cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73794250

Travelers entering the U.S. are having their devices checked more than ever, and that number's only going up.

Europe’s largest residential landlord is set to lose €8.4bn (£7bn) as a result of plans by leftwing political party Die Linke to bring more than 140,000 Berlin flats into public ownership.

The real estate company Vonovia, which owns roughly 130,000 apartments in the city and 528,000 across Europe, would be the most affected by the plans, with 120,000 of its apartments set to be put into public ownership.

Die Linke, which won Berlin’s state elections in September, has agreed to talks with the city’s Greens and Social Democrats as part of plans to transfer ownership of flats from companies that own more than 10,000 apartments, with the legislation scheduled to be brought forward in 2028.

Excuse me, but why do we allow companies to own flats at all? Let alone a staggering 10 000 of them? What a joke.

Tbh I doubt this legislation will go through. These firms havevtoo much money to not squash it in some way. Still, it's good they are trying.

Found this on another "social" network - and thought I'd share with you, as I think the principle is pretty intriguing.

The article itself reads a bit sloppy - but explains what's going on quite well imo.

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But Ofcom found that “at a total level there was no significant change in the proportion of children encountering harmful content over the first nine months after the children’s safety duties came into force in July 2025”.

Examples of harms included children being shown the murder of Charlie Kirk, graphic pornography and weapon-related content making them feel unsafe in their schools and neighbourhoods. Personalised recommendation feeds powered by “for you” algorithms were repeatedly found by Ofcom to be at the root of the continuing tide of harmful material.

“Tech companies have had months to act, yet too many platforms are still built to keep children hooked with their algorithms continuing to push harmful content to their young users,” she said. “We urgently need stronger action from tech companies to rein in features that drive harm to children and stop putting business interests over their safety obligations.”

If you don't start fining them, they won't improve. £1000 / day per person.

The regulator is already facing a wave of legal actions from tech companies challenging its powers including the Instagram operator Meta, as well as TikTok and X, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX group. It has warned it risks being “absolutely clobbered legally by deep-pocketed individuals and firms”.

If you're going to enact a law that makes everybody's lives worse and destroys privacy, you might as well do a decent job at what the law is intended for.