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Urgent: limit federal "forfeiture"

mardi 8 septembre 2015 à 02:00

US citizens: call for limiting federal "forfeiture" to people convicted of a crime.

"Forfeiture" without criminal conviction is punishment without trial and should be considered unconstitutional.

Urgent: support breaking up big banks

mardi 8 septembre 2015 à 02:00

US citizens: Support Sanders' plan for breaking up the big banks.

Urgent: funding of global heating denial

mardi 8 septembre 2015 à 02:00

Everyone: call on big coal companies to disclose their funding of global heating denial.

Urgent: extraction from public lands

mardi 8 septembre 2015 à 02:00

US citizens: call for making oil and gas extraction companies really pay for extraction from public lands.

"Dangerous to children"

lundi 7 septembre 2015 à 02:00

A 14-year-old boy in Britain has been put on a "dangerous to children" list for sending a nude photo of himself to a girl the same age.

"Inappropriate" is a keyword for "We want to punish you for this even though we can't point at anything in it that did wrong to someone."

It is true that sending someone a nude photo of yourself can have bad consequences. There are inherent bad consequences: for instance, the person you sent it to might resent receiving it. I wouldn't risk sending a nude photo of me to a woman unless I knew positively that she would take it favorably — and I'd have to look somewhat more attractive than I actually do.

But there are also artificial consequences, like being put on the list.