“A future full of always-listening devices will have its own complications, of course.”
“We finally have enough evidence to establish a theory about why so many law enforcement departments rolled over so easily. They recognized that body cameras were valuable assets when prosecutors needed evidence and malfunctioning junk when law enforcers might be shown in a bad light.”
Read more: https://blog.christopherburg.com/2018/07/11/body-cameras-are-for-the-benefit-of-prosecutors-not-you/
“The ‘lesson’ Finley learned here is pretty clear. Power usually wins.”
“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.”
“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
“Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance.”
“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
“The Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-sears-license-20180629-story.html
“A Clinton era federal law called the Adoption of Safe Families Act hands out federal funds to states based on the number of children the state takes from parents.”
“It’s absurd to think that the crime of ‘ethnic intimidation’ was meant to include citizens who angrily rant at cops who are arresting them.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/hate-crime-cops-nazi-black-man
