The new censorship regime in Hong Kong is intentionally vague to terrify journalists.
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
The new censorship regime in Hong Kong is intentionally vague to terrify journalists.
Maskless drunken foreign tourists in Spain threaten to reboost Covid-19.
These reckless jerks should not get a second chance. I encourage Spain to hold them in quarantine until the opportunity to deport them.
Questioning the long-standing practice of operating to "normalize" intersex babies.
Which sorts of situations are likely to cause irreversible psychological harm is socially constructed, so it can change. It's possible that 70 years ago growing up intersex was a disaster, because it was taboo and its discovery was likely to trigger a horrible response. Nowadays, with the relaxation of imposed gender roles, maybe nowadays it is not a big deal — in some parts of the world.
The bully did something right, for a change: he cancelled Hong Kong's special economic privileges; it will get the same treatment as China.
Impeding people with Hong Kong passports from visiting the US may be a bad step, since some of them would come in order to apply for asylum. It might not be safe for them to do so while in Hong Kong.