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Urgent: Close Guantanamo

mercredi 7 février 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to close the Guantanamo prison.

I suggest explicitly saying also that each prisoner should get a fair trial or be released. Otherwise your congresscritter might think you want imprisonment without trial extended from a foreign naval base to the US itself.

Urgent: The bully's wall

mercredi 7 février 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Congress not to fund the bully's wall.

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State net neutrality rules

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

California is about to join Montana in refusing to buy from ISPs that disrespect network neutrality for customers. That seems to mean any customers, not just for the state itself as customer.

The proposed law also directly prohibits ISPs from violating network neutrality, but the FCC's new rules may prohibit this. and it is not clear which side federal courts will take.

Automated debt collection

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

It is no accident that the right-wing government of Australia set up an automated debt collection system that bullied thousands of people about nonexistent debts for nonexistent welfare fraud, and wouldn't listen to their counterevidence.

Part of the reason is that right-wingers demonize anyone that needs help. Another part is they followed the typical right-wing practice of privatizing the debt collection. Naturally the system didn't want to hear when the debt wasn't real.

Border spy tech

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

EFF: Keep Border Spy Tech Out of [immigrant] Protection Bills

I object to the hokey term "dreamers". This is one of the words that people use to show their membership in a political tribe, and I don't want to do that. I agree politically with some people on various issues, and I am often glad to support their efforts to achieve it, but I won't treat it like membership in a tribe.