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Syria airstrikes

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Retaliation for the chlorine attack in Syria does not amount to a strategy.

Zuckerberg pleads ignorance

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Zuckerberg, testifying to Congress, pleaded ignorance to many aspects of Facebook's policies. Either he was lying or he has been incompetent all along.

However, we must not focus narrowly on Facebook alone, or on advertising surveillance alone, or on surveillance done by companies alone. The problem is the total amount of surveillance of people in general (not specifically of criminal suspects).

France: extreme censorship

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Censorship in France is going to extremes; a vegan has been convicted of a crime which consist of saying "I have no sympathy for the butcher that was murdered."

I disagree strongly with that opinion, but stating such views is part of freedom of speech, which France frequently treats with contempt.

France even makes it a crime to state certain views about past events.

Cambodia: Reggae bar raided

mercredi 18 avril 2018 à 02:00

A foreigner accused in Cambodia of drug trafficking may have been framed because she criticized Cambodia's dictator.

Detained unauthorized immigrant's legal rights

mercredi 18 avril 2018 à 02:00

The government program that teaches jailed unauthorized immigrants about their legal rights not only helps them exercise their rights, it even saves the US government money.

The bully's men resent the former benefit so much that they are trying to pretend that it loses money.