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Erdoğan law about "fake" news

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 04:02

Erdoğan is passing a law that would imprison people for spreading news that Erdoğan calls "fake".

Voters blocked in UK

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 04:02

Only a few instances of voters blocked in the UK by lack of the new voter ID were actually counted, but since the system was not designed to count them, there could be more than it seems.

Some were denied the right to vote because they are immunocompromised and did not dare remove their masks in the polling place.

Florida might prohibit teaching critical race theory

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 04:02

Florida is about to prohibit teaching critical race theory for real, even in universities where it really might be taught.

It goes with other laws that censor education for many age levels.

Copyright lawsuits in music industry

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 04:02

Pop music nowadays is sufficiently limited that almost any song could be seen as a take-off on many others. This led rapidly to charges of copyright infringement which could have turned the music industry into a mess of lawsuits.

Fortunately this threat was rejected for the moment.

Danger of bills that allow snooping

lundi 8 mai 2023 à 04:02

The ACLU told the Senate about the danger of various bills that would "protect children" by snooping on the communications of all adults.

The ACLU opposes KOSA, too, because it would require even more data collection about every user to figure out who is a minor.