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Tax dodging

jeudi 24 juin 2021 à 02:00

Let's stop presuming that all tax dodging by the rich is lawful.

Much of it may be lawful. When corporations route their profits through a country where the tax rate is zero, it may be lawful. That is no excuse morally, of course — those laws must be changed.

However, the purpose of using tax havens to hide who really gets the money is so that someone can commit tax evasion, and that is presumably a crime.

The article calls for investigating rich cheaters, and changing laws so that it is possible to nail them.

For security reasons

jeudi 24 juin 2021 à 02:00

Apple says it restricts users for their own good, to protect them from "security risk".

Apple is using the usual narrow definition of "security" — the danger that third parties might attack the user. However, Apple's own software mistreats users in several ways, and that is bad security, using a broader and deeper sense of "security".

Paramilitary training for Khashoggi killers

jeudi 24 juin 2021 à 02:00

*Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year.*

Failure of British state schools

mercredi 23 juin 2021 à 02:00

Tories blame the failure of British state schools on "decades" of bad policies, but the policy under funding schools, and food and shelter for the students in them, was started by the Tories in 2010.

It is still true: the Tories are lower than vermin.

Amazon's tight control of workers

mercredi 23 juin 2021 à 02:00

Amazon must eliminate the tight control that treats workers as robots, and injures them along the way.

Please don't buy from Amazon. When people buy things for me, I ask them to please not buy from Amazon.