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Russia using Facebook and Twitter

samedi 16 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Limiting freedom of speech on the internet is the wrong way to address the harmful general practices that Russia took advantage of.

Russia was able to use Facebook and Twitter for influence because they were designed to magnify the influence of anyone with money. Big "American" businesses, and "American" pressure campaigns they fund, do even more damage with those sites, and the fact that this is supposedly "not foreign" does not make it less harmful.

Leftist parties in Europe

samedi 16 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Leftist parties are going down to defeat in Europe because they failed to challenge the supranational structures that impose plutocratic policies on them: namely, those of the EU.

This opens the door to triumph by right-wing parties whose platform is cruelty to some scapegoat. They don't really make things better for the non-rich; all they offer is a chance to feel better by beating down someone weaker.

Protecting air pollution

samedi 16 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The fossil fuel interests have been very successful at subverting governments to protect carbon emissions and a future of global heating. What is less well known is that they are doing the same thing to protect toxic air pollution.

Choosing food or medical care

samedi 16 décembre 2017 à 01:00

DooH niboR forces 100 million people each year to choose between food and medical care.

Automatic copyright censorship

samedi 16 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The EU plans to surrender to the movie companies by requiring all communication networks to impose an automatic copyright censorship system.