Die Europäischen Rechten: Selbstzerlegung kurz vor der Wahl
Die extremere der beiden rechten Fraktionen im EU-Parlament, die ID, verkleinert sich mit dem Ausschluss der AfD. Wo diese sich im Fraktionsgefüge künftig einordnen wird, ist noch ungewiss. Von A. Meyer-Feist.
Die Rechtsaußen-Fraktion „Identität und Demokratie“ (#ID) im #Europaparlament hat die #AfD-Delegation mit sofortiger Wirkung ausgeschlossen. Ein entsprechender Antrag von Fraktionschef Marco Zanni habe die erforderliche Unterstützung bekommen, hieß es in Brüssel. https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-7864.html
This marks the 10th anniversary of the Foilies - awards given to the public agencies responsible for the most egregious, absurd and outrageous defiance of freedom of information requests:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The Foilies are awarded by @eff and @muckrock. This year's honorees are an entire Coen Brothers movie's worth of bizarre excuses and shenanigans. Top honors (the "Not-So-Magic-Word" award) goes to Augusta County, VA::
The staff at the Augusta County Sheriff's office somehow got the impression that if they wants to make an official communique immune to a public records request, all they had to do was add the words "NO FOIA" to the memo.
Needless to say, the law doesn't work this way. When a county employee tipped Breaking Through News to this practice, the organization naturally filed a request for every county document containing the phrase "NO FOIA." Given that the county's employees had thoughtfully tagged every document they suspected would get them into trouble with these words, it's no wonder that the request delivered a bumper-crop of news stories of incompetence and corruption:
Why is it so important for our identities to be subsidiaries of governments instead of corporations? Really, our identities should be subsidiaries of absolutely nothing. Actual first-class citizens using some kind of decentralised DNS or DID.
I guess I don't have a problem with the option being there for those who want it though.
@Hyolobrika
> Why is it so important for our identities to be subsidiaries of governments instead of corporations?
That's a bit of a leading question. Short answer, it isn't. Another comment linked me to an NGO doing it in SA. But right now they're the institutions issuing birth certificates.
> Actual first-class citizens using some kind of decentralised DNS or DID
If this ever becomes a viable way to identity yourself online to public services, I'll be the first to celebrate and promote it.
#ALERTA#Köln
“ #Lukreta eine rechtsextreme und antifeministische "Frauenbewegung" veranstaltet am 09.03.2024 einen sogenannten Frauenkongress in Köln.
['Großraum Köln']
Der genaue Ort ist nicht bekannt, die Anmeldung läuft über die Mailadresse von #noafd Maximilian Krah [Server im EU Parlament].
” #id#ib
/ ZDF weiss Bescheid, vielleicht kann @hyperjinx wdr Kolleg*innen informieren, finde hier sonst niemand.
If you know how to code, but not where, may I suggest you look into contribution to iD, the web client for editing #OpenStreetMap? Lots of people spend a ton of time using #iD to make this "open source" map better for everyone! But development of iD is going slow, and there's so much time wasted by all the editors on things that could be done better and faster, if the editor had more contributors to help fix issues.