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Dating apps in Australia
Australia is heading for requiring users of dating apps to prove their legal
identities.
I understand the importance of keeping out threats
and contempt, but just as Facebook's real name
requirement is oppressive,
so will the dating app real name requirement be.
Of course, all these sites treat their users unjustly in another way:
by requiring each user to run a nonfree program. The internet is likely
to transform into a system for rigid repression. I hope we can keep some
corners of it safe from repression. |
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Putin forces accumulating tanks and soldiers
The Putin forces seem to be accumulating tanks and soldiers for
another offensive, perhaps on the one-year anniversary of the first invasion. |
| 9:47p |
Lula and environment minister to preserve ecosystems
Lula and his environment minister, Marina Silva, are committed to
preserving all of Brazil's ecosystems, not just the Amazon forest
which is tottering on the edge of drying out. |
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Plants and animals at risk of extinction
1/3 of US plant species and 40% of US animal species are "at risk of
extinction."
Many kinds of ecosystems are endangered as a whole.
Greenpeace protesters have occupied an oil drilling platform
with which Shell is planning another act of ecocide. |
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Blocking nomination of Gigi Sohn
Right-wing senators continue to block the nomination of Gigi Sohn
to the board of the FCC, using bogus excuses,
The latest bogus excuse is that she is on the board of the EFF,
which opposed and opposes the internet censorship law, SESTA/FOSTA,
which was designed to sabotage internet advertising by sex workers, by
making platforms fear false accusations based on the hypothetical
possibility that those sex workers are enslaved.
We who oppose SESTA/FOSTA believe it is unjust to attack people by
provoking fear, in those people and those they cooperate with, of
being suspected of something they don't actually do. We also believe
that sex work in itself is not evil. |
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North Korean Youtube influencers
North Korea has a few Youtube influencers, who appear to be specially
privileged people.
They enjoy things that are ordinary in the US or
South Korea, but which in North Korea only specially privileged people
can use.
The purpose of these channels seems to be to give people a false
picture of life in North Korea.
Hollywood did something similar for the US, and maybe still does:
TV shows set in people's homes show houses that are large and luxurious,
that typical Americans could not afford. |
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Urgent: Call on Biden to fund Social Security
US citizens: call on Biden to fund Social Security — by taxing the wealthy. |