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Recognition technology

mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Advances in recognition technology threaten to enable tracking people easily by cameras through recognizing their faces or irises.

There is no easy solution to this problem, but since it threatens oppression that can make democracy ineffective, it justifies the cost of a difficult solution.

MPAA Funds Pro-Copyright Scholars

mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 01:00

MPAA Funds Pro-Copyright Scholars to Influence Politics.

War on sites that facilitate sharing

mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The copyright industry's war on sites that facilitate sharing causes harm to users even when not entirely successful.

Please do not use our enemies' smear term, "piracy", to refer to sharing.

Cocaine in "legitimate" capital markets

mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 01:00

"Legitimate" capital markets are thoroughly hooked on cocaine; in laundering drug money, London is more important than the Cayman Islands.

System of bail in the US

mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The system of bail in the US pressures poor people to plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit — or else it puts them in debt.