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Debt in developing countries

mardi 18 août 2020 à 02:00

*Debt in developing countries has doubled in less than a decade.*

Little by little it converts the population of those countries into debt slaves.

Public health agency

mardi 18 août 2020 à 02:00

The Tory ministers who sidelined England's public health agency, and directed the response to Covid-19 inconsistently themselves, now plan to abolish it.

Working sick

mardi 18 août 2020 à 02:00

Workers that make sandwiches in England get sick pay, but it is less than their normal pay, and since that is barely enough, the result is that they work even while sick.

Promotion of holocaust denial

mardi 18 août 2020 à 02:00

Search on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit promotes holocaust denial.

This may not be the result of a specific decision by those companies. I've read that Nazis have figured out how to manipulate the data that search algorithms operate on. Even if those companies, or some of them, do not intentionally support right-wing extremism, being its helpless tool is bad too.

I've seen arguments that the tendency of algorithms to promote extremist material — at least on Facebook and Twitter — is because they have been designed to show people things that make them want to stay on the site longer. That relates to the business models that make these sites so harmful in other ways.

Tracking apps imposed by employers

mardi 18 août 2020 à 02:00

Tracking apps imposed by employers on their employees violate users' privacy for their locations and for their medical data. Some may violate the HIPAA medical privacy law.