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Canada's excuse for abolishing anonymity online

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

Cyber-bullying is Canada's excuse for abolishing anonymity online.

A similar law in South Korea was repealed because of its oppression.

Privacy International has sued to end GCHQ

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

Privacy International has sued to end GCHQ's practice of breaking computer security (cracking).

Please don't call it "hacking".

Religion-based electioneering in India

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

Religion-based electioneering is illegal in India and a BJP candidate is being investigated for this.

I am of two minds about this law. It is a limit on freedom of speech, but not for people in general, only for electoral campaigns. It is comparable to limits on campaign spending. Religion is to India as money is to the US.

Planting milkweed

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

Some Americans are planting milkweed so that monarch butterflies can continue to exist.

In a few decades, I expect US agricultural land use to diminish due to global heating.

More likely to be fired that male CEOs

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

Female CEOs are more likely to be fired that male CEOs, an indication that prejudice is operating.

We should not let the treatment of female executives, or even female not-chosen-as-executives, distract us from the far more larger issue of the rights of female workers and female unemployed.