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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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US home business laws

mercredi 28 mars 2018 à 02:00

Many US cities use zoning laws to prevent people from doing business in their homes.

Worldwide abortion report

mercredi 28 mars 2018 à 02:00

"The chief lesson of a new report is that making abortion illegal or hard to get doesn't end abortion, it just makes it less safe."

Congress internet censorship

mercredi 28 mars 2018 à 02:00

How Congress Censored the Internet.

Craigslist has eliminated its personals section. FOSTA has made it too dangerous for a web site to have a personals section.

Let's hope that FOSTA is found unconstitutional.

I fully support efforts to put an end to enslavement of people to make them do sex work. But the problem is enslavement, not sex work, and enslavement is found in many fields of work. They include construction, farming, fishing, manicure, and domestic service.

We wouldn't propose to end enslavement in fishing by creating threats of imprisonment for anyone that operates a fishing boat. We shouldn't do it in sex work, either.

The CLOUD Act

mercredi 28 mars 2018 à 02:00

The US Congress brought a shadow on privacy world-wide by passing the CLOUD Act.

Texas prison immigration violence

mercredi 28 mars 2018 à 02:00

A private immigration prison in Texas practices extreme violence against the prisoners, and refuses to answer questions about what it did to them.

Privatizing a government activity generally brings unaccountability. This is one of the reasons why government activities should not be privatized.