Euro-US split going on, this is yet another hostile action by the US that makes it loud and clear. The official reason is, as expected, completely Orwellian. They sanction Breton because of his involvement in the Digital Services Act (DSA), which they claim was "extraterritorial legislation" even though it was designed to regulate content on European soil, viewed by European users. You can perfectly disagree with the DSA for plenty of reasons. But the fact is that it was policing content shown in Europe to Europeans (wherever the content may have come from). What the Americans are doing here however - sanctioning former EU officials for drafting EU legislation in Europe aimed at Europeans - is textbook extraterritoriality. Hence the "Orwellian" nature of this move by the US: accusing others of precisely what you're doing yourself. Americans say this is all about "free speech", a narrative which a frightening amount of people seem to believe. When the truth is the exact opposite: this move is about ensuring American tech platforms remain the unchallenged gatekeepers of Europe's information space, free from any oversight by Europeans themselves. And, case in point, the very fact that so many people believe this "free speech" narrative is proof in and of itself of just how effective these platforms are at shaping narratives. For the record I'm not arguing in the least that the DSA was a good piece of legislation or that Thierry Breton is some sort of tragic hero here. What I am arguing in favor of, as I consistently do, is sovereignty. I heavily dislike the EU in its present form precisely because they systematically kowtow to the US at the expense of European interests. That's a logical error I see way too many people make: they hate the EU for the same reasons I do and then cheer hostile actions by the US because, hey, who doesn't like to see an institution one hates under attack? But that's completely incoherent: you can't cheer the master punishing the servant if your complaint was the servitude in the first place.... Now it'll be interesting to see how the EU responds. If one cares about European sovereignty, this is not a precedent that can go unanswered, otherwise it's a very slippery slope: every time Europe passes legislation the US dislikes, the officials responsible can expect to be sanctioned. If the EU doesn't do anything to respond forcefully it's an institutional message they send to all their rank and file: "don't do anything to anger the Americans because we won't have your back." Sadly, I wouldn't hold my breath. The most we're likely to get is a strongly worded statement, and even that would be surprising. Which is precisely the problem: those who despise the EU for bending the knee to Washington are probably about to watch them bend the knee once more. There's nothing to applaud here.

Europe would benefit from a ban of X in the EU and subsequent exodus of Europeans onto a European, open source, open algo, Russia-free, MAGA-free platform.

HUGO AT THE DOUBLE!!! 🎯

Know the difference

Beware of Elon Musk & his christmas' racist disinformation campaign. (Not a single person died, the driver was under the influence of drugs & alcohol)

This is a great snapshot of what this whole debate is about: