LK Seiling
@lkseiling.bsky.social
DE/EN. 📍 Potsdam / Berlin
coordination of @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, various research at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
among other things: http://zusammenfuergleichstellung.de
coordination of @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social, various research at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
among other things: http://zusammenfuergleichstellung.de
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LK Seiling
@lkseiling.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken?
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
Für alle, die keine Zeit für ~36 Seiten und über 100 Fußnoten im Policy Paper haben, habe ich im Interview mit dem @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kurz erklärt worum es im #DSA geht, welche Rolle Forschungsdatenzugang (#DSA40) spielt und was schulterzuckende US-Plattformen damit zu tun haben ⬇️
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@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good"
www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
In Critical Condition – How To Stabilize Researcher Data Access? | TechPolicy.Press
Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.
www.techpolicy.press
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@lkseiling.bsky.social & @markscott.bsky.social plea in @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a new data access regime emerging from a "generation of decentralized platforms that treat data transparency not as a regulatory burden but as a civic and scientific good"
www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
www.techpolicy.press/in-critical-...
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The most transparent, de-gamified way to do social media would be a “more like this / less like this” interface that nobody else sees. The “like” is pointless here anyway, while sharing is everything.
Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.
techcrunch.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The most transparent, de-gamified way to do social media would be a “more like this / less like this” interface that nobody else sees. The “like” is pointless here anyway, while sharing is everything.
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"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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two for one, nice 😎
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
two for one, nice 😎
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"Gegen vier Uhr morgens drangen Beamt:innen in die Wohnung der syrischen Familie Seleman ein, führten die Geschwister Rouaa (24) und Ibrahim (28) ab und setzten sie in ein Flugzeug. Dabei sollten beide eine Ausbildung antreten. Der Flüchtlingsrat Schleswig-Holstein nennt das „Behördenwahnsinn“.
Abschiebung trotz Ausbildungsvertrag: Aus dem Bett geholt, ins Flugzeug gesetzt
Rouaa und Ibrahim hatten ihre Ausbildungsverträge unterschrieben und hätten damit bis zum Abschluss bleiben dürfen. Trotzdem wurden sie abgeschoben.
taz.de
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Gegen vier Uhr morgens drangen Beamt:innen in die Wohnung der syrischen Familie Seleman ein, führten die Geschwister Rouaa (24) und Ibrahim (28) ab und setzten sie in ein Flugzeug. Dabei sollten beide eine Ausbildung antreten. Der Flüchtlingsrat Schleswig-Holstein nennt das „Behördenwahnsinn“.
The key terms here are:
1) burdensome procedures
2)burdensome tools
While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
1) burdensome procedures
2)burdensome tools
While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
The @ec.europa.eu preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act.
The EC also finds that Meta and TikTok have put in place "burdensome procedures and tools for researchers to request access to public data."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The EC also finds that Meta and TikTok have put in place "burdensome procedures and tools for researchers to request access to public data."
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok and Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
ec.europa.eu
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The key terms here are:
1) burdensome procedures
2)burdensome tools
While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
1) burdensome procedures
2)burdensome tools
While the findings themselves are not public, let's take a closer look 🧵👇
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I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW2025 in Bergen on Tuesday at 2:30PM! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” (in the Bekken room) chaired by @emtseng.bsky.social ☺️
Decentralized social media lets people build custom communities, but what happens when communities interact? New #CSCW2025 work by @s0hw.bsky.social, Priyanka Nanayakkara, and Yan Shvartzshnaider explores how trust — and frictions — shape expectations on the #Fediverse
Who do you trust with your social media data when no one (or everyone) is in charge?
Social media continues to be plagued by concerns around data harvesting, manipulation, and moderation policies on centralized platforms run…
tinyurl.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I’ll be presenting this work at #CSCW2025 in Bergen on Tuesday at 2:30PM! We will be part of the session “Core Concepts in Privacy Research” (in the Bekken room) chaired by @emtseng.bsky.social ☺️
The parsing code and info on the schema based on Activity Streams 2.0 we suggested: gitlab.weizenbaum-institut.de/lukas.seilin...
@lionw.bsky.social's latest paper on data donations: doi.org/10.12758/mda... (follow him for more to come soon!)
@lionw.bsky.social's latest paper on data donations: doi.org/10.12758/mda... (follow him for more to come soon!)
#DigitalNewsDynamics research group present #datadonationsymposium2025
@lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
@lkseiling.bsky.social and Quentin Bukold on an Ontology for digital trace data, me on data donation behavior, and @dscheykopp.bsky.social on our experience with #deinfeeddeinewahl.
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The parsing code and info on the schema based on Activity Streams 2.0 we suggested: gitlab.weizenbaum-institut.de/lukas.seilin...
@lionw.bsky.social's latest paper on data donations: doi.org/10.12758/mda... (follow him for more to come soon!)
@lionw.bsky.social's latest paper on data donations: doi.org/10.12758/mda... (follow him for more to come soon!)
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"Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)" techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/i...
October 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)" techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/i...
Für alle, die keine Zeit für ~36 Seiten und über 100 Fußnoten im Policy Paper haben, habe ich im Interview mit dem @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kurz erklärt worum es im #DSA geht, welche Rolle Forschungsdatenzugang (#DSA40) spielt und was schulterzuckende US-Plattformen damit zu tun haben ⬇️
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor unseres neusten Policy Papers, wie das inmitten geopolitischer Spannungen mit den USA funktionieren kann. #DSA40
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Zum Interview 👉 buff.ly/5zISV6z
Was, wenn die Plattformen einfach mit den Schultern zucken?
Mit dem Digital Services Act versucht die EU ihre Bürger*innen vor den Risiken digitaler Plattformen, großteils US-amerikanischer, zu schützen. Wir sprachen mit LK Seiling, Co-Autor eines neuen…
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
September 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Für alle, die keine Zeit für ~36 Seiten und über 100 Fußnoten im Policy Paper haben, habe ich im Interview mit dem @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social kurz erklärt worum es im #DSA geht, welche Rolle Forschungsdatenzugang (#DSA40) spielt und was schulterzuckende US-Plattformen damit zu tun haben ⬇️
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👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25
➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25
➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗
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Haven't read this paper yet, but something has been on my mind: because diffusion and LLMs were more "discovered" than "invented," the explanations given for how they work, even by folks in the industry building them, are assumptions. Those stories drive AI narratives, and they're usually wrong.
When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is.
Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Haven't read this paper yet, but something has been on my mind: because diffusion and LLMs were more "discovered" than "invented," the explanations given for how they work, even by folks in the industry building them, are assumptions. Those stories drive AI narratives, and they're usually wrong.
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Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers
It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
August 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers
It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)
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We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025.
Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct
Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct
August 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We already have over 100 sign-ups but a few spots are still available for Day 1 of the Data Access Days on research access to platform data under the Digital Services Act (DSA) — happening on 25 September 2025.
Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct
Join us in Berlin! 👉 dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
#DSA40 #DigitalServicesAct
This newsletter does not focus on the ongoing sabre-rattling from across the Atlantic. Instead, we recap all the work we've been doing since the last issue and examples and opportunities for constructive collective engagement around the DSA.
Read here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...
Read here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This newsletter does not focus on the ongoing sabre-rattling from across the Atlantic. Instead, we recap all the work we've been doing since the last issue and examples and opportunities for constructive collective engagement around the DSA.
Read here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...
Read here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/newsletters/...
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Register to the #DSA40 Data Access days today before we reach maximum capacity!
Join us in Berlin, September 25 & 26 - to connect and collaborate around DSA-based data access!
More info here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
Join us in Berlin, September 25 & 26 - to connect and collaborate around DSA-based data access!
More info here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
July 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Register to the #DSA40 Data Access days today before we reach maximum capacity!
Join us in Berlin, September 25 & 26 - to connect and collaborate around DSA-based data access!
More info here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
Join us in Berlin, September 25 & 26 - to connect and collaborate around DSA-based data access!
More info here: dsa40collaboratory.eu/data-access-...
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Was passiert eigentlich, wenn wir uns alle einig werden, dass das, was gerade weltweit grassiert und demokratische Errungenschaften sowie große Teile der Menschheit bedroht, Faschismus ist? Geht dann der antifaschistische Kampf los? Oder ist er dann schon gewonnen?
July 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Was passiert eigentlich, wenn wir uns alle einig werden, dass das, was gerade weltweit grassiert und demokratische Errungenschaften sowie große Teile der Menschheit bedroht, Faschismus ist? Geht dann der antifaschistische Kampf los? Oder ist er dann schon gewonnen?
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War crimes as a form of marketing
Israeli arms firm Rafael could lose EU grant money after posting a PR clip on X in which its drone, the Spike Firefly, killed a man in Gaza.
Israeli arms firm could lose EU funds over Gaza drone-kill video
Israeli arms firm Rafael could lose EU grant money after posting a PR clip on X in which its drone, the Spike Firefly, killed a man in Gaza.
euobserver.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
War crimes as a form of marketing
The U.S. administration is going all in on its AI death cult. It's side-lining the environment and it's own citizens to scale the build out of an over-leveraged technology, while aggressively pushing their technology onto other countries trying to distribute collapse-risk.
The Trump administration's action plan on artificial intelligence calls for slashing regulations across government and easing adoption of the technology broadly, deepening its split with the Biden administration’s focus on AI safety, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
Unpacking Trump’s AI Action Plan: Gutting Rules and Speeding Roll-Out | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's action plan on artificial intelligence calls for slashing regulations and easing rollout of the technology, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
buff.ly
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The U.S. administration is going all in on its AI death cult. It's side-lining the environment and it's own citizens to scale the build out of an over-leveraged technology, while aggressively pushing their technology onto other countries trying to distribute collapse-risk.
Or as I put it in a talk last year:
This is not tech adoption, it is penetration - decidedly masculine, neither consensual nor reflected and it leaves us and our planet injured, if not violated.
f we don't resist, we're - most literally - fucked.
This is not tech adoption, it is penetration - decidedly masculine, neither consensual nor reflected and it leaves us and our planet injured, if not violated.
f we don't resist, we're - most literally - fucked.
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Or as I put it in a talk last year:
This is not tech adoption, it is penetration - decidedly masculine, neither consensual nor reflected and it leaves us and our planet injured, if not violated.
f we don't resist, we're - most literally - fucked.
This is not tech adoption, it is penetration - decidedly masculine, neither consensual nor reflected and it leaves us and our planet injured, if not violated.
f we don't resist, we're - most literally - fucked.
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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
www.wheresyoured.at
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” –
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:
🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️
#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:
🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️
#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss
Das letzte Puzzlestück für den Forschungszugang für nicht öffentlich verfügbare Plattformdaten ist da. Die Aufgaben für DSCs, Forschende und Plattformen sind nun klar verteilt. Die Wissenschaftler:inn...
t1p.de
July 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
„Wer beim Forschungsdatenzugang jetzt liefern muss” –
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:
🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️
#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
@lkseiling.bsky.social, @dscheykopp.bsky.social,
@claesdevreese.bsky.social & @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social heute im @tspbackground.bsky.social:
🔗 t1p.de/zf6pa ⬅️
#dsa @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social
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Meta just blew a hole in a EU plan to tame artificial intelligence models.
Today, the technology giant was the first Big Tech company to come out saying it will not sign the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI.
Today, the technology giant was the first Big Tech company to come out saying it will not sign the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI.
Meta rebuffs EU over AI rules
The code of practice has faced months of fierce lobbying from the tech industry.
ow.ly
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Meta just blew a hole in a EU plan to tame artificial intelligence models.
Today, the technology giant was the first Big Tech company to come out saying it will not sign the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI.
Today, the technology giant was the first Big Tech company to come out saying it will not sign the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI.
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The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.
Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.
W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.
W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
Time To Deliver: Stakeholder Roles In The EU’s Delegated Act On Data Access | TechPolicy.Press
The Delegated Act on data access under the DSA provides much-needed clarity about both the access process and expectations towards the actors involved in it.
www.techpolicy.press
July 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The discussions about big platforms are intense. The systemic risks are real.
Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.
W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
Now the #DSA Delegated Act is finally here to ensure data access for researchers. Time to put this system to work.
W @lkseiling.bsky.social, we show how @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/time-to-deli...
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Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern brandgefährlich
Die Rückkehr der "Transvestiten-Karteien" muss verhindert werden
Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern...
www.queer.de
July 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern brandgefährlich