Livestream here.
Program here.
For memory, Bluesky Thread:
I PANEL Media Concentration, Ownership, and Regulation
Heard that @thierrybreton.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker, curious to hear what he'll have to say
Just heard that @thierrybreton.bsky.social cancelled!
First disclosure: "100% of my salary has been paid by Jeff Bezos"
I love history beyond anything else, but struggle to see how this is a useful framing so far TBH.
Dear @alexandrageese.bsky.social , you rock! Censorship imposed by the US after WWII because of the nazification - correct decision - than media system gifted by the US as well - not perfect, bt worked nicely!
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50m[Proud to be paying your salary, @alexandrageese.bsky.social ]
Elon Musk suppressing freedom of speech à gogo - what is the @stiglercenter.bsky.social still doing there?
'Relationship of President Trump with President Putin' - I hope you have a diplomatic passport, @alexandrageese.bsky.social
"Elon Musk pushing heavily far-right content" - what about DSA access to the data?
Trump, TikTok and China tariffs: good luck making sense of it!
Policy proposals, a 📒from @alexandrageese.bsky.social:
- not taking down content (we don't do that in the EU), but creating transparency around the algorithms;
- if algorithms create systemic risks for democracy: ❌
- full transparency for GenAI;
- profiling and the data collection: ❌
Doing your own research is good (agree), but what about the content that you find on social media etc.? Well, I agree that many people of my generation and even younger discovered the Internet because of Facebbok (🙈) and were not taught anything better...
II PANEL Musk, China, Economic Power, and Influence Across Borders
Second panel, and freedom of speech. Yeah...By the way, I got censored by ChatGPT a lot, as of late - this 👇 "escaped" censorship, just about
(this was related to the fact that because of him we could get a true Single Marke
"Embrace this opportunity" to fight for democracy, says Barry Lynn, we have many friends in MAGA too - élite people, technocrats...speak the f* up!
TBH, just holding this conference in the US at this moment in time is *brave* 👏 - "strong level of state support for Tesla" in China
Wong has a real talent for scaring the life out of all of us.
Prof. Rolnik is tackling a very serious issue of fake videos that’s putting his reputation on the line - Meta doesn't care, of course
Pending action in the EU against Musk, this is the article Barry Lynn just mentioned www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/t... I think
Keynote Speech
[I was at a conference in Chicago once, and all the people serving food were Black, while the attendees were all white. I felt like I’d stepped into Gone with the Wind!]
April 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Already second time that we hear from the organizers that Breton cancelled but that we're very lucky because we have a much better keynote speaker - why didn't you invite him as your first choice the 🤔?
Democratic backsliding is slow - all like frogs in the US at the moment.
I could really use some uplifting examples of democracy right now. Switzerland, maybe?
"A network of institution" fourth branch - souds like EU bureaucracy!
Data portability + horizontal interoperability 👉 "digital freedom of assembly" - also beyond the DMA
Eleanor Fox: Antitrust v. First Amendment in the Musk v. advertisers case - but deciding not to advertise on a Nazi Platform could also be also a manifestation of freedom of expression 🤔
