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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 10, 2026

CHAT CONTROL V. – Why and How to Resist the Identified Internet (last article not being satire here)

The familiar response to privacy concerns is that people who have done nothing wrong should have nothing to hide. That argument reverses the intended dynamics between the individual and the state. Citizens are expected to trust governments, technology companies and verification contractors with increasingly sensitive identity data, although all of them have demonstrated that their systems can be breached, misconfigured or exploited.

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vlgr Jul 10, 2026

CHAT CONTROL IV. – From Burning Books to Blocking Readers - WE ARE HERE

Geogating the Internet, Deciding What People Are Allowed to See, Digital Fingerprint tied to OS, Linux and Refusal of Service are already alive and kicking.

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vlgr Jul 9, 2026

Wikipedia Finally Embraces The Correct Worldview After Banning Troublesome Founder

Wikipedia has taken decisive action to protect its creative freedom. Co-founder Larry Sanger announced that he had been permanently banned from editing the site he named and helped launch in 2001.

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vlgr Jun 18, 2026

Congratulations, Europe: The Internet Now Has VIP Seating

The EU has looked at the open internet, that messy little miracle where citizens could reach information freely, and bravely decided it needed more velvet ropes, “lawful content” footnotes, and a technical architecture that can separate the fast, clean, important traffic from the digital peasants still trying to read a website without being processed like livestock.

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vlgr Jun 15, 2026

Parenting the Whole Nation: Sir Keir, the Internet Nanny

Sir Keir descends gently over Britain with an umbrella, a carpet bag full of age-verification rules and face scans, and the serene conviction that every citizen is simply a naughty child waiting for state-approved supervision.

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vlgr May 22, 2026

Google Publishes Browser Exploit Early So Hackers Don’t Have To Waste Time Finding It Themselves

Google released working exploit details for a serious Chromium vulnerability before offering a fix, possibly turning your $2,000 gaming PC into a loyal, always-on foot soldier for whoever feels like borrowing your bandwidth.

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vlgr May 14, 2026

The Great Firewall of Europe: How Brussels Plans to Turn Your “Voluntary” Bluesky Clone into a Government-Tied Digital Soul

Welcome, friends, to the Great Firewall of Europe - not the crude Chinese kind with DNS poisoning, but a sophisticated, bureaucratic, cookie-banner-covered soft wall built on “voluntary” infrastructure, device attestation, and the gentle threat of losing access to your bank account if you don’t play along.

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vlgr May 3, 2026

EU’s “Unhackable” Digital ID App Teaches Continent’s Children Command Line Hacking, Officials Declare Victory for Child Safety

Brussels celebrates as 8-year-olds master rm, adb shell, and config file wizardry to bypass the very system designed to protect them - while adults lose VPNs and anonymity forever.

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vlgr Apr 5, 2026

EURO OFFICE | EU Digital Sovereignty Masterstroke

Nextcloud, IONOS, Proton and friends have launched Euro-Office – a glorious hard fork of OnlyOffice, rebranded as Europe’s sovereign Microsoft killer.