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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Zuckerberg

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Zuckerberg, testifying to Congress, pretended ignorance of Facebook's collection of data about people that don't have Facebook accounts, and its other data about people which it didn't get from their own Facebook accounts.

Potential financial crash

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Big US banks have lent billions to companies that make loans, such as auto loans. Some of those companies are going down the tubes now because their own clients are defaulting.

This could potentially lead to another crash.

'Blighted' houses

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

Corrupt politicians in Wisconsin are designating people's houses as "blighted" as an excuse to kick them out and not really compensate them.

This is to bring in a factory run by the company that drove Chinese sweatshop workers making Apple products to commit suicide.

Unionized programmers

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

The software company Lanetix fired all its programmers after they agreed to unionize. They have not given up, because it is illegal to do that.

Sprint and T-Mobile

vendredi 20 avril 2018 à 02:00

A merger between Sprint and T-Mobile once again threatens.

Maybe they think progressives in Congress might make mergers more difficult in the future.