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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Proposed merger of A&TT and Time Warner

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner would become even more harmful due to the absence of network neutrality.

The US should do what some other countries have done: require whoever owns the cable to a customer's home to rent its use to any ISP. This way we could have many competing ISPs.

National identity

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

"National identity is fake. We should focus on the wider common good."

I think "artificial" is a more apt word than "fake", It is good to encourage fellow-feeling with the people of your country, but not to the point that it interferes with fellow-feeling with everyone else.

Tories' voter suppression plan

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

The Tories' voter suppression plan is facing opposition.

Theater of Security Agency

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

The TSA has put some passengers on a list of suspects, because of actions that vaguely suggest a remote possibility they might be involved in something, then has air marshals to follow them and take notes on them, in airports and in flight.

In effect, the Theater of Security Agency is performing security theater with only itself as an audience.

Does this suggest to you that the TSA is getting more money than it can put to any good use?

UK public schools

vendredi 3 août 2018 à 02:00

Parents are leading the fight to block the UK's forced conversion of their local public school into an unaccountable publicly paid private schools.