Iraqi thugs from the "security forces" attacked protesters in Basra, reportedly going out of their way to wound people. They disabling Internet access for several days, apparently so protesters would be unable to post evidence of the attacks.

I wonder whether the cutoff was limited to mobile internet, or extended also to cabled internet.

The protests appear to be about bad economic conditions.

Relating censorship of social media today to the Hollywood blacklist of the 40s and 50s.

For social media platforms to censor specific views is a threat to freedom.

For social media platforms to be ideal for spreading lies that can spark mobs in the US and India, and gives violent extremism an advantage over the truth, is also a threat to freedom.

Perhaps there is a way to modify the systems of social media so that they cease to give fake news an advantage over truth.

Some clothing contains fake fake fur (i.e., real fur mislabeled as imitation).

It is bizarre that real fur is cheaper than imitation fur.

I do not oppose the use of real fur or real leather.

If other historic figures, and politicians, used the bullshitter's excuse.

Descartes: "I do not think, therefore I am."
Hamlet: "To not be, or to be, that is not the question."
Martin Luther King: "I do not have a dream, and anyone who says I did must have misheard me."

Plutocratist "centrist" Democrats are planning to contend with progressives for control of the Democratic Party.