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Facebook exposing hidden accounts

vendredi 1 juillet 2016 à 02:00

Facebook silently changed its search system to expose the existence of hidden accounts.

In addition, Facebook goes to great lengths to hide some privacy settings. Apparently it wants to claim users have that option while making it so hard to find that people won't use it.

If anything suggests to you that you "must" have a Facebook account, that is proof of the importance of your duty to refuse to have a Facebook account.

The UK political situation

jeudi 30 juin 2016 à 02:00

The UK political situation reflects the fact that politicians almost completely ignored the people, as well as the serious political issues that affect them.

It is not an accident that this has become the norm there, and in the US. It is a result of plutocracy, which uses the media to spread the idea that resisting the actions of the plutocracy is "unrealistic".

Conditions for chickens raised for sale

jeudi 30 juin 2016 à 02:00

Perdue says it will pay the cost of improving conditions for chickens that are raised for it to sell.

Private prison

jeudi 30 juin 2016 à 02:00

A journalist working in a CCA private prison reports that the way CCA extracts a profit is through low pay and understaffing. The guards can't stop prisoners from stabbing other prisoners.

His training class explicitly taught him not to try to stop prisoners from attacking other prisoners.

Domestic violence and guns

jeudi 30 juin 2016 à 02:00

Reckless domestic violence has been ruled grounds for denying someone the right to buy or own guns, just like flat-out deliberate violence.

If this law had been enforced, it would have prevented the Orlando massacre.

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