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Urgent: Block Gorsuch

vendredi 10 février 2017 à 01:00

US citizens: call on the Senate to block Gorsuch.

Bill to limit DMCA

jeudi 9 février 2017 à 01:00

A bill in Congress would reduce the scope of the DMCA's prohibition on breaking all sorts of digital handcuffs. This would reduce the injustice, but that part of the DMCA is entirely unjust and should be repealed entirely. DRM is an injustice and the government should help us get rid of it.

This is pertinent again because this bill has been reintroduced in the new congress.

Israel's colonial empire

jeudi 9 février 2017 à 01:00

Israel is one of the last states to maintain a colonial empire. Others include Indonesia, in West Papua, and Morocco, in Western Sahara.

Unemployed Americans

jeudi 9 février 2017 à 01:00

Federal Reserve heads mocked unemployed Americans in a meeting, in effect blaming them for suffering from macroeconomic circumstances. It's convenient for plutocrats to have high unemployment, since that makes workers desperate and easy to abuse and easy to cheat.

We need a government that will be on our side against the banksters (and other rich and powerful individuals and businesses).

Facebook and fake news

jeudi 9 février 2017 à 01:00

Facebook has taken a positive step to avoid boosting fake news. Despite this, many reasons remain to refuse to be used by Facebook. Sad to say, research is advancing on generating fake audio in someone's voice, and fake video using someone's face.