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Facebook data abuse

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Facebook collects lots of information that users don't directly give.

However, even when users knowingly hand over personal data because a "service" requires it, that's an injustice. If being kept track of is not the service users desire, keeping track of them is wrong. We must not say "it's ok if the user consents," because the manufacture of consent is too easy.

Finland homelessness

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Finland shows that it is straightforward to end homelessness by giving homes to homeless people. It takes effort and money.

Building more housing costs money, so it comes down to a political question: what are the nation's priorities? Housing? War? Enriching the rich?

The US and the UK don't do this, because they are dominated by plutocrats who think it's unfair to rich people to make them pay enough taxes. They think that because they are paid to think that.

Thus we need to replace the non-progressive Democrats in this year's primaries.

India: eight implicated in Hindu temple rape-murder

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Hindu bigots in India are trying to physically block the filing of charges for raping and killing a Muslim.

Tax scam analysis

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Big companies are not sharing their big Republican tax cuts with their workers.

We should not rely on the kindness of psychopaths. We should tax them more than before, not less than before.

Milwaukee school to prison pipeline

jeudi 19 avril 2018 à 02:00

Milwaukee applies pointless cruelty to public school students, especially those that are black.