Chatkontrolle: Kein Nachweis, dass Massen-Scans verhältnismäßig sind netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontr… image
Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York, Dec. 16, 2025 — President Donald Trump on Monday followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary. The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list. By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets in lawsuits filed since his second term started — almost nine times his current estimated net worth, according to Forbes.“The U.S. has laws in place to restrict litigation by prisoners, the most powerless people in our society, because of their supposed propensity to file bad faith litigation. Meanwhile, the most powerful man in the world gets away with filing more nonsense lawsuits than practically anyone, incarcerated or otherwise. “Perhaps the interview edit in question wasn’t the BBC’s best work. The BBC has acknowledged that. But U.S. defamation law is compensatory, not punitive. You don’t get to call out any alleged journalistic blunder and demand $10 billion. “It’s preposterous for Trump to claim those damages when he won the 2024 election and hasn’t lost a penny because of the BBC’s editing. It’s also absurd for him to claim associating him with January 6 is defamatory after he spent years insisting nothing bad happened that day and then pardoned those involved. And it’s similarly outrageous that his claims are based on supposedly damaging implications of his using the word “fight.” He sells T-shirts with that word on them. “Putting aside the incoherence of Trump claiming election interference damages for an election he won, his damages theory also concedes that he views the presidency as a personal profit-making venture. “Fortunately for the BBC, we’ve seen this movie before. Caving to Trump gets you nothing. Plus, Trump’s hand is considerably weaker than in the past — his authoritarian censorship antics are increasingly unpopular. People are tired of his thin-skinned bully tactics. The only way for the BBC to preserve its journalistic integrity is to fight back.” Please contact us if you would like further comment. freedom.press/issues/trumps-bb…
DSGVO-Reform: „Beim Datenschutz ist Deutschland inzwischen dem Silicon Valley näher als dem Rest der EU“ netzpolitik.org/2025/dsgvo-ref… image
Polizeigesetz-Entwurf: Auch Schleswig-Holstein will Verhaltensscanner netzpolitik.org/2025/polizeige… image
Digital Fights: Digital Roots: Wir wollen ein Netz für alle netzpolitik.org/2025/digital-f… image
Report: Most journalist detainments this year are at protests As of Dec. 15, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has documented 32 detainments or charges against journalists in the U.S. — 28 of those at immigration-related protests — according to a new report released by the Freedom of Press Foundation (FPF) project this week. The report notes how, unlike most years, the majority of journalists were released without charges or had them soon dropped, with law enforcement instead focusing on deterring news gathering rather than pursuing charges. Read the Tracker's 2025 arrest report Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars, who authored the report, said it was “shocking” to see the sharp increase in the number of journalists released without being charged. “While perhaps a sign that officers know the journalists cannot be charged as protesters, each detention pulls eyes and ears from often chaotic protest scenes, and that may well be the point,” Sugars said. For journalist Dave Decker, being arrested at an anti-deportation demonstration in Miami last month and held in custody for more than 30 hours was a way to “put the brakes on press freedom,” he told the Tracker. “News is only news for a couple of hours, when it’s breaking like that,” Decker said. “I would say that there were no wires out there, there were no local people, there were no stand-ups, no TV, no helicopter. There was none of that there. So I was literally the only journalist out there. They effectively stopped the news from getting out.” In 2025, more than 30 journalists were detained or charged for doing their jobs. freedom.press/issues/report-mo… image
2026 Pirate National Conference comes to Boston! Reposted from the US Pirate Party. Weeks of voting has come to a conclusion, and it is official: Boston, MA will be the host city for the 2026 Pirate National Conference, taking place on June 6th, 2026. A single round knockout elimination tournament featuring twelve cities has concluded with Boston defeating fellow finalist city Vicksburg, MS. The following cities, in addition to Vicksburg, shall remain in permanent consideration for a future conference host city: Albuquerque, NM Chicago, IL Las Vegas, NV Louisville, KY Mobile, AL New Orleans, LA Plattsburgh, NY Portland, OR Providence, RI San Francisco, CA* Seattle, WA *San Francisco was host city for the 2025 Pirate National Conference and thus was not in consideration for the 2026 conference We promised a conference on a boat, and by hell or high water, we will get ourselves a conference on a boat. Boston being selected as host city not only provides us with an instantly recognizable location, but one so deeply entrenched in U.S. history and struggles against tyranny. As well, this allows us to honor the Massachusetts Pirate Party properly. The MAPP features some of the hardest working and most dedicated Pirates in the country, so having our conference, one which will mark twenty years of the United States Pirate Party, in their home state is fitting. There wouldn’t be a twenty years old Pirate Party in existence today without the work of the Massachusetts Pirate Party. For that, I could not think of a more perfect setting. We look forward to providing you with more details about our conference as the weeks go on. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing you in Boston (or online, since it’s a in-person-online hybrid conference). Boston, Victory is Arrrs. masspirates.org/blog/2025/12/1… image
Reform der DSGVO: Datenschutzkonferenz kritisiert Pläne der EU-Kommission netzpolitik.org/2025/reform-de… image