Category: Outrage
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GERB wants a national ID app to “protect” your kids
Opposition party GERB has proposed banning social media for anyone under 16, with a mandatory “digital wallet” app to verify every user’s age before they can even sign up. Miss the age cut and your account gets shut down, VPN or not. MP Kostadin Angelov is calling it protection from a “digital addiction.” Starting with…
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“You’ll own nothing and be happy”
This might read like a niche complaint about gaming and PC hardware, but the pattern underneath it touches almost anyone who has ever bought a movie, a game, or a piece of software they assumed was theirs. This is about how much control people have over things they have already paid for. Sony confirmed it…
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Bulgaria’s summer ritual: We kill each other on the roads, then we forget
In the span of about three weeks this month, the news here has read like a casualty list. Four people dead on Chelopeshko Shose after two men raced each other into a city bus at around 150 km/h. Two teenagers killed near Mezdra by a kid with five months of driving experience. Two nine-year-old boys…
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She won Eurovision. Some Bulgarians still aren’t happy about it
Last week, I mentioned DARA, which was not really what I planned to cover in this newsletter. I genuinely supported her, but not because of her music or style; I also don’t even care for Eurovision. But the online discourse got to me (😁) and also her personal story actually made me root for her.…