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The DMCA takedown system

vendredi 10 juin 2016 à 02:00

The Register of Copyrights is supporting Hollywood's worldwide campaign to impose something even worse than the censorship-ridden DMCA takedown system. This would require computers to block fair use on internet platforms, even though nominally people would still have that right.

Fifteen years ago there was a strong campaign to pin back the wrongs of the DMCA, with some supporters in Congress. This campaign has fizzled away. The lack of a campaign for improvement weakens our resistance to this attempt to make it worse.

Eradication of AIDS

vendredi 10 juin 2016 à 02:00

"It isn't lack of drugs preventing us eradicating AIDS, but inequality."

The UN talks of seeking to eliminate HIV, but refuses to acknowledge groups such as gay men, sex workers and intravenous drug users which it would have to support so as to achieve that goal.

Keep cats indoors

vendredi 10 juin 2016 à 02:00

You may like cats, but don't let them outdoors! Cats kill millions of wild birds.

"Gene-drive" organisms

vendredi 10 juin 2016 à 02:00

'Gene-Drive' Organisms Require Far More Research, because of danger to various wildlife.

Schemes for biological control of pests have often backfired.

Gene drives raise issues beyond the danger of extinctions. There are also militarization, food security, and commercial power.

Trump inspires school bullies

vendredi 10 juin 2016 à 02:00

Trump inspires school bullies all across the US.

Trump is a school bully that never grew out of it.