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MPAA seeks extreme court orders

vendredi 14 août 2015 à 02:00

Movie companies (acting through the MPAA) are asking for extremely broad court orders cutting off sites from most forms of internet activity in the US.

TPP's unjust copyright provisions

vendredi 14 août 2015 à 02:00

A recent leak shows that the TPP still has many unjust copyright provisions that would deny rights to the people of countries that sign.

Most of these provisions would not affect the US, which already has the unjust laws in question. But the TPP would be one more obstacle to changing those unjust laws, which we must do. So we must not adopt the TPP.

I urge people to avoid the mistake of using the term "digital locks" to refer to DRM.

See http://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

BART's "suspicious" activity app

vendredi 14 août 2015 à 02:00

BART has published an app for reporting "suspicious" activity. It has the effect of focusing the (perhaps unconscious) racism of passengers.

In addition, the app is surely nonfree software, thus directly unjust.

US trade treaties

vendredi 14 août 2015 à 02:00

Joseph Stiglitz: US trade treaties would block developing countries from making offered outside investment benefit their people.

London Underground strike

vendredi 14 août 2015 à 02:00

Explaining why the staff of the London Underground are on strike.

If trains and buses and taxis were driverless, that would solve the problem of driver strikes. But how would you propose to deal with the problem of massive unemployment?