The UK wants to force refugees to "wait in Rwanda", a country whose
president is accused of having exiled dissidents assassinated, and
holding show trials of those he could grab.
It shouldn't be surprising the UK is not averse to this record, given
that the UK is currently helping the US grab a famous dissident for a
show trial.
If Rwanda proves too dirty for this use, the UK could try China ;-{.
16 April 2022 (Flights cancelled due to Covid illness)
Some European airlines eliminated the requirement to wear a mask.
Now they are cancelling lots of flights because their
crew staff are sick.
16 April 2022 (Censorship law banned an author from reading aloud)
Teachers obeying a new Republican censorship law banned an author
from reading aloud from his book,
It's Ok to be a Unicorn.
16 April 2022 (Visa limbo)
It's not just hostility that leads the UK government to cause people
great harm in regard to issues of residency. It appears they are
prone to trivial errors,
and can take months to correct them.
16 April 2022 (1/8 of rented homes in England pose health risk)
1/8 of the rental homes in England violate legal standards with
problems that cause
serious risk to health.
The agencies that ought to make landlords fix these problems are
hampered by being given insufficient funds by the Tories.
16 April 2022 (How trade secrets swallowed your right to know)
US businesses are using claims of trade secrecy to override safety laws,
environmental protection laws, worker protection laws, and
the right to a fair trial.
The article describes some legal strategies to use in lawsuits, but I
think we need to legislate to weaken trade secret law. For instance,
trade secrecy must give way to any legitimate public need to know the
information, and government's responsibility to keep the trade secret
secret should be limited to when that is easy to do.
16 April 2022 (Moral hazard of filter nets)
If Guber and Lyft drivers are independent contractors,
some of what those companies do to them
violates US anti-trust law.
16 April 2022 (Filter Mandate Bill)
Both the Registry of Copyright and US Congress are looking at requiring
platforms to
run automated copyright filters.
I appreciate that EFF's efforts against this threat, but it is disappointing
to see them give more weight to whether some businesses can be profitable
than to whether people are free to share, and free to post what they see.
And they highlight those bad values by calling artists
"creators".
Requiring these filters would in effect
permit cops to block
videos of their actions from being posted in
popular platforms.
Will Russian shells and bullets play Disney tunes so that Youtube
won't post recordings of their attacks?
16 April 2022 (young Mexicans have been reported as missing)
Around 100,000 young Mexicans have been reported as missing and hardly
any have been found.
16 April 2022 (NY lieutenant governor quits after arrest)
*New York lieutenant governor quits after arrest on
bribery and fraud
charges.*
16 April 2022 (Musk being sued for delaying Twitter announcement)
Elon Musk is being sued for illegally delaying the announcement that he
had bought a
large stake in Twitter.