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File sharing

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

In places where ISPs make users pay to access anything but Facebook and/or Wikipedia, they use those services for file sharing.

File sharing is good, and ought to be legal. Shame on that article for supporting the publishers' smear campaign by calling sharing "piracy".

I understand that Wikipedia does not want to be a site for file sharing. Besides which, it has a specific purpose, and letting people post whatever they wish is not it. Still, they should not support the smear campaign.

It is also a mistake to refer to works as "content".

Tax dodging

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

Germany is proposing measures that would make offshore tax evasion somewhat more difficult.

However, this would have no effect on tax dodging which is lawful.

The "New Jim Crow"

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

Obama Is Chipping Away at the 'New Jim Crow'. But More Needs To Be Done.

Coverup of Hillsborough killings

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

The UK thugs have often collaborated hand with the rich and their media outlets against the rest of Britain. The coverup and denial of the Hillsborough killings were an example.

China imposes strict rules on foreign NGOs

samedi 30 avril 2016 à 02:00

China has imposed strict rules on foreign NGOs that operate in China to make it hard for them to finance local organizations.