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Attack on human rights

mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 02:00

Covid-19 has provided an opportunity and excuse for many countries to attack traditional human rights on the Internet.

This is in addition to the subjugating effect of pushing people to use nonfree software.

Electoral Coup

mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 02:00

*To Stop an Electoral Coup, Study What Went Wrong in the 2000 Florida Recount.*

Keep in mind that the only reason this recount was necessary is because the Republicans had cheated massively through voter suppression, as revealed by Greg Palast.

Freely share collections

mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 02:00

Wikimedia calls on museums to digitize their collections and to allow the digital works, when not restricted by private copyrights, to be freely shared.

Those that are restricted by private copyrights should be shared too, because forbidden sharing is better than no sharing.

In the trash

mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 02:00

When people return products to Amazon, in many cases Amazon doesn't bother to unpack them and put them on the shelf. It puts them in the trash.

James Bond

mardi 20 octobre 2020 à 02:00

The company that makes James Bond films gets millions in subsidies from the UK and pays no tax in the UK, since the profit from the films is all assigned to other companies in other countries.

If the UK wants to pay, in normal times, for people to do work, why not pay them to do work that the public needs, such as medical care for the NHS and home assistance for people who are sick or handicapped?

Under my global progressive tax scheme, those companies would be treated as one entity for computing its tax rate, and the UK part would pay that rate on its gross income.