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Republicans propose ban on municipal broadband

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

Republicans propose to give Americans better internet bandwidth by prohibiting cities from helping out with municipal broadband.

Plutocratist politicians will propose dooH niboR as the solution to any problem whatsoever.

Serious symptoms after Covid-19 "recovery"

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

A study found that 30% of patients with mild cases of Covid-19 had serious symptoms for months after their "recovery".

The wrecker decided to expose tens of millions of Americans to Covid-19 when he could have chosen not to. That will mean millions of people partially or wholly disabled months from now.

Condemnation for parents doing the best possible

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

The US must stop condemning parents for "neglecting" their children when they are doing the best possible given their poverty.

Conflicting proposal to enforce freedom of speech

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

A UK minister's proposal to legally enforce freedom of speech in universities conflicts with his plan to label criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine as "antisemitism".

When businesses run their own inspection

mercredi 24 février 2021 à 01:00

The "new idea" of letting pork processing plants do their own inspections was tried experimentally under Obama. In 2014-2017, the plants which did this had twice as many violations as other plants.

Does this surprise you? It does not surprise me. In general, the reason businesses lobby to run their own inspection is so that they can do a quick and sloppy job of it, and sell things they should have discarded. The result can spread disease.

In general, the reason why government agencies accept these proposals from business is that they are trying to serve business rather than serve the public. A good government would teach its officials to laugh those lobbyists out of the office.

The US should simply cancel this bad policy.