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Amazon's size

mercredi 3 avril 2019 à 02:00

Amazon ought to be investigated and punished for using its size to kill off competitors.

Unfortunately, the worst things Amazon does are not illegal. They include DRM, spying, back doors, antisocializing contracts, proprietary software, and requiring people to identify themselves.

Lyft donation to Oakland

mercredi 3 avril 2019 à 02:00

Lyft would like us to think that a donation to Oakland, California — a donation consisting partly of discounts on Lyft's own surveilled ride service — compensates for its lobbying campaign to kill a tax that would have brought Oakland more money.

Shooting in Vallejo

mercredi 3 avril 2019 à 02:00

Six Vallejo thugs found a black man asleep at the wheel of his parked car. They woke him and shot him dead.

Vallejo's thugs are reported to victimize black men frequently.

Google's AI ethics council

mercredi 3 avril 2019 à 02:00

Google Urged to Boot 'Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Immigrant' Right-Winger From AI Ethics Council.

UK making problems at school worse

mercredi 3 avril 2019 à 02:00

The UK wants to make doctors and teachers report teenagers that show signs of having been attacked with knives. Teachers who don't notice will be punished.

The government does not intend to help those teenagers; that costs money, and the government has already cut such help. It must intend to repress or harass them somehow; but since they are already under great pressure, I think that will make them snap. In other words, it will make the problem worse.