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Voter Rolls Being Targeted

mardi 19 mars 2024 à 05:23

Unofficial groups of Republicans are trying to rig elections by pressuring local election officials in some states to remove voters from he voting lists.

In Michigan, Nevada, and Georgia they have had successes.

Punjabi Farmers and Modi

mardi 19 mars 2024 à 05:23

Modi made a campaign promise to Indian farmers, then broke it. When they protested this, they met with repression

of the sort that he had previously reserved for Muslims.

Urgent: A global minimum tax

lundi 18 mars 2024 à 14:52

US citizens: call on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to endorse a global minimum tax on billionaire wealth ahead of the G20 summit.

Facebook as TikTok

lundi 18 mars 2024 à 14:52

Congress is considering a bill to demand TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese owner, in order to keep operating in the US. Yet articles continue to talk about this as a plan to ban TikTok, rather than a plan to disconnect it from China. Why misrepresent this point?

Its intense collection of personal data clearly has the power to increase the harm it does, compared with Facebook. What that suggests is a law to prohibit any company from collecting data in this way. Ideally it would also limit the data Facebook can collect about its useds — that would increase the benefit of the law.

Richard Stallman will give a talk

lundi 18 mars 2024 à 14:52

In Rapperswil, Switzerland, Richard Stallman will give a talk. The title of the talk will be Free Software and Freedom in a Digital Society.