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Dissolving corporations

mercredi 6 février 2019 à 01:00

The US used to dissolve corporations that trampled the public. It should do so again.

I would rather avoid the term "death penalty" to describe this, however, because corporations are not alive. They are not, morally, persons and not morally entitled to human rights.

Tracking data for phones

mercredi 6 février 2019 à 01:00

Tracking data for mobile phones in the US is easily available to lots of businesses and individuals, because the phone networks readily sell it.

The fact that the state can get data about your past actions, perhaps for years, is dangerous even if the state gets a search warrant. That means that in effect the phone networks are spying on all mobile phone users in advance for Big Brother. Any person's location data should only start if a warrant authorizes it.

Fluoride in Juneau

mercredi 6 février 2019 à 01:00

After Juneau stopped putting fluoride in the water supply, there was a substantial increase in the rate of cavities in children's teeth.

Killings of Palestinians

mercredi 6 février 2019 à 01:00

The Israeli army says it investigates killings of Palestinians, but the investigations are not intended to find anything wrong.

SF General Hospital

mercredi 6 février 2019 à 01:00

San Francisco General Hospital, a public hospital systematically gouges patients that come to the emergency room. It refuses to cooperate with private insurance companies, so whatever charges they don't cover bankrupt the patient.

The hospital was recently named after Zuckerberg, but he is not in charge of it, so I don't expect that he is personally responsible for this practice. However, the grasping spirit demonstrated by renaming a public hospital after a billionaire donor could be related to it.

With Medicare for All, hospitals would not have any way to do this. They would get paid by Medicare, and they would get the amount Medicare pays.