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Doxxing users through "social" features

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

"Social" features that say "If you like what A posts, try what B posts", can indirectly doxx A or B.

Politicians

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Politicians today sometimes advocate laws and repressive policies for no evident reason except to harass their opponents.

The article errs in putting gun control in that category. Guns really are dangerous, especially to the families of their owners.

Systematic lie-fabrication campaigns

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Holocaust denial was an early example of the sort of systematic lie-fabrication campaigns that the right-wing now uses derail serious political discussion based on facts.

Death penalty

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Kayla Greenwood, whose father was killed by Kenneth Williams, begged the governor not to execute him.

It is a moving letter, though I denounce the idea that the state should reduce someone's punishment because that person became religious.

The governor, standing firm for the principle that the state is mercilessness, carried out the execution anyway.

Most of us will not be sentenced to death, but we could easily be hit by that immoral principle in lesser ways.

Union organizers in southern US

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Union organizers in the right-wing southern US have to reach out to an entire community, not just the workers in a particular company.