'Are EU Kidding Me?', my critique of the EU KIDS Act, the EC's chaotic social media ban, is now forthcoming in the excellent Georgetown Law Technology Review. It's updated w/ some extra bits here files.michae.lv/papers/veale... (You can also respond to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...)

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Internet users and platforms, like authors, printers, book publishers, distributors, privately owned spaces open to the public, Conway Hall, you name it, are governed by laws made by the state. That is its role. Freedom to act and speak within those laws is not 'outsourced' by the state. 2/2

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I assume there is precedent in non-speech cases for settlements that cause one huge industry player to go out and pressure the other ones. If you know of those, can you post examples?

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Die Entscheidung des EuGH i.S. #Nextbase wäre beinahe durchs Sommerloch gefallen - verdient aber Aufmerksamkeit. Nähme man sie ernst, wäre sie ein ziemliches Problem für alle von uns, die in ihrer Freizeit Meinungen veröffentlichen. Ja, auch hier auf Bluesky. www.linkedin.com/pulse/lexbas...

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there's been a lot of reporting on how grokipedia is bad, but less reporting on just HOW bad, how spectacularly, slapstick-level bad it is. leaked system prompts, infinite loops, arguing with itself in article text, so much more wrote a post about this: blog.aionwikipedia.com/the-dumbest-...

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