NYC's new legislation cracking down on Airbnbs goes into effect today - YouTube 

The US Government Is Suing Google - Everything You Need To Know - YouTube 

DOJ says Google illegally maintained a monopoly for more than a decade - YouTube 

Monopolizing search by making deals with phone makers to be the default search.

Of all the things Google and other tech giants are bad for doing, this is one thing they are not bad for. Google Search is the best. When I can't get results using non-spy search engines, I go to Google and it is an excellent product. What would be nice would be competing excellent products, for different types of search (Google provides search for specific information queries of a certain type, and they also put answers in the results, stock graphs, etc, but they are useless for finding interesting and new things, blogs, bloggers, non-commercial things). Or they could take up the privacy issue with Google.

AI-generated art not protected by copyright law, judge rules - YouTube 

Large retailers facing lawsuits over deceptive pricing allegations - YouTube 

Listing things as ‘on sale’ without actually discounting the price. They raise the price to double the price for a short time, then discount it back to the original $20 price.

JCPenny, Foot Locker, Eddit Bauer facing lawsuits currently.

Reportedly, the financial damange is worse if they lose market share to competitors (monetary damange and bad PR), worse than if they didn't do this price

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ghmxnK1LUg

trick. Even if it's like $20m. Because these suits will likely disappear.

Cali has a regulation where the older price has to have been for 3 months, but reportedly this doesn't really prevent the stores.

Former UCSD doctor speaks out after winning $39M whistleblower lawsuit - YouTube 

Tulsa man could face more charges after 12-year-old delivers his child | FOX23 News Tulsa - YouTube 

Denmark mulls banning desecration of holy books amid Quran burnings | DW News - YouTube 

Violence won in Denmark?

Iranian women reject hijabs despite morality police return - BBC Newsnight - YouTube 

DOJ tells Jim Jordan that FBI agent subpoenas 'cannot be enforced' - YouTube 

Dallas City Council bans short-term rentals from single-family areas - YouTube 

The Loophole That Lets Police Do Warrantless Spying - YouTube 

Ray Epps' Lawyer Claims Joe Rogan Was MORE Responsible For January 6th Than Epps - YouTube 

Litigation Funding: More investors fund lawsuits, as rules and transparency lag behind | 60 Minut… - YouTube 

ESG EXPOSED - A $66 Trillion Dollar Weapon Used To Control Corporate America - YouTube 

Report Highlights Significance of Device Security Regulation | PSA Certified 2023 Security Report - YouTube 

Senators propose new bipartisan ban on stock ownership - YouTube 

Congressmen have a state in the system through stocks, but sleezy things happen.

Another option is to limit politicians power over the economy.

Politicians have info and know what's coming. And they maybe aren't good at actually punishing their own members.

Difference between trading and (broad-based) investing.

CNBC on-air hosts can't own individual securities either (company policy). They can own mutual funds and ETFs and other kinds of securities.

Diminimism. 5% versus 50% of portfolio.

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Apple says no FaceTime and iMessage in UK if proposals made law – BBC News - YouTube 

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‘I was a shaking mess’: Woman arrested for a COVID Facebook post reflects on experience - YouTube 

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OpenAI: Sarah Silverman and others launch lawsuits over alleged copyright violation concerns - YouTube 

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Hollywood writers sue Meta and OpenAI for copyright infringement - YouTube 

If the courts side with OpenAI and Meta, will writers be too soured to write new works going forward?

AI and Privacy; Attorney discusses his firms lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft - YouTube 

“We have been duped by big tech into believing that ... either that we participate online and participate in transacting business and communicating on the internet but we wave all of our privacy and property rights, or we simply don't engage in activity on the internet. That is a false choice ...” - Ryan Clarkson
Yet no one has shown us alternatives to the online things we use.

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FTC, DOJ release guidance on their approach to antitrust enforcement - YouTube 

Including that mergers should not eliminate substantial competition or increase risk of coordination, eliminate a potential entrant in a concentrated market, and substantially lessen competition by creating a firm that controls products its rivals use to compete.

This document isn't law, but rather a summary of how the FTC sees the law and how they'll try to act upon it. But for people looking at it, it might be so restrictive it's not worth looking at. Companies can say ‘I’m going to challenge it, I don't think it's right.'

Here are the new California laws taking effect on July 1 - YouTube

Federal judge restricts White House from contact with social media companies - YouTube 

Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by US Companies as Gov't Sued for Outlawing "Neocolonial Project" - YouTube 

“Large corps weaponize ... this undemocratic dispute settlement regime ...” - Elizabeth Warren

“Sedes” removed from territorial jurisdictions, and can set their own regulatory standards, tax policy, court system (basically run their own government).

At first the people of the country didn't even know this was happening. ... Then there was massive uprising. Indiginous societies ... A new leader was elected on a campaign to overturn this law .. did so. But then the Trade Agreement (that no one really knew about), that empower corporations to be able to challenge democratic policies, outside of the court system, this isn't in a US or Honduran court, it's in a private tribunal of private sector lawyers, three arbitrators who will decide ...

“The company is using this [lawsuit for $12b, 1/3 of the country's budget, which would ‘bankrupt’ the country] as a tool to try to bully the government.”

Supreme Court rules in favor of business owner who refused services for same-sex weddings - YouTube 

Making a website for them.

She hasn't even made any websites yet, but she said she's afraid she'd be forced to make websites for something she opposes which is gay marriage. SCOTUS 6-3 said she can't be forced to do so because it is her speech right.

This is not about her religeon. She objected on speech grounds. Where is the line? Is the couple's speech, which is through a website designer, also compromised?

Supreme Court rejects Genius lawsuit claiming Google stole song lyrics | Hacker News 

Supreme Court Strikes Down $430 Billion Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan | WSJ - YouTube 

Florida making it illegal for some foreigners to buy real estate - YouTube 

DeSantis.

China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, NK, Cuba, Syria. They would have to rent.

Florida is top state for foreign buyers and China is top source of buyers. Real estate is the second most important revenue source in Florida after tourism.

25 states have or are looking at laws preventing Chinese state actors from buying farmland. This idea is popular in both parties.

The EU’s AI Act, Explained | WSJ Tech News Briefing - YouTube 

Facial recognition, predictive policing, realtime biometric surveillance in public places. “High risk applications” that they want guardrails or bans.

Looking at forcing developers to insert things that will prevent it from creating illegal material. Another thing is making companies publish summaries of the copyright content they used.

Amazon to pay over $30M in settlements over Ring, Alexa violations - YouTube 

Amazon let workers access videos from people's houses when it wasn't necessary to do their jobs. Unfettered access.

Alexa kept voice and other info on kids for years, violating their privacy rights, according to finding.

Ed Sheeran Shows on His Guitar How He Won His Copyright Lawsuit - YouTube 

US man killed by police in doorway of his own home after authorities show up to wrong address : news 

Worse Than The Patriot Act? - YouTube

"Restrict Act" being debated in Congress.

?Ban VPNs, impose fines?

Italy Aims to Ban The Use of English. Here’s How | Vantage with Palki Sharma - YouTube 

German police carry out raids on extremist group | DW News - YouTube 

The Germans I know are not impressed by the government doing this over the past months.

Catholic school has student arrested for expressing Catholic beliefs | National Post 

#HumanRights #FreedomofSpeech #Canada

Violent protests in Georgia over proposed 'Russian-style' bill | DW News - YouTube

"It improves transparency" said lawmaker, to require news and other orgs that receive more that 20% of their rev from external to register as 'foreign agents'.

#Terrorism #CivilRights

As a response to the administering of mRNA Covid vaccines under 'emergency use authorization' (at the time) without receiving FDA approval. 

"This was fast-tracked. There's no liability. There's no access to the data. The risk-benefit analysis has not been done. There's no informed consent."

#PIC #Idaho

23 charged with domestic terrorism after riot at site of Atlanta Public Safety Training Center - YouTube

What is Cop City where is Atlanta Public Safety Training Center | 13wmaz.com 

Viral video takes on DUI checkpoints - YouTube 

(not this isn't news. It's from like 2014, but recently popped up on my feeds.)

It's legal in Florida. "But you better be squeaky clean otherwise you give them another reason because you draw attention to yourself."

He hangs a plastic bag outside his driver's window but the window stays closed.

In the bag are license, registration, and insurance. All the ID he'll need.

"Because the second you open your window, they can say they smell alcohol or drugs emitting from the vehicle. And the moment that you say a word, they can say that your speech was slurred."

"A lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea that police can just stop you for no reason. And if you're not comfortable with that, this is a good way of handling a checkpoint. And there are good cops and there are bad cops. The purpose of this flyer is to protect innocent people from bad cops."

Thousands in Israel protest legal changes planned by Netanyahu government • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube 

To give Parliament power to overturn Supreme Court decisions and appoint judges.

80k people in central TA.

Seems to have something to do with LGBT at the moment.

Gravitas: Google loses anti-trust battle in India - YouTube

Pre-installed apps, restricted ability to remove apps, measures to ensure search is Google.

 

Renewed hopes for Indian startups.

Southwest Airlines' meltdown is a national crisis, says FlyersRights.org president - YouTube 

Over half of customers had delays recently.

With no delay compensation in the US yet, it's cheaper to give bad service and even cancel a flight than to operate it in certain situations. Eu has this already. Congress may act.

Palestinian-French rights lawyer Hammouri deported by Israel - YouTube 

Some Canadians Will Have to Explain Their Wealth or Lose It - YouTube

I think this is just about carried cash, not all 'wealth' as they titled it, but I haven't watched the full vid yet. However, you could make the point that cash seized from a home is another category.

It's illegal under EU law to platform RT, Greenwald said

Iran’s morality police dissolved, says prosecutor general • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube

Veil for women is the main focus, and what women can say. (Also anything that is Islamic/Sharia) like alcohol, mingling or men and women.

Morality police really formed in early 1990s.

Iranians also have been using apps to notify each other where the checkpoints are set up where they check for moral clothing use.

Iranian protests (began in September, several hundred have died so far in multiple protest events) are still making headlines.

Other countries have similar things. "Any country where you have strict codes of behavior enforced ... [Saudi Arabia although it has eased restrictions for women over recent years], Sudan, Malaysia. Enforcing public order sometimes.

 

Where is the line between bargains and exploitation?

Do they have safety? Food? Shelter?

What is the direction of the progress? How much further is there to go? Who will care about this specific question in 2 or 3 years?

(Old: The baby name Xaea12 would have violated Cali law because it contains characters not in the modern English alphabet, so Elon and Grimes changed it to X AE A-XI)

FRANCE BANS MS Office 365, Google Docs in schools: Linux & Open Source news - YouTube 

Senegal launches 'price patrols' to tackle inflation • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube

Rent control soon, they say.

#Government #Africa

And smart glasses.

#Technology #Privacy #Europe

Spain's Mar Menor lagoon granted legal personhood in European first • FRANCE 24 English - YouTube

(Teresa Vicente, Phil of Law professor at University of Mercia)

Vicente 6 months ago at the UN: Teresa Vicente y Mario Cervera en la ONU • ILP Mar Menor - New York - YouTube

#Nature #Europe

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan charged for making ' false statements' by Election Commission | WION - YouTube 

Recently some random person posted about the Alex Jones trial, asking what he said that was different from MSM or government agencies.

Social Media is Told To Allow All Viewpoints by Appeal Court - YouTube

A grocery store (or other private property) can be forced to host speech, according to common law.

SM platforms are different from newspapers because what is published in a newspaper is so because the newspaper made a choice to publish it. It is the newspaper's speech.

SM platforms are primarily conduits.

Parades make choices about who goes in them. This is their first amendment right, so they can discriminate against gays. They can't be forced to make a choice, akin to a newspaper. The parade organizer is more like a newspaper.

Schools can be forced to host military parades, although they can of course speak out against them.

SM have no space considerations. Forcing a newspaper or tv station to publish something means they can't publish something else which means they lose money on that space, and curtails the owners ability to speak in its own form.

The SC has been very clear on protecting from forced affiliation claims. Plus SM platforms can actively say what they want against opinions. Coerced endorsement.

For newspapers or TV or parades, do editorial decisions occur after the speech has occurred or before? After? That is not what an editor does.

SM platforms have constantly said they aren't the speaker. That it isn't their speech. (Section 230.)

Publishers make a decision to repeat something someone else said. Now they're saying it too. Now you're a publisher.

Common Carrier doctrine dates back before US founding, in common law. It vests states with the power to impose nondiscrimination obligations on communication and transportation providers who hold themselves to serve all members of the public without individualized bargaining. (Telegraph invented in 1830 was the first communications service subjected to Common Carrier at the end of the 19th C. Legislators were concerned private entities that controlled this new tech would use their power to manipulate the flow of info to the public when it served their economic or political self-interest. Western Union (the largest) sometimes refused to carry messages from journalists that competed with its ally AP. The first law required them to receive dispatches to and from any individual on the payment of their usual charges to transmit them with impartiality and good faith. And to transmit them in the order they were received.

Public transport companies can kick people off their vehicles. They're forced to accept everybody but can be forced to revoke that.

SM is the dominant means of communication (although not exclusive).

Commerce, friendship, family, speech, persuasion, picketing, pamphleting, concerts, protests. There a public interest in the social media communication.

Gravitas: Imran Khan booked on terror charges - YouTube 

US Senate passed $740 billion 'Inflation Reduction Act' package | Latest English News | World News - YouTube

Eyesbrows raised for: lots going to IRS, so they can do more active work perhaps, lots of government oversight of drug companies, emphasis on climate initiatives when other issues seem to some people more pressing.

$740b, so taxes will be raising, it's been said, during a time when Americans might not want taxes raised.

Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

1971 - 1973

Before, New Yorkers had to show they had self-defense needs to get the permit.

NY mayor not happy, nor Biden. It affects 40 states, Biden said.

NY can still require people get licenses on condition of things like background checks and mental health records, said an analyst. They can also limit guns in places like overcroweded places, courts, maybe trains.

Getting a gun is the same as before in NY. You still have to go through the same process to get a license. What is different is that anyone who has that license can concealed carry.

#Constitution #CivilRights

Expanding the tax base. Sector is highly unregulated.

They already have the law, but it calls for a fine of $75 and no more than 30 days in jail.

An actress killed herself two years ago, and in last days she was sharing some of the insults she had received online. This law change is considered to be related.

Lawmakers added a provision that they would reexamine the law in 3 years, and if the impact was positive it would remain.

#Japan #CivilRights

People can grow it at home, and can consume it. The government is giving away 1m seedlings. It's being sold in stores.

However, possession of extracts stronger than 0.2% THC are not allowed.

Russia calls them foreign mercenaries. It's expected they won't be executed, but will be held as diplomatic tools. Sentenced in Donetsk, Ukraine, occupied by Russian forces. Maybe a prisoner swap.

The men had been in Ukraine since 2017, serving in the army there, reportedly. One has a well-established life there and a Ukrainian wife.

Russia does not follow any international order, some say, and this can be kept in mind. The court is recognized by Russia and no other countries. Western MSM refers to it as a show trial.

The men have 30 days to appeal.

He suffered various types of torture and maltreatment in the US torture prison.

Everyone wants to buy chip manufacturers now. Taiwan is concerned China will obtain it's chip tech.

Wion reported Taiwan accounts for 94% of the world's most advanced semi manufacturing capacities.

How can you protect against economic espionage and talent poaching?

First black woman, but for many the interesting thing is she was a public defender before.

Ketanji Brown Jackson secures votes to win US supreme court confirmation : law 

#Australia #HumanRights

... with a clause empowering marriage officers to find out whether a bride price was paid. 

#Women #Culture

Chapter 7 of NATO to operate in Libya in protection of civilians.

This speech is seeing virality now in light of Ukraine.

Also interesting, it could just be the sources I have in front of me, but it seems Africa / Africans are having more of a voice on Ukraine than I remember them having. Their leader's speeches in places like UN counsels, their increased number of vloggers and bloggers. Also, it might be Africa will be able to argue with a lot of authority, given their experience over the past 100 years.

Mugabe Scary UN Speech Warning the World About NATO - YouTube

#NATO #Libya #Africa

... and Bitcoin went up. His order was to look into it and come up with what to do about it, it looks like.

It's being seen by many in the asset class as a defining or watershed moment (just because it's getting this kind of attention and treatment, not because there's anything concrete, which of course there's not).

There had been questions about crypto. How to regulate it? Who's going to regulate it? What kind of posture should the US have in terms of competitiveness and innovation in this technology?

People say the markets like certainty, even if sometimes it's something not positive, it's the certainty that the markets react positively to.

What does this mean as a new competitive infrastructure for the US? How does the US stay strong in this industry, while still addressing the risks?

How does the dollar work in this new world? How is it kept safe and sound, so this can grow and flourish?

US dollar competitiveness on the internet is a strategic national issue.

Bipartisan engagement about this issue.

One of the questions is whether the US should do a central bank digital currency.

China has a stable coin, but it has a lot of surveillance in it.

#Crypto

That basically means Speech.

25% of Latvia is Russians.

Czech said 1-3 years possible for supporting Russia.

#Latvia #Russia #Europe #CivilRights

The guys on Techlore said they didn't seen anything like that possibly happening in the States for decades. The only thing they could see was if they expanded the Fourth Amendment to include digital property.

#Brazil #LatAm #Privacy

Gives extra powers to police and Fed gov can now freeze bank accounts of the truckers and anyone associated with them (participating in roadblock, funding them), It also means they can revoke insurance on the trucks.

Reportedly, it also expands tax-funded terrorism and money-laundering laws to include crowdfunding websites.

GiveSendGo has ignored an order and given some of the millions raised for the trucker protest (from countries all over).

#CivilRights

MDM (mis-, dis-, and mal-information)

People who spread this could be considered 'threat actors.' If your words could lead to a protest against the gov, and that protest could lead to violence, they could label people who spoke those words domestic terrorists.

Iverson points out that many things that were originally labelled 'misinformation' turned out to be true over the past year or two.

"I'm the only first minister (of those who drafted the Charter in the early 1980s) left alive who was at that conference and helped draft these freedoms and these rights and the Constitution Act of 1982 itself. And I do this very reluctantly. I've been watching this thing for two years, I've been speaking out about it ... and I've come to the conclusion now that I must as a Canadian and as one of the writers and founders of the Constitution Act of 1982, not only speak about it. I must act about it. I must show Canadians that I'm so concerned as a citizen and as a former first minister ... that I must take action against my own government because they have violated rights that I and others helped craft in 1981-1982." - Brian Peckford

"There is a section in Charter of Rights and Freedoms which allows governments to override these freedoms in unusual circumstance. And I remember this very well when we were crafting the constitution. These unusual circumstances, because of putting it in the constitution, it's not a Federal act or a provincial act, it's in a constitution which is supposed to enshrine permanent values and give glue to the country. So this Section One can only be used, and I remember this well, in times of peril, in times of war and insurrection, or when the State is in peril, when the existence of the State is in peril."

"Even in the extreme circumstance that you try to make Section One apply ... then there are four tests that had to be met in order for it to apply. That means it must be demonstrably justified that what the action is is worthwhile. In other words, some kind of cost-benefit analysis must be done by law, it must be done within reasonable limits, and fourthly and most importantly, all those three must be done within the context of a free and democratic society. And a free and democratic society to me means parliamentary democracy in our country. We have 14 parliaments, and they have all been completely silent. There's no parliamentary committee anywhere in any of those 14 parliaments looking at what's happening to our country. There are the people's representatives."

He said that newspapers in the country, which in the past did carry his letters when he wanted to comment on some public policy, but since he started talking this way, they have not carried his letters, or even acknowledged that they've received his letters.

He noted that lots of news organizations in the country have received money from the government. Over $600m.

His legal team is basing their claim on the freedom of mobility guarantee (since he has to specify something). He commented that in Canada, the second largest country by land mass, freedom of travel was very important. The government has banned travel by plane and train (and sometimes highways, I've heard). "In other words, we can't travel across our own nation."

(He said they also considered freedom of association, and freedom of assembly. "Lots of people and churches were prevented from getting together.") (And there's currently a curfew in Quebec.)

"If us as first ministers had wanted to just have protecting rights and freedoms that could easily be changed, we wouldn't have gone to the constitution. We would have said, 'Just put an act in the Federal parliament, put acts in all the parliaments, and then up to the whim of the political party of the time to change it. We wanted to safeguard it, so it would be beyond the whim of political machinations and therefore could not be changed, only in the most extreme circumstances."

He also noted that the Oaks Test (coming from a Supreme Court case in 1986) about what Section One meant, and [in the current situation] the lower courts have not looked at this test. This is highly unusual because the courts always look to the precedent set by the highest court ... in determining what they will do in their case. The absence of seeing the Oaks test in the lower courts is very troubling and is the other reason we must take this kind of action at this time."

"And this is where I ... come down and say, 'We have to exhaust all of the civilized legal processes that we set up under our constitution. ..."

When asked what the current process was, if not by parliamentary discussion and decision, for the government to take these actions, ever the Charter rights, Peckford said, "Here's where the most insidious part of this equation comes into play. What the governments have done is used, in many cases, existing legislation under which they have the power to make regulation. So they've used existing emergencies, legislation, and inflated it enough or interpreted it in a manner that they can also use in this circumstance and therefore issue additional regulation. And then in other cases, they did not fully explain or have a parliamentary committee look at other amendments when they opened their parliament and closed it within two or three days or a week. In other words, sufficient debate wasn't allowed to understand the repercussions of what they were doing, when they were giving more power to the minister and more power to the public health officer."
He said it was worse than just not allowing debate, "because we had time. One can perhaps relieve or excuse, if one wants to, and say, For the first 90 days, when this thing began, you could make an argument that OK, the government's had to move. But in any rational way if they had used the emergency measures planning that was already in place, they would have moved to protect the vulnerable first. And then did a study on the rest. What else do we need to do in society. What they did is just a cart blanche over all of society without giving second thought to it."

"... not only are the vaccines destructive. More destructive than any vaccine in our history, and that's a scientific fact, they have had time to adjust, and this is where they have not even been nimble."

He discussed that many decisions are made by government based on opinion polling of Canadians in the street, but that the polls were sometimes affected by advertising and (government subsidized legacy media) news, saying "Here they are advertising that you've gotta get vaccinated, on the television, and they're actually even doing ads for children, and trying to talk to children directly through a public ad, so they're feeding off themselves. They're creating enough fear so they'll get the poll they want to get."

"Canadians are very trusting of their government," he noted. (I've also noticed this a lot.)

#Canada #CivilRights

Biden Covid vaccine rules: Judge blocks mandate for federal workers 

#PIC #CivilRights

... 'in some cases.' As well assnging police a role of dealing with poor drug users in 'The Tenderloin.'

"If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgements of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgements, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery." - Chief Justice Roberts

Currently, the Texas law is the strictest in the States, banning abortion after 6 weeks, when 90% of abortions happen. The Supreme Court (Conservative majority) said OK, 5-4, this is a weird new thing, we don't understand it yet, weird procedural question, but abortion providers haven't given us enough reason to tell Texan judges not to enforce it.

R V Wade (1973) said 24 weeks. Are Women's rights being violated now, since abortions after 6 weeks are not being done. The Constitutionality won't be worked out, people say, until there's a real case brought forward (a lawsuit by a Texan--perhaps one of their anti-abortion groups like Right to Life) to be tried.

The Texas law is enforced in a unique way, which is why Conservatives on the Supreme Court said they didn't have the power to intervene here. State officials don't enforce it. Individual Texans sue both providers and anyone who aids and abets an abortion. Doctors said they would comply by not doing abortions after 6 weeks.

A civil avenue for any individual to sue anyone else for violating a certain law.

Americans to a considerable but not overwhelming degree would favor laws against abortions in the 3rd trimester (80% according to Gallup) and a slight majority (60%) would favor laws for the 2nd trimester.

Texas poll found 50% of Texas support making abortion illegal after 6 weeks. 67% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats said they supported these bills.

(This story has been going on for a few months now.)

#Abortion #Texas #SupremeCourt #Constitution #CivilRights

... judges were reassured by US promises to reduce the risk of Assange's suicide.

Assanges fiance and lawyers will appeal. The appeal will be on assurances, not on free speech of political motivation for extradition.

But his lawyers can also try to reverse the judgement by challenging last January's findings that Assange's leaks ammounted to a crime. We don't know if such an appeal would be heard.

#Assange #Journalism

#Integrity #Leadership #US

"A vaccine mandate for a disease that's just out in the world is not a hazard that's unique to the workplace. And using an emergency temporary standard to mandate a vaccine is not an appropriate use of the emergency temporary standard." - Sara Harbison, Pelican Institute

Link: Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'.

#EU #Germany #Privacy #Encryption

Kenosha, WI shooting. Shot 3 men, of which 2 died, at a protest against police brutality. Rittenhouse was 17, armed with an AR-15 style rifle, on the location to protect a car dealership.

This has been a massive news story for the past month, quite political between Dems and Republicans. The other day, a Dem news org issued a sort of personal correction where the host said they earlier thought Rittenhouse did the agressing, but now said it looked to them like he was aggressed against.

I only bothered to look at one or two videos on this, just to see what it was, at the start of the trial, and the video the news org showed made it look this way to me also. Unclear about events, but that Rittenhouse was agressing. And I'm not a Democrat news org. Some questions then about how the news presents unresolved legal accusations.

#Politics #Journalism

Barred from leaving their homes, with threat of a $500 fine. Applies to anyone not 'fully vaccinated' or previously infected.

65% of the country is vaccinated.

#Austria #EU

Protests:

A recent law made permission for production of food products in these two ways.

But on review, the Hellenic court annulled the permits because existing Greek law requires anesthesia for animals slaughtered, and said the halal and kosher production methods were 'inhumane' because they killed animals without first removing sensation to pain.

In recent years, 5 northern and eastern European nations have banned ritual slaughter.

US reps offering 'assurances' Assange will be treated OK. Assange reps highlighting CIA plans to kidnap, kill, etc.

#People #Assange #Integrity

In Poland there's a disciplinary chamber that, critics say, can make judges leave if they don't follow the 'right wing' party line.

The chamber, EU says, violates EU law because it compromises the independence of the judiciary in Poland.

ECJ decided this last summer and Poland accepted it, but Poland didn't really take any steps to remove the chamber.

The method of fines is standard for the EU when a country does something they don't like, but usually the countries fall into line.

In September, one of Poland's high courts (with ties to government it is said) also decided Poland's courts can overrule the ECJ.

#Poland #EU #Integrity #Independence

... such as that used by police. It's called 'biometric surveillance.'

It's not a law against, that they voted for. It's more of a statement against the idea.

#EU #Technology

He was an elevator operator who said someone or people did racial abuse to him.

 

What percentage of people would you guess would willingly have someone do racial abuse to them for even $137?

Groupies going backstage and getting the performer's number and hooking up were recast by the court/media as victims being groomed. Kelly's wife, a person he loved, was also treated as a crime.

It was reported as a victory for the MeToo movement.

3 years ago, a TV station employee alleged a prominent TV host groped her and used force to kiss her when she was an intern under him. She sued him for damages, and he countersued for damage of his reputation.

The trial she initiated ended today with the finding that she had not shown enough evidence to prove her boss had done so. The accused was not 'even' required to come to court to testify. Some feminists and others considered the trial something of a Chinese MeToo thing.

The woman, Zhou Xiaoxuan, said it was worth it either way, and she knew the outcome could have gone either way. "I am very honored to have gone through this together with everyone.'

She will appeal, she said.

#China #MeToo #Feminism #Sex

... but there were large protests outside city halls and hospitals over the freedom to chose. A further concern has to do with people not feeling the vaccines currently being offered are not adequately tested, we don't know enough about them, and they don't feel comfortable putting it in their bodies.

Legally, people have the freedom to choose they don't want a vaccine, according to Canadian employment lawyer Lior Samfiru. It can't be forced on them. He said it's actually a human rights violation (to require a medical procedure and also to distinguish between people who have and don't have Covid) as well. He said it's not legal for employers to impose it on employees, and if they let employees for this they are liable to pay severance (possibly up to 2 years). Samfiru said people who challenge their employers have a good chance of success.