🇨🇭🇷🇴 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸🇦🇫 --- Bookworm 📚 --- Holding the line
En novembre, un colloque d'historiens sur le thème de la Palestine était "cancellé" par le Collège de France sur demande du ministre de l'éducation pour éviter des potentiels débordements. La justice français a maintenant tranché que « l’existence d’une polémique ne justifie pas une annulation » 1/
Edwy PlenelLa justice donne tort à l'administrateur du Collège de France qui avait annulé un colloque sur la Palestine. Le tribunal administratif de Paris considère que la décision de l’institution « est entachée d’une erreur d’appréciation ». www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Great long read. Zuckerberg is such a cartoon evil: "We had fought hard for an anonymous jury. (...) Then Zuckerberg shows up with security guards wearing Meta glasses. They can easily do facial identification and figure out exactly who the jurors are." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and wonWhen Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...www.theguardian.comA great🧵 about Meta & Zuckerberg, summed up nicely by the following skeet:
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)It's a terrible company, with awful products, run by the worst people. 19/
Great article that goes beyond the empty free-speech debate, summarised in the following quote: "But the question is not just about censorship. It’s about whether a democracy is obligated to provide a frictionless commercial platform to an aggressor state’s cultural exports during wartime."
SevaI have two young kids so I've suffered through my share of Masha and the Bear, which pops up practically by default on the junior Netflix channels. But until this controversy I had no idea of its reach. Propaganda or not, it’s certainly one of Russia’s most successful cultural exports.