from the always-think-of-how-your-worst-enemy-will-use-this-law dept
For a while, we’ve been pointing out how terrible KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) is. Our main concern is that the bill would fundamentally lead to the suppression of all kinds of speech. That’s because the “duty of care” provision, while limited, would allow officials (mostly at the FTC, which can get partisan) to argue that certain types of results were due to a design failure, and companies would seek to suppress content, rather than face the potential liability.
Republicans Pump Brakes on KOSA After Realizing It Could Censor Them Too
Month: August 2024
Sex-trafficking victim Chrystul Kizer gets 11 years for killing her abuser
KENOSHA, Wis. — A judge on Monday sentenced a Milwaukee woman charged with killing the man who sexually abused her as a teenager to 11 years in prison plus five years of extended supervision. The decision ends a six-year legal saga that tested the limits of the court’s leniency toward trafficking survivors who commit crimes.
Sex-trafficking victim Chrystul Kizer gets 11 years for killing her abuser
Previously:
Mexico: Presidential Letter to Biden Criticises US for Internal Affairs Meddling! (20.8.2024)
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in a letter to his American counterpart Joe Biden, denounced the “interference” of U.S. government agencies in Mexico’s domestic affairs, particularly their financing of an opposition-controlled non-governmental association (NGO).
Mexico: Presidential Letter to Biden Criticises US for Internal Affairs Meddling! (20.8.2024)
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Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad’s International Partners
Australia becomes a “central base of operations” for US war plans against China
Australia’s current Labor government is intensifying the transformation of Australia into a crucial platform for a US war against China across the Indo-Pacific region, effectively placing the population in the firing line of a potential nuclear war.
Australia becomes a “central base of operations” for US war plans against China
Phil Donahue, Fired by MSNBC for Hosting Guests Against Iraq War, Dies at 88
Donahue was fired in 2003 for airing antiwar voices when most of the corporate media was cheerleading the drive for war.
Phil Donahue, Fired by MSNBC for Hosting Guests Against Iraq War, Dies at 88
Reading update 08-19-2024: Mao Zedong: On Diplomacy
Related:
Mao Zedong: On Diplomacy (PDF)
Source: Left side of the road
Chinese and Philippine ships collide at Sabina Shoal, a new flash point + More
The incident, the first time in decades that Beijing and Manila have clashed over the Sabina Shoal, may derail efforts to lower tensions in the South China Sea.
Chinese and Philippine ships collide at Sabina Shoal, a new flash point (archived)
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CCG restricts repeated Philippine vessel intrusions near South China Sea reefs
Chen Xiangmiao, director of the World Navy Research Center at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, told the Global Times on Monday that the Philippines sees Xianbin Jiao as a transfer station for its resupply missions to Ren’ai Jiao, as Xianbin Jiao is located between Ren’ai Jiao and the Philippines’ Palawan Province.
Philippine media have hyped the China Coast Guard’s (CCG) presence in the Xianbin Jiao, but it is the Philippines that has sent the MRRV-9701 to the area in the first place. The Philippine ship anchored in the lagoon of the Xianbin Jiao in April, with a CCG ship arriving later in July.
Updated on 07-27-2024: SeaLight, formerly Project Myoushu
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Read More »The Newest WAR CRIME of the New York Times. Exposing Russian PoWs
Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
There is no need to belabour the point that Social Democracy has nothing in common with those bought-and-paid-for moralists who, in response to any terrorist act, make solemn declarations about the ‘absolute value’ of human life. These are the same people who, on other occasions, in the name of other absolute values—for example, the nation’s honour or the monarch’s prestige—are ready to shove millions of people into the hell of war. Today their national hero is the minister who gives the sacred right of private property; and tomorrow, when the desperate hand of the unemployed workers is clenched into a fist or picks upon a weapon, they will start in with all sorts of nonsense about the inadmissibility of violence in any form.
‘Responsible Statecraft’: What does Ukraine’s incursion into Russia really mean?
‘Responsible Statecraft’, a publication of analysis, opinion, and news that seeks to promote a positive vision of U.S. foreign policy based on humility, diplomatic engagement, and military restraint, asked some experts to gauge the short and long term effects of Kyiv’s bold invasion on the war.
‘Responsible Statecraft’: What does Ukraine’s incursion into Russia really mean?
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