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UK campaign cheaters

dimanche 18 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Organizations that cheated in campaigning for the UK to vote to leave the EU also persecuted a whistleblower who revealed their cheating.

Alabama's abortion amendment

dimanche 18 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Alabama's anti-abortion constitutional amendment would allow prosecuting women for using IUDs or for not getting prenatal care.

This shows the absurdity of treating fetuses as human beings.

Gait analysis in China

dimanche 18 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Gait analysis software developed in China recognizes people reliably by their bodies and their gait.

We can't count on any country to be safe from this. Peoples that want freedom need to adopt laws against systems that can identify people on the street.

San Francisco tax

dimanche 18 novembre 2018 à 01:00

San Franciscans voted to tax large companies to fund help for the homeless.

This is good, but for San Francisco to reduce homelessness, it needs to make more places for people to live.

Cities and states should not be allowed to offer special tax breaks or subsidies to attract a company to locate there. That practice ends up enriching companies at the expense of cities and most people.

RFID chips for employees

dimanche 18 novembre 2018 à 01:00

There is a danger that companies will pressure employees into getting RFID chips implanted in their bodies.

Often the only effective way to stop companies from coercing thousands or millions of people into some practice is to make that practice entirely illegal. A mere requirement for consent is ineffective because it is easy to pressure people into "consent."