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Puigdemont tracked

vendredi 30 mars 2018 à 02:00

Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone.

If you have a portable phone, your enemies can use it to track you.

Full-face veil ban

vendredi 30 mars 2018 à 02:00

Austria's ban on full-face veils mainly impacts people wearing smog masks and animal costumes. It also interferes with our right not to be tracked by facial recognition.

The only other purpose it serves is to demonize Muslims. We should campaign to eliminate all such bans.

Website age checks

vendredi 30 mars 2018 à 02:00

UK Mandatory Website Age Checks Could Create Facebook of Porn, Critics Warn.

Who owns guns in the US

vendredi 30 mars 2018 à 02:00

US gun ownership is concentrated in old right-wing white men. Their advocacy for gun rights is typically connected with racism and sexism. The NRA illustrates this when it doesn't speak up much for women that use guns to defend themselves from domestic violence.

Gambling in the UK

vendredi 30 mars 2018 à 02:00

Allowing companies to run gambling operations however they wish enables them to systematically lead people from occasional gambling into addiction. A gambler proposes to nationalize gambling in the UK as a solution.

It isn't automatic or guaranteed that government-run gambling won't use the same tricks to increase income, but it would be less likely to do so. Government agencies tend to be more accountable than private companies.

Since the opportunity to gamble without going to a special place to do it seems to be a crucial exacerbating point, perhaps companies should not be allowed to support gambling through apps. Underground and foreign operations would still exist — to prevent that would require a system of digital tyranny, which I oppose. But they would not be able to advertise commercially, and people would distrust them, so I hope they would attract people less.