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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Sex education

dimanche 16 août 2015 à 02:00

Proper sex education helps teenagers start thinking about sex in a deeper way than porn suggests.

School-to-prison pipeline

dimanche 16 août 2015 à 02:00

The entrance to the school-to-prison pipeline: black children that misbehave get punished, while comparable white children get therapy.

Partly it's because black children are segregated and go to schools that can't afford therapy. Partly it's due to racism (perhaps unconscious).

Consumer capitalism

dimanche 16 août 2015 à 02:00

A large part of consumer capitalism is based on exploiting foolishness.

It would be a mistake to try to divide all transactions into "fool" or "not fool". If you want a TV and you spend $1000 when a $600 model would have been good enough, maybe that was 40% fool and 60% non-fool.

On the other hand, if that TV snoops on you, it was 100% fool.

Shell stops funding ALEC

dimanche 16 août 2015 à 02:00

Shell has yielded to public pressure and stopped funding ALEC.

Anti-"piracy" harassment

dimanche 16 août 2015 à 02:00

An anti-"piracy" harassment group is attacking everyone that has published a video with "pixels" in the title.

While these excesses are risible, let us not be distracted from the wrong of attacking people who share. "Piracy", for sharing, is a propaganda term of the enemy and we should not use it.