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Suspended for helping a sick classmate

jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Anthony Ruelas was suspended from school for carrying a sick student to the nurse's office. The other student was having a severe asthma attack.

The management of that school needs to be replaced with someone who realizes that obedience is not the highest priority in life.

Punishment without conviction

jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 01:00

The UK allows severe punishment without conviction: a man has been ordered to notify the thugs 24 hours before having sex with a woman, and must give her full identification.

If a woman is attracted to him, those demands would surely put her off. If he pays a prostitute, the prostitute won't want to give that information. In effect, the man has been forbidden to have sex (except underground).

Study corrupted by UK government

jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 01:00

It appears the UK government corrupted a supposedly objective study about the feasibility of allowing Chagossians to return to the Chagos Islands.

Copyright law reform

jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 01:00

The European Parliament proposed some reforms to copyright law but they fail to touch the great injustices such as DRM, the war on sharing, and the insanely long duration of copyright.

I can't feel much gratification from the support for "open source" since it avoids raising the question as an ethical issue.

Chinese repression

jeudi 28 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Nanfu Wang made a film about a Chinese human rights defender and experienced repression directly.