The prosecution of security researcher Justin Shafer seems to be related to the prosecution of John Rivello for ending a video to Kurt Eichenwald which was designed to send him into an epileptic seizure.

I think it is legitimate to prosecute someone for doing that.

We might also want our software to detect such videos to detect them.

This ties up a loose end in the previous political note but doesn't address the issue of Justin Shafer himself.

US border thugs have released 10-year-old Rosa Maria Hernandez from immigration prison.

It was absurd to put her in one.

Since she is 10 years old, mentally disabled, and seriously ill, she could hardly be able to run away or live on her own.

Photojournalist Matthew Abbott was barred from Papua New Guinea, clearly because he had revealed embarrassing facts about the Manus Island camp where Australia has dumped refugees.

Spain has arrested most of the leaders of the government of Catalonia and they face imprisonment for decades.

I still think that Catalans' objections to paying taxes to help poor regions of Spain are churlish.

However, if a sizeable majority of Catalans want independence, they should get it.

SCROTUS have published their tax attacks bill.

Some of these changes might be improvements, depending on details that someone would have to analyze carefully.

However, they can't make up for the giveaways to the rich.

This article does not mention the big giveaway to multinationals which would allow them to bring into the US the profits they have stored in tax havens, paying no tax on them.

The idea that cutting taxes on corporations would boost anything for the rest of us is known as “trickle down”.

It didn't work in the past and there is no reason to expect things to be different this time.

It is pure dooH niboR.

The troll and his family would save billions in taxes from this.