Christoph Mayer
@cmmayer.bsky.social
💼 at Bundestag 🌻
| here for tech & digital policy 🤖, transatlantic relations 🇺🇸+🇪🇺 and lots of 🏳️🌈 |
| here for tech & digital policy 🤖, transatlantic relations 🇺🇸+🇪🇺 and lots of 🏳️🌈 |
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Christoph Mayer
@cmmayer.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Visiting the US as an @amgerinst.bsky.social fellow this November gave me the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ activists in Florida, witnessing their resilience in the face of the ongoing queerphobic backlash. Mieko Kuramoto & I analyzed anti-queer rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic ⬇️
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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
October 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Für alle die sich gerade Fragen warum die Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle gerade wieder so brennt.
Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat.
Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...)
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Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat.
Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...)
1/6
Denmark wants to break the Council deadlock on the CSA Regulation, but are they genuinely trying? - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Denmark made the widely-criticised CSA Regulation a priority on the very first day of their Council presidency, but show little willingness to actually find a compromise that will break the three-year...
edri.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Für alle die sich gerade Fragen warum die Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle gerade wieder so brennt.
Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat.
Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...)
1/6
Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat.
Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...)
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Dieses Jahr weht die Pride-Flagge AUF dem Bundestag nicht? Das lassen wir nicht unkommentiert. 🏳️🌈
CSDs werden in Deutschland angegriffen – queerfeindlich & gezielt.
Queeres Leben braucht Sichtbarkeit, Schutz & Sicherheit. Im Pride Month und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr. Dafür setzen wir uns ein. ✊
CSDs werden in Deutschland angegriffen – queerfeindlich & gezielt.
Queeres Leben braucht Sichtbarkeit, Schutz & Sicherheit. Im Pride Month und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr. Dafür setzen wir uns ein. ✊
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dieses Jahr weht die Pride-Flagge AUF dem Bundestag nicht? Das lassen wir nicht unkommentiert. 🏳️🌈
CSDs werden in Deutschland angegriffen – queerfeindlich & gezielt.
Queeres Leben braucht Sichtbarkeit, Schutz & Sicherheit. Im Pride Month und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr. Dafür setzen wir uns ein. ✊
CSDs werden in Deutschland angegriffen – queerfeindlich & gezielt.
Queeres Leben braucht Sichtbarkeit, Schutz & Sicherheit. Im Pride Month und an jedem anderen Tag im Jahr. Dafür setzen wir uns ein. ✊
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Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️
👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support:
➡️an enforcement of existing laws &
➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces.
👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign
👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support:
➡️an enforcement of existing laws &
➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces.
👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign
June 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Facial recognition as allowed by Hungarian laws is a form of mass surveillance⚠️
👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support:
➡️an enforcement of existing laws &
➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces.
👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign
👉 Sign the petition from @algorithmwatch.org, EDRi, @ecnl.bsky.social, HCLU & @liberties.eu to support:
➡️an enforcement of existing laws &
➡️an end to face recognition in public spaces.
👉 algorithmwatch.org/sign
Some professional news ✨
I’ve recently started a new role as chief of staff to @rebecca-lenhard.bsky.social , Member of the Bundestag and spokesperson for digital policy & state modernisation for the Green parliamentary group. 🤖🌻
I’ve recently started a new role as chief of staff to @rebecca-lenhard.bsky.social , Member of the Bundestag and spokesperson for digital policy & state modernisation for the Green parliamentary group. 🤖🌻
May 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Some professional news ✨
I’ve recently started a new role as chief of staff to @rebecca-lenhard.bsky.social , Member of the Bundestag and spokesperson for digital policy & state modernisation for the Green parliamentary group. 🤖🌻
I’ve recently started a new role as chief of staff to @rebecca-lenhard.bsky.social , Member of the Bundestag and spokesperson for digital policy & state modernisation for the Green parliamentary group. 🤖🌻
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Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
www.advocate.com/news/germany...
www.advocate.com/news/germany...
Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
A German official confirmed the government’s alert to The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S.
www.advocate.com/news/germany...
www.advocate.com/news/germany...
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First, it was bathrooms, then sports, and now they’re getting to what they really wanted — the complete erasure of the trans community.
Also, if you think this is going to stop at trans people, you are deeply mistaken.
Also, if you think this is going to stop at trans people, you are deeply mistaken.
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
This is a campaign of eradication.
www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
First, it was bathrooms, then sports, and now they’re getting to what they really wanted — the complete erasure of the trans community.
Also, if you think this is going to stop at trans people, you are deeply mistaken.
Also, if you think this is going to stop at trans people, you are deeply mistaken.
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The biggest threat to European security does not come from Russia but it comes from the far right within its own nation states. All of the defense spending is not going to protect anyone if Trump's and Putin's buddies are voted into office, they consolidate power and erode liberal democracy 1/
March 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The biggest threat to European security does not come from Russia but it comes from the far right within its own nation states. All of the defense spending is not going to protect anyone if Trump's and Putin's buddies are voted into office, they consolidate power and erode liberal democracy 1/
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If you think JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference was about free speech, you're not a serious person.
February 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you think JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference was about free speech, you're not a serious person.
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English version here:
frederike.substack.com/p/the-afds-a...
frederike.substack.com/p/the-afds-a...
The AfD’s AI Delusion: How Germany’s Far Right Fantasizes About AI Replacing Migrants
Just like JD Vance speech in Munich, the AfD’s electoral program is not just inhumane – it’s completely incoherent. This is not a bug, it's a feature.
frederike.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
English version here:
frederike.substack.com/p/the-afds-a...
frederike.substack.com/p/the-afds-a...
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Berlin tonight. 🙏
February 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Berlin tonight. 🙏
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📢 KOMMT ALLE!!
🔥 Mit Musik von #NinaChuba , Mine , Badchieff, Franke Dellé
🔥 Mit wichtigen Worten von Michel Friedman, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social , @emcke.bsky.social, Serpil Unvar, @christophbautz.bsky.social, @jcwagner.bsky.social
...und vielen mehr!
🔥 Mit Musik von #NinaChuba , Mine , Badchieff, Franke Dellé
🔥 Mit wichtigen Worten von Michel Friedman, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social , @emcke.bsky.social, Serpil Unvar, @christophbautz.bsky.social, @jcwagner.bsky.social
...und vielen mehr!
February 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📢 KOMMT ALLE!!
🔥 Mit Musik von #NinaChuba , Mine , Badchieff, Franke Dellé
🔥 Mit wichtigen Worten von Michel Friedman, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social , @emcke.bsky.social, Serpil Unvar, @christophbautz.bsky.social, @jcwagner.bsky.social
...und vielen mehr!
🔥 Mit Musik von #NinaChuba , Mine , Badchieff, Franke Dellé
🔥 Mit wichtigen Worten von Michel Friedman, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social , @emcke.bsky.social, Serpil Unvar, @christophbautz.bsky.social, @jcwagner.bsky.social
...und vielen mehr!
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This is not just breaking a taboo on a day where the Bundestag was supposed to remember the Holocaust, it will backfire for the Conservatives as the pandering to the far right has backfired for the Tories in Britain.
A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany.
Why do people never learn.
A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany.
Why do people never learn.
German immigration motion passes, breaking taboo on cooperation with AfD
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
German immigration motion passes, breaking taboo on cooperation with AfD
Narrow passage of controversial CDU-CSU motion ends longstanding boycott on cooperating with far-right party
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is not just breaking a taboo on a day where the Bundestag was supposed to remember the Holocaust, it will backfire for the Conservatives as the pandering to the far right has backfired for the Tories in Britain.
A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany.
Why do people never learn.
A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany.
Why do people never learn.
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Today at 12, the Bundestag remembers the victims of the Nazi regime. Afterwards, the CDU/CSU will put forward resolutions for mass deportations, making German citizenship revocable for the first time since 1945, and the abolition of dual citizenship, and plans to pass these with Nazi votes.
Heute um 12 errinert der Bundestag die Opfer der NS-Regime. Danach, wird die Union Anträge für Massenabschiebungen, die Widerruflichkeit der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft (zum ersten mal seit 1945), sowie die Abschaffung der doppelten Staatsbürgerschaft, und plant diese mit Nazis zu verabschieden.
January 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Today at 12, the Bundestag remembers the victims of the Nazi regime. Afterwards, the CDU/CSU will put forward resolutions for mass deportations, making German citizenship revocable for the first time since 1945, and the abolition of dual citizenship, and plans to pass these with Nazi votes.
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Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever
Fellowship alert 🚨
With Trump’s 2025 inauguration imminent, transatlantic relations and LGBTQ+ rights face new challenges. Programs like the @amgerinst.bsky.social Fellowship on Building LGBTQ+ Communities are vital for fostering collaboration, sharing strategies, and resisting backlash.
With Trump’s 2025 inauguration imminent, transatlantic relations and LGBTQ+ rights face new challenges. Programs like the @amgerinst.bsky.social Fellowship on Building LGBTQ+ Communities are vital for fostering collaboration, sharing strategies, and resisting backlash.
Building LGBTQ+ Communities in Germany and the United States: Past, Present, and Future
AGI is now accepting applications for year three of a new exchange project. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2025. The AGI three-year project will explore LGBTQ+ community-building in …
americangerman.institute
January 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fellowship alert 🚨
With Trump’s 2025 inauguration imminent, transatlantic relations and LGBTQ+ rights face new challenges. Programs like the @amgerinst.bsky.social Fellowship on Building LGBTQ+ Communities are vital for fostering collaboration, sharing strategies, and resisting backlash.
With Trump’s 2025 inauguration imminent, transatlantic relations and LGBTQ+ rights face new challenges. Programs like the @amgerinst.bsky.social Fellowship on Building LGBTQ+ Communities are vital for fostering collaboration, sharing strategies, and resisting backlash.
Visiting the US as an @amgerinst.bsky.social fellow this November gave me the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ activists in Florida, witnessing their resilience in the face of the ongoing queerphobic backlash. Mieko Kuramoto & I analyzed anti-queer rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic ⬇️
January 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Visiting the US as an @amgerinst.bsky.social fellow this November gave me the opportunity to connect with LGBTQ activists in Florida, witnessing their resilience in the face of the ongoing queerphobic backlash. Mieko Kuramoto & I analyzed anti-queer rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic ⬇️
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Bitte niemand einen Code an Elon Musk geben, ok?
October 1, 2023 at 3:56 PM
Bitte niemand einen Code an Elon Musk geben, ok?