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Zoom enforced Chinese censorship

vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 02:00

Zoom enforced Chinese censorship against commemorating the anniversary of China's murderous repression of the protests at Tien An Men square in 1989.

Zimbabwean thugs arrested political opposition leaders and tortured them

vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 02:00

Zimbabwean thugs arrested some political opposition leaders and tortured them, as was demonstrated by their injuries. Now the thugs have arrested them again, and accused them of lying about being tortured.

Iowa's new ag-gag law

vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 02:00

Iowa's legislature has passed a new ag-gag law, imposing a two-year prison sentence on trespassing in a farm.

Stop the far-right from using the Punisher skull

vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 02:00

*How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol.*

UK will undo the privatization of the probation officers

vendredi 12 juin 2020 à 02:00

The UK will undo the privatization of probation officers.

One privatization down, dozens or hundreds to go. Tory privatization was a blind ideology underpinned by dooH niboR.

Occasionally the state does something there is no need for the state to do, because it works for people to get that something privately from a competitive market (properly regulated, to be sure, and assuming that the state makes sure people don't fall into poverty). In that case, the state can simply stop that activity and leave it to private business.

However, outsourcing a state activity to a business is never a good policy. It leads to low pay for the workers and bad, unaccountable service for the public