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UK ban harmful material

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

The UK plans to ban "harmful" material on the internet, including disinformation.

UK sites would be forced to delete the material; other sites would be blocked by the Great Firewall of Britain if they did not.

It isn't surprising to see Singapore set up a "ministry of truth" for the internet. Singapore is repressive in many ways. But it may shock people to see the UK proposing something similar.

When the UK censors, it goes to extremes.

Trapped by fake university

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

The US government made a fake university to lure unauthorized immigrants into applying.

Then US persecutors pretended that the students knew it was fake and signed up only as a fraud — but that is clearly false in many cases, perhaps all.

Aid for Venezuela

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

US offers of "humanitarian aid" for Venezuela, even if they are not a mask for military intervention, are duplicitous. The aid offered would hardly come near making up for the increased shortage of food and medicine that new US economic sanctions will cause.

They also won't be enough to fill the shortages caused by Maduro's bad policies.

To treat the offer just like an armed attack is neither right nor good tactics. Venezuela could use the aid, and I expect the government can arrange to make sure it does not contain weapons.

Art censorship in Cuba

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

Artists are campaigning against Cuba's censorship of the arts.

US unions in 2016 and 2020

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

In 2016, US unions made the mistake of supporting the plutocratist, Clinton, instead of the candidate who defends non-wealthy Americans, Sanders.

They should not make this mistake again.