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Undermine network neutrality

dimanche 14 juin 2015 à 14:00

The European Commission is pushing a "compromise" to undermine network neutrality.

I suppose they mean that the citizens should cede rights to "compromise" with the desires of the ISPs. The whole idea is misguided, and reflects the nondemocratic nature of the European Commission.

Global heating

dimanche 14 juin 2015 à 14:00

People who have children tend to downgrade their concern about global heating. They don't want to think about how their children will make the problem worse, or what they are probably condemning those children to suffer.

Teachers

dimanche 14 juin 2015 à 14:00

If teachers are aware that a student comes from a poor family, they tend to lower their estimate of that student's abilities.

Unconscious bias also operates based on gender roles: teachers systematically underestimate how good girls are at math.

Order arrest of the thug

dimanche 14 juin 2015 à 14:00

Citizens have petitioned a judge to order arrest of the thug that shot Tamar Rice dead.

Massive surveillance in US

dimanche 14 juin 2015 à 14:00

The Senate is moving to expand massive surveillance by "allowing" companies to give any amount of personal data to the US government "voluntarily".

We can imagine that the government has ways to make them volunteer.