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Republican party motto

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

"You will not replace us" is the Republican Party's motto as well as the white supremacist's.

Africa gangs poaching

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Poaching mafias in Africa also move drugs.

Cambridge UP China Censorship

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Cambridge University Press imposed censorship of its journal, the China Quarterly, on users from China. It has blocked 300 articles, following orders from the Chinese state.

China's demand for censorship is tyrannical, but don't forget that the roots of this injustice are in the journal's paywall. The paywall is an inexcusable attack on scholarship which also gives CUP the power to track and control who can read the articles. Having this power made CUP vulnerable to pressure from China, which demanded that CUP use its power for the Chinese state against the Chinese people.

The Cambridge University Press must immediately remove the paywall from the China Quarterly, and permit everyone to mirror the journal freely (which it morally ought to have done anyway). Then it will have a simple, ethical answer to give China when China demands that it control who can read the journal: "We are unable to do that."

Scholars, please refuse to serve as reviewers or editors for journals that control access to articles or restrict sharing of articles.

Consumer fraud operation

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

Republicans sabotaged an anti-fraud system by threatening to apply it arbitrarily to birth control.

False accusations

mardi 22 août 2017 à 02:00

A woman wants to apologize to her estranged father for the false accusations of molestation that she made against him, as a young child, under irresistible pressure from her mother.

False accusations may be unusual, but they are not impossible.