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Facebook Ad Ban is another hollow gesture

dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*Facebook Ad Ban on Premature Election Victory Ads Is Yet Another Hollow Gesture.* Because it won't cover premature election victory announcements.

Reversing the wrecker's sabotage of US environmental policies

dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 02:00

What Biden would need to do to reverse the wrecker's sabotage of US environmental policies.

The article says it it would take two years to undo environmental deregulation, handling each regulation separately, and this would face opposition from extractivist companies. I have another idea.

Those channels are specified by laws. It should be possible to pass a law reverting a specified set of regulations to their status as of January 2017. The old regulations that would go back into effect were approved through the official legal process, so it would be hard to challenge them. The process could be finished in a few months.

This would require eliminating the filibuster.

The wrecker is still at it, now eliminating protection for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

If Trump fills RBG's seat

dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*If Trump Fills RBG’s Seat, the Court’s Legitimacy Will Be in Crisis.*

Big oil companies give public impression of change away from fossil fuels

dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Big oil companies are giving a public impression of starting to change away from fossil fuels, but the change is pretty small so far.

Here's the detailed report.

Facebook being pressured to tag criticism of Israel

dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Neve Gordon: Facebook is being pressured to tag criticism of Israel automatically as "anti-Semitism."

The change Facebook recently made, which recognizes the claiming that Jews secretly rule the world as anti-Semitism, is correct. That conspiracy theory is antisemitic, and it is not criticism of Israel's occupation and colonization of Palestine.