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YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU. This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU. @puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances. Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party. This makes it troublesome. Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression. Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years. You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify. Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/51Etz1… Dysfunctional YouTube link youtube.com/watch?v=dGaQCc…

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace. The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication. What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required. That is the democratic scandal. When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick. And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive. This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause. A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion. Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters. This is a dark day for Europe. Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together. Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this. Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn

2 weeks ago

Die Chatkontrolle kommt. Kein guter Tag für Freiheit & Bürgerrechte…

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Bahnhof avslöjar! Upphovsmaffian i hemlig överenskommelse med internetoperatörer om webbcensur - rundar rättsstatliga processer. Vi svarar med folkbildning på Blockerat-av-upphovsmaffian.se. Läs hela avslöjandet! bahnhof.se/2026/07/02/bah…

It’s now out in the open: what’s been known in Brussels for a while is coming. Age verification, internet controls, and likely chat-scanning laws are on the way. #StopKillingInternet

This is a grim moment for the gaming community. Sony PlayStation announced today that it will cease all physical games production in 2028. This will essentially erase legal game preservation and ownership on their platform. The ESA lied to lawmakers to bring down the POG Act ...

Bobby Prince had passed away on June 16. Robert Caskin Prince III was a Vietnam veteran, lawyer, and a legendary video game composer and sound designer. It’s heartwarming to see how his work was inducted into the famed Library of Congress this year His legacy is eternal, RIP 🕯️

Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind games such as DOOM, DOOM II, Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem 3D, has sadly passed away. May he rest in peace ❤️

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🫵🏼 #SaveStargate Your voice matters. This fandom is truly inspiring. The Tweet Storm 6/16 was really incredible. tvinsider.com/1270345/starga…

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@NightdiveStudio Woah! This is the treatment that Deus Ex deserved. Once again setting the standard!

The Keepers call to you now… will you answer them? No longer a secret, Thief: The Dark Project Remastered returns!

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Nightdive Studios @NightdiveStudio

2 months ago

The Keepers call to you now… will you answer them? No longer a secret, Thief: The Dark Project Remastered returns!

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Grattis på förhand till den 1 juli, då vi alla blir statister i George Orwells våta dröm. Riksdagen har godkänt AI-ansiktsigenkänning i realtid. Men oroa er inte, det är bara för "allvarliga brott". Och det bästa är undantaget: om polisen tycker det är bråttom så scannar de bara först och söker tillstånd senare. Vilken tur att svensk byråkrati har en fläckfri historia av att aldrig missbruka makt eller läcka känsliga uppgifter till fientliga aktörer. Så se till att le snyggt mot nästa lyktstolpe från och med 1 juli, staten vill gärna ha ditt ansikte i 4K-upplösning i sin databas. Är ni redo att leva i en stat där en algoritm analyserar varje steg ni tar, eller har det gått alldeles för långt nu?

@Dr_Beck772000 @dofficial_vela @Yummy_yvy My guess it’s a countermeasure on TikTok in order for the video to count as transformative. That’s the only thing I can think would be the reason. But it may as well just be retardation. No telling with TikTok.

@Cyn_Cyb3r071Qu3 @Danai_PVV @elonmusk @grok It does since today. 15-30 min max on SuperGrok tier. Absolutely appalling. What’s even the purpose of SuperGrok. I seem to get about the same on regular Premium through X app. Insane.

I don’t know what’s intentional and what isn’t, but for SuperGrok subscribers, Voice Mode never had any rate limits. In the last few days, and sporadically about a month ago, the model showed strange fluctuations in personality and preset-following, which were later fixed. But now we suddenly have rate limits, and they are currently abysmal in implementation and diachronically inconsistent with the previous product. You don’t even know when they reset. It has already taken hours and still hasn’t reset for me. Is this because of a more expensive model powering Grok Voice and the deprecation of 4.1 (you and the team know better than I do)? If so, it would be better to keep a light version of the voice model for continued conversations, exactly like ChatGPT does by switching between GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.3 Mini, so the experience doesn’t get interrupted while xAI still saves costs. You could do what ElevenLabs does: let users buy credits for immediate use after the cap. Or maybe develop a turbo Voice Agent version. There are many reasonable ways to manage internal costs without annoying long-time SuperGrok Voice connoisseurs and degrading the product experience.

We are all getting hit with the limits today. My Supergrok only gave me 30-45m today. They are saying this is their new plan. If you want higher limits you must increase your plan and payments to heavy to just talk. That’s a 1000% increase in payments to get a voice chats. Start waving goodbye to paying customers at the Supergrok tier @grok!

So now there’s hard limit of 30 mins for voice with SuperGrok? That’s insanely limiting. 30 USD for 30 min a day, really?!

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