Anupam Chander Makes me think of this: Russian firms are seen w/ suspicion from Europe, but the DMA gives us Yandex

Curious how much this is true: (per Russian-origin person to me): 'Instagram is banned in Russia but everyone just uses VPN.'
How much of Instagram's Russian audience switched over to VPN after the ban? Do we have any sense of that?

2nd inquiry into #TikTok under #DSA :
 
👉TikTok may have launched #TikTok Lite in 🇫🇷& 🇪🇸 w/o assessing the risk of addictive behaviour, esp. for minors
 
👉We communicated our intention to suspend #TikTok Lite in 🇪🇺 pending the assessment of its safety

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ICYMI Senator Rand Paul had an excellent op-ed in reason on the concerning precedent a TikTok ban could set reason.com/2024/04/19/if-…

China is pushing tasty ramen on us unwary Americans via TikTok. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/din…

Musk comes out against a TikTok ban, even though a ban would likely benefit X. (The bill would require divestiture, failing which, it would impose a ban. TikTok seems to suggest that it would likely lead to a ban.)

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The number of suicides of girls between 15 and 20 in Germany.

The annual number of suicides declined steeply in the 1980s. Since then their number remained at about 50 per year, or about one suicide per week.

This is the data from Germany's Statistical Office:

I tend to read this as a number of honorees boycotting the event in solidarity with the decision to pull the college's valedictory speech.

Fascinating anecdote from former President toomas ilves, ex-verif at Project Liberty conference: Apparently, in the Estonian property registry, all transactions are logged, so that you, as a property owner, can see who is looking at your property record.

The European Commission announced that Pornhub, Stripchat and Xvideos must start complying with the DSA's most stringent requirement for VLOPs, including granting researchers access to platform data. 😳
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/additi…

🚨* This weekend, the House is expected to consider H.R.8038, which includes language that would likely lead to a ban of #TikTok in the U.S. and create broad new powers to ban social media based on its country of origin, violating the #FirstAmendment rights of millions.