Samuli Melart
@selmel.bsky.social
Doctoral candidate researcher in law @ University of Turku. Regulation and governance; copyright, legitimacy, participatory internet culture and video games, among others.
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Vertaisarvioija laittoi kässäriin useita kommentteja tyyliin "ChatGPT sanoi tästä että..." 🤦♂️
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Vertaisarvioija laittoi kässäriin useita kommentteja tyyliin "ChatGPT sanoi tästä että..." 🤦♂️
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For more than a decade, companies dependant on data hoarding as a business model have reminded us that there is nothing we can do to stop the practice and we cannot have presumptions of privacy. It should not be news that most of us took this for granted.
SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM
For more than a decade, companies dependant on data hoarding as a business model have reminded us that there is nothing we can do to stop the practice and we cannot have presumptions of privacy. It should not be news that most of us took this for granted.
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DC Circuit affirms that only humans, not AI, can create copyrightable works. [Well, corporations can too, but never mind that]
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
DC Circuit affirms that only humans, not AI, can create copyrightable works. [Well, corporations can too, but never mind that]
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
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What US and Russia are doing in respect of Ukraine is in clear breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which is a legally binding treaty concerning security assurances to Ukraine that gave up its nuclear weapons. As a party to the treaty, UK has special responsibility treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...
treaties.un.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What US and Russia are doing in respect of Ukraine is in clear breach of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which is a legally binding treaty concerning security assurances to Ukraine that gave up its nuclear weapons. As a party to the treaty, UK has special responsibility treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...
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Miksi koulutus paskeentuu? Suomalaistenkin hellimä tasa-arvoinen koulupolku on pahasti rapautumassa ja syy siihen on, tadaa... uusliberalismi ja siihen läheisesti kytkeytyvä managerialismi. Voitaisko sanoa tää ääneen ja sitten muuttaa asioita paremmiksi? Kiitos! 💝
February 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Miksi koulutus paskeentuu? Suomalaistenkin hellimä tasa-arvoinen koulupolku on pahasti rapautumassa ja syy siihen on, tadaa... uusliberalismi ja siihen läheisesti kytkeytyvä managerialismi. Voitaisko sanoa tää ääneen ja sitten muuttaa asioita paremmiksi? Kiitos! 💝
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So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.
This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.
This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"The court decision marks one of the first major judicial tests of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), raising fresh questions about X’s compliance with European regulations ahead of Germany’s federal election."
#NaziMusk
#NaziMusk
German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform
Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.
www.politico.eu
February 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The court decision marks one of the first major judicial tests of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), raising fresh questions about X’s compliance with European regulations ahead of Germany’s federal election."
#NaziMusk
#NaziMusk
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If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...
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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
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The bill has been criticized by one consumer advocate group as a "censorious site-blocking" measure "that turns broadband providers into copyright police at Americans' expense."
Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
Proposed US law slammed as “censorious” and an “Internet kill switch.”…
arstechnica.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The bill has been criticized by one consumer advocate group as a "censorious site-blocking" measure "that turns broadband providers into copyright police at Americans' expense."
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Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...
Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged
If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …
www.techdirt.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...
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First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released, by Marianna Foerg on the Kluwer Copyright Blog
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/16/f...
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/16/f...
First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released - Kluwer Copyright Blog
The European AI Office is currently facilitating the drawing-up of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (the “Code”). The European Commission published the first draft of the Code on 14 November 20...
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com
December 17, 2024 at 10:19 AM
First draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice has been released, by Marianna Foerg on the Kluwer Copyright Blog
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/16/f...
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/16/f...