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Gui Minhai

mercredi 25 octobre 2017 à 02:00

China told a Swedish official that it released Gui Minhai from prison a week ago, but his daughter has not heard from him.

China sent a commando team to kidnap him from Thailand. The US has also sent commando teams to kidnap people, but at least those were people accused (perhaps rightly) of organizing mass murder, not people accused of being book publishers.

Volunteer

mercredi 25 octobre 2017 à 02:00

I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

Targeted ads

mardi 24 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Comparing targeted, "personalized" ads with the behavior of a high-functioning sociopath.

Perhaps there should be a law requiring all targeted advertising platforms and/or all their customers to publish every ad that they've run, along with the precise details of how it was targeted, so that people can see what other faces the organization is showing.

The article may be mistaken about trigger warnings. I've read that one of their purposes is to help people prepare for a disturbing experience. So don't assume that the Oxford students who see a trigger warning about Titus Andronicus in their literature class will avoid studying that play. It may instead help them to think about the play more calmly.

Gifts to witnesses

mardi 24 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The troll said he would pay the legal fees of his associates and aides that are being investigated by Mueller.

Such gifts to witnesses from the person under investigation may be criminal.

Sexual harassment

mardi 24 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The victims of the bully's sexual pressuring and harassment hope to create the sort of avalanche that pushed Weinstein out of his job.

I don't think it is likely to happen, because the situations are different. Weinstein couldn't continue his work when lots of people began to condemn him. The bully, however, is already continuing his sabotage while hated by most Americans.