“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“The Commerce Department’s order should allow ZTE to at least partially resume operations, though it appears to be narrowly targeted to really only allow for maintenance and the benefit of customers, and not deployment of new products. By and large, the trade ban is still in place.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17532508/zte-ban-us-temporarily-lifts-security-updates
“The six-year legal saga is widely seen as a test for how far the United States can reach globally to apply U.S. firms’ intellectual property rights.”
“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.”
“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/
“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/
“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/
“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
“‘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
“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