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Replacing the FISA court

mercredi 4 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Chelsea Manning calls for replacing the FISA court with courts that will make it their mission to resist unreasonable searches.

Limiting access to digital dossiers is not sufficient to protect whistleblowers from being identified. We need to redesign digital systems so that they don't collect digital dossiers, except about court-designated targets.

Selling "smart guns" in the US

mercredi 4 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Companies that try to sell "smart guns" (with access control) in the US have faced violent threats.

The access control in these guns is not DRM, because it is under the control of the gun owner.

Banned book in Ukrainian library

mercredi 4 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Russia says it arrested the director of the Ukrainian library because it had a banned book. The deputy director says that the banned book in question was not theirs; that Russian thugs planted it to frame them.

We don't need to ask which one is telling the truth, because the Russian state is wrong either way. It is wrong to ban books.

Birth control education

mercredi 4 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Non-extremist imams in Afghanistan teach the use of birth control.

Jewish-Arab peace

mercredi 4 novembre 2015 à 01:00

Calling for a Jewish-Arab peace and justice party in Israel.