And they've grown in scope and use like wildfires (as per Underground Empire), I'd be surprised if there hadn't been an impact. Rumours of OFAC being used against DSA makes it timely too.
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Digital sovereignty for you, Robin. Europe does it in a worse way from the Internet infrastructure level to fight Russian disinformation. I don’t know who is coming up with using “OFAC” against DSA, but one thing to know is that OFAC is an office. You can’t just use it…
aug 31, 2025, 4:38 am • 2 0 • view
I was wondering about this -- do you know if/how much the EU asserted authority to make anyone block RT and Sputnick etc. for users outside of EU territory? @tjmcintyre.com ?
aug 31, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I know in the immediate aftermath of the invasion and the initial flurry of sanctions, many RT/Sputnick related accounts went offline but I gather many returned in the months afterwards and enforcement is poor.
aug 31, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
They also told platform(s) to block that material, and tried to be quiet about it, and... it was a whole messy thing. x.com/daphnehk/sta...
aug 31, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Over the summer @alliance4europe.bsky.social published a report focused on X's ongoing content moderation failures of sanctioned russian entities alliance4europe.eu/flagged-and-...
aug 31, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't think we've any visibility into what the Commission did, other than that one email which was uploaded to Lumen. Even that email is ambiguous - search results blocked for "users in the EU" but no such limit for social media restrictions.
aug 31, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view