Many European countries (at least the one I live in) have mandatory registration of residences which doubles as voter registration. In my country only homeless people and I think citizens living abroad have to explicitly register to vote.

My understanding is that this is not so in the US, the government doesn't reliably know where people currently live and whether they are entitled to vote, so most people have to register to vote.

First past the post isn't a good system, no.

But Musk has more recently embraced conservative politics, especially the issue of free speech. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, rebranded it to X, and has dismantled many of the checks and balances meant to limit hateful speech and misinformation on the platform.

Why is free speech a conservative cause nowadays? It should not be.

the back button works fine for me here

Yes, so much this! I always believed that in the mobile internet era it would still be like this except we would be able to access it everywhere. Instead all we have is "platforms". 🙁😡

Is this really such an obscure term in English? I definitely remember hearing it in school here in Austria, perhaps in the context of the November pogroms of 1938, but may have been from other contexts too; I don't remember the details.

The Internet has never been as large and diverse as it is now. In the 2000s Wikipedia was often the only place where you could find generally useful information about the world on the Internet, now everything in it plus many other things can be found on many other websites competing for algorithmic attention.

The real thing about today's Internet is that on it, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much, much of which will never be shown to very many people because of the algorithms of search engines or social media recommendation systems. I don't do a lot of "social media" and always find it weird to hear about personalities there who apparently have thousands or millions of followers but whom I have never heard of before.

Look up notepadqq, these guys are doing a Qt port. But you can also use Kate or VSCodium, these are pretty similar if not better.

Ja auch aber außerdem ist es https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZARA_%E2%80%93_Zivilcourage_und_Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit

which one tho

Current government right now? I don't remember any time when French politicians were friendly to the free and open Internet. Used to be that copyright was the main concern, nowadays not anymore.

Where in Europe is that? Not in Austria. Passports, driver's licenses and personal identity cards all cost money. For a long time my only ID card was my passport, so I used that to vote, but now I have a driver's license.