Two important books about the #Internet have just been published. Choose depending on your preference for #English or #Canadian #communication style:

Tim Berners Lee @timbl "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

or Cory Doctorow @pluralistic "Welcome to the Enshitternet!"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

#Amazon #Facebook #Meta #Google

Meta’s decision to ban ads about politics, elections, and social issues on their platforms like Facebook and Instagram in the EU is now implemented.

This is the new policy. Any ad about fx elections, civil rights, economy, health, climate, immigration, or foreign policy is now (presumably) banned.

#advertising #democracy #platform #Facebook #instagram #meta

Je propose qu'on arrête d'utiliser #GAFAM et qu'on le remplace par #MAGAM pour insister un peu plus sur le virage autoritaire des #Meta #Apple #Google #Amazon et #Microsoft.

Une belle épine dans le pied de Zuckerberg :

Aux Pays-Bas, les algorithmes ne feront plus la loi sur Facebook ou Instagram

Meta doit proposer à ses utilisateurs aux Pays-Bas une option sans algorithme permettant aux utilisateurs de définir un fil d'actualité chronologique par défaut, a statué un tribunal d'Amsterdam jeudi

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/d-un-monde-a-l-autre/aux-pays-bas-les-algorithmes-ne-feront-plus-la-loi-sur-facebook-ou-instagram_7500808.html

#Internet
#Algorthmes
#Meta
#Facebook
#Instagram

Une belle épine dans le pied de Zuckerberg :

Aux Pays-Bas, les algorithmes ne feront plus la loi sur Facebook ou Instagram

Meta doit proposer à ses utilisateurs aux Pays-Bas une option sans algorithme permettant aux utilisateurs de définir un fil d'actualité chronologique par défaut, a statué un tribunal d'Amsterdam jeudi

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/d-un-monde-a-l-autre/aux-pays-bas-les-algorithmes-ne-feront-plus-la-loi-sur-facebook-ou-instagram_7500808.html

#Internet
#Algorthmes
#Meta
#Facebook
#Instagram

Dutch digital rights organization Bits of Freedom @bitsoffreedom sues Meta and wins!

Amsterdam court rules Meta is acting in violation of the Digital Services Act. The way Meta has designed its platforms constitutes “a significant disruption of the autonomy of Facebook and Instagram users.” The judge orders Meta to adjust its apps so that the user’s choice is preserved, even when the user navigates to another section or restarts the app

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/judge-in-the-bits-of-freedom-vs-meta-lawsuit-meta-must-respect-users-choice/

#EU #DSA #Meta #digitalrights

Dutch digital rights organization Bits of Freedom @bitsoffreedom sues Meta and wins!

Amsterdam court rules Meta is acting in violation of the Digital Services Act. The way Meta has designed its platforms constitutes “a significant disruption of the autonomy of Facebook and Instagram users.” The judge orders Meta to adjust its apps so that the user’s choice is preserved, even when the user navigates to another section or restarts the app

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/judge-in-the-bits-of-freedom-vs-meta-lawsuit-meta-must-respect-users-choice/

#EU #DSA #Meta #digitalrights