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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
My article on seven months ago on why Europe would struggle to fight Covid

quillette.com/2020/03/14/con…
Seven months later Europe is once again the epicentre of the pandemic
Yesterday: 117 deaths in France, 80 in Spain, 143 in the UK, 41 in Italy, 35 in the Netherlands, 63 in Poland, 55 in Czechia, 68 in Romania, 20 in Belgium...
Italy just recorded new 7,332 covid cases over the last 24 hours — highest daily mark of the pandemic.

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15 Oct
Those people in Europe arguing for strong content moderation in tech platforms should look to yesterday’s episode as a cautionary tale. Sure we want to go down this road?
Imagine for the sake of argument that the rule announced by Twitter was applied across the ten largest platforms. Information about a public official not authorized by him could not be accessed on Google, FB, Amazon, Twitter, etc, etc
Could we still call this society a democracy? What would distinguish it from, say, China of the critical matter of free speech and information access?
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15 Oct
Twitter has now explained its decision, hours later, and the explanation is as stunning as the original act. First, it claims information whose obtainment has not been authorized - by those affected by it? - cannot be communicated on the platform
This by itself would undermine the foundations of a democratic society: the powerful and the privileged would be safely protected from every kind of scrutiny
Second, the cynicism is extraordinary: a network built and organized for the dissemination of unauthorized content has discovered it has reservations about it only in the case where the political stakes are exceptionally high
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12 Oct
This is important
Well, if you pay fixers in Syria $250 a day to find you the story you want, they will find it - but none of this has anything to do with journalism
Terrorism coverage in the US was gradually turned into Hollywood scriptwriting - with devastating consequences for Muslims worldwide but also for US foreign policy
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10 Oct
What is the opposite of a simulacrum? Not an imaginary copy of reality, but a piece of reality that copies the imagination. Because Baudrillard was wrong. We do not live in the age of simulacra. We live in the age of their opposite
Americans no longer ask whether a book or television series would work in real life, they ask whether real life would work in a movie or television series.
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3 Oct
Josep Borrell about to speak in La Toja. Should be an interesting debrief on Turkey and Belarus
Borrell like almost every voice from the Commission speaks of Europe as a third model between China and the US. @RobinNiblett would not approve
Two main geopolitical questions today for Borrell: US-China rivalry and the future of Africa
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3 Oct
We now reached the point where German politicians who took a hard line against refugees are confessing they were wrong and apologizing to Merkel

spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
While several politicians in Europe take aim at Islam as a religion, Merkel welcomes a million Syrian and Afghan refugees and turns it into a huge, undisputed national success
Thanks for informing me Söder is an opportunist politician, a big beast of CSU. That was the point. When someone like Soder apologizes you know what the politics is and who won
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