Monthly Archives: July 2018

European link tax, compulsory copyright scanning sent back to the drawing board

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“The law will now be sent for a full reconsideration and debate inside the parliament, during which activists will try and remove the controversial Article 11 and 13. Article 11 has been referred to by campaigners as instituting a ‘link tax’, by forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay to use snippets of content on their own sites. Article 13 adds rules that make tech companies responsible for ensuring any copyrighted material is not spread over their platforms. Those rules could force technology companies to scan through everything their users post and check it doesn’t include copyrighted material.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/european-copyright-laws-memes-link-tax-article-13-11-a8432486.html

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Post Office to pay sculptor $3.5 million for using wrong Statue of Liberty

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“Unused stamps accounted for more than $70 million in Post Office revenue during the three years Davidson’s image was used. The court awarded Davidson a five percent royalty for those unused stamps.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/post-office-owes-3-5m-for-using-wrong-statue-of-liberty-on-a-stamp/

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Growing Public Employee Benefits Forcing School Cuts

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“Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return.”

Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/22/growing-public-employee-benefits-to-force-school-cuts/

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College students are investing in bitcoin with financial aid money

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“More than 20 percent of college students use their financial aid money to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to new findings by The Student Loan Report, a website for student loan information.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/college-students-use-financial-aid-money-to-invest-in-bitcoin.html

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How much are social justice warriors costing their colleges?

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“It turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business.”

Read more: https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/the-true-cost-of-the-stepford-student/

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Schools Have Created a Generation of Permit Pattys and BBQ Beckys

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“Calling the police on nonviolent license offenses is the adult equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum on the playground, except the temper tantrum doesn’t have a chance of ending in shots fired.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/schools-have-created-a-generation-of-permit-pattys-and-bbq-beckys/

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Man Faces 30 Years In Federal Prison For Sexting His Legal-Age Girlfriend

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“It defies all reason that a man could go to prison for three decades for taking a sexy picture of a teenager who was deemed fully capable of consenting to sex. This is a travesty of justice, a violation of consenting adults’ sexual freedoms, an abuse of mandatory minimum sentencing, a blow to states’ rights, and an absurd waste of the FBI’s time.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/05/sexy-pictures-17-child-porn-arrest

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Cop Tases Drug Suspect in the Back For Not Crossing His Ankles Quickly Enough

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“‘Oh come on, bruh. You’re really going to tase him? He was sitting down,’ shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. ‘That’s crazy. That’s why I record everything.'”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/pennsylvania-lancaster-officer-tasing

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Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

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“Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance.”

Read more: https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology

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Facebook Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech

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“America’s founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara

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