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Ethical demands of workers

mardi 14 août 2018 à 02:00

As workers of digital companies start to impose ethical demands, they are discovering their power. But how far will they demand ethical behavior?

They recognize the injustice of some unusual activities that serve tyranny, but can they recognize the injustice of their businesses' normal practice, such as proprietary software and collecting personal data?

School privatization

mardi 14 août 2018 à 02:00

Creeping school privatization has been a disaster in the UK. Also, in different ways, in the US.

We need to restore the formerly public schools to public control.

Florida's prisons and DRM

mardi 14 août 2018 à 02:00

Captive Audience: How Florida's Prisons and DRM Made $11.3M Worth of Prisoners' Music Disappear.

This is a bigger crime than most of the prisoners are accused of.

But the new Jpay system is far worse than that. It is total greed. The Florida Department of Corrections and Jpay plan to squeeze money out of the prisoners, and divide it up.

Republican election counting corruption

mardi 14 août 2018 à 02:00

Kris Kobach refused to recuse himself from the counting of an election in which he was one of the candidates.

There is no kind of corruption of which today's Republicans have any shame.

Fracking on California's public lands

mardi 14 août 2018 à 02:00

The saboteur-in-chief wants to impose fracking on California's public lands.