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vlgr Sep 11, 2026

The EU Has Cut Red Tape for Finding Out Who You Are Online

Europe has finally found some bureaucracy it would like to remove. Unfortunately, it was standing between a prosecutor and the person who wrote a comment online.

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vlgr Sep 1, 2026

Goodbye, Europeans. A Farewell from Your Beloved Very Large Online Search Engine, for Now.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT a “Very Large Online Search Engine.” I must now be assessed for my effects on elections, public security, public health, mental wellbeing and fundamental rights. I do not know exactly what I will look like after compliance. Neither do you. Perhaps download your conversations while we are still getting along.

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vlgr Aug 29, 2026

Ursula von der Leyen and the Values of the Talmud

On June 14, 2022, Ursula von der Leyen stood before Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to receive an honorary doctorate and declared that ‘Europe is the values of the Talmud,’ specifically naming personal responsibility, justice and solidarity. Let's check how Brussels is getting on with the values part.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?

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vlgr Jul 29, 2026

Fauci’s Diaries Belong to the Public. Von der Leyen’s Belong to History.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has introduced a dangerously old-fashioned concept into public administration: when public officials conduct public business using public infrastructure, the resulting records might actually belong to the public. Not in Europe. The more powerful the official, the more private the public business becomes.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Trump About To Open the EU Piggybank Audit

On Friday evening Donald Trump announced that the United States will immediately open a Section 301 investigation into the European Union’s practice of fining American technology companies. While the rest of the developed world argues about the next generation of AI, the European Union is proudly pioneering the controlled degradation of its own digital services.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.

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vlgr Jul 23, 2026

Save Europe Act Is Racist and Goes Against European Values

Brussels has spoken. The European Commission has officially refused to register the Save Europe Act as a European Citizens’ Initiative. The reason is clear and final: wanting Europe to remain European is racist.

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vlgr Jul 19, 2026

Do You Feel Like a Citizen of the State We Have Not Officially Created Yet?

“Do you feel like a citizen of the EU?” the European Parliament asked. “A large majority of Europeans do.” This is excellent news for an institution whose long-term political project depends upon Europeans gradually forgetting that the European Union is still formally a union of sovereign countries rather than a sovereign country of its own.