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Urgent: Stop deforestation

mardi 30 juin 2015 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Wendys to make a real effort to stop causing deforestation, not a pretend effort.

PISSI raids Kobani

mardi 30 juin 2015 à 14:00

PISSI raided Kobani, and the raiders killed 200 civilians before they were killed.

Collecting data on children in school

mardi 30 juin 2015 à 14:00

Collecting data on children in school is a booming business.

Repression of internet users in Iran

mardi 30 juin 2015 à 14:00

Iran continues to repress users of the internet, with filters and imprisonment.

I think the president of Iran is not in charge of this aspect of policy.

'Writing Code Is Not a Crime': Jailed Iranian Web Developer Saeed Malekpour Turns 40.

The US pioneered making the writing of code a crime, with the DMCA in 1998. The US was the first to prosecute someone for writing a program: Dmitry Sklyarov.

Prosecuting a programmer for how others used his code was also pioneered by the US against David LaMacchia. He made a general purpose upload/download network server and was prosecuted because others used it for forbidden sharing. The government claimed (based on nothing) that he intended it for this purpose.

Of course, sharing should not be a crime either. One injustice was piled on another.

Banksters' ultimatum for Greece

mardi 30 juin 2015 à 14:00

The Greek government has called a referendum on whether to accept the banksters' ultimatum.

I urge Greeks to reject the ultimatum. It is better to suffer for a while from default than suffer forever from impossible debt.