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Bogus front companies

mardi 28 août 2018 à 02:00

The UK allows obvious bogus front companies to keep operating, by failing to enforce recently adopted laws.

Suppressing testimony

mardi 28 août 2018 à 02:00

A campaign aims to prohibit nondisclosure agreements that suppress testimony about crimes such as rape.

The nondisclosure agreements that cause the broadest harm are those that withhold generally useful technical information from the public. One technical nondisclosure agreement can keep millions of people under someone's thumb. In the early 1980s I reached the conclusion that it was immoral to accept a nondisclosure agreement for generally useful technical information, and I have carefully followed that principle ever since.

It was this conclusion, which I reached in the early 1980s, that propelled me to develop the free operating system GNU.

Work in Fishing Convention

mardi 28 août 2018 à 02:00

Pressing the government of Thailand to agree to the Work in Fishing Convention.

Flight time estimation

mardi 28 août 2018 à 02:00

Airlines have learned to give higher estimates of flight times, so that flights are less likely to arrive late.

The article disapproves of this, but I am not sure I agree. Giving a later estimate of arrival time does not mean that the flight takes longer. Rather, it introduces more caution into people's plans, including connections.

Defeating gun control opposition

mardi 28 août 2018 à 02:00

US teenagers are organizing voter registration campaigns to defeat senators that oppose gun control.

Please don't call them "children".