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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Professions as businesses

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

Treating professions as mere businesses comes at a cost to society.

Supposedly, calling patients, clients and students "customers" was going to make them "king", empowered. But that's not what really resulted.

With modern surveillance-based business methods, the customer is the puppet king who reigns symbolically, whose every act is managed and controlled by the "servants". The extreme case is the medical business today in the US, where hospitals and doctors look for every opportunity to trick and cheat the customer.

Urgent: Military authorization

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Congress to repeal the blanket Authorization for Use of Military Force.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Urgent: Save the Internet Act

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: support the Save the Internet Act (resurrect the FCC's former network neutrality regulations).

Here is what the EFF has to say about the bill.

These regulations are not all we really need but they are a lot better than the nothing we have now.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Urgent: Ilhan Omar

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

Everyone: sign a note of appreciation and support to Ilhan Omar.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Prime Air drones

samedi 9 mars 2019 à 01:00

(satire) Jeff Bezos reportedly set loose hundreds of Prime Air drones Friday to hunt down and retrieve the nude photos of him obtained by the National Enquirer.

I'm richer than you! infinity loop