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Prostitute prosecuted

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

UK thugs prosecuted a prostitute rather than go after the people who robbed her.

Amazon oil extraction

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

Oil extraction in the Peruvian Amazon has poisoned the land and the people, but the companies that profited have no intention of spending the billion dollars needed to clean it up.

Internet censorship bill

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

EFF: Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation.

"Sex trafficking" is a weasely term. Nominally it means forcing people into prostitution, but I've seen articles which seem to use it to include voluntary prostitution (which is, after all, trafficking in sex). Those articles try to take our proper condemnation of enslavement and misapply it to prostitutes in general.

The distinction between prostitution and enslavement is crucial, so we should reject any terms that blur the distinction, such as "sex trafficking". Laws should not use that term.

The article also uses the term "content" which treats publications as a fungible substance or commodity. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.

Emotional intelligence

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

The idea of "emotional intelligence" has been rendered obsolete by advances in understanding of the brain.

Nicaragua canal

vendredi 4 août 2017 à 02:00

Amnesty International says that Nicaragua is repressing opponents of the proposed canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.