Here are some links to make you feel good (not)
- about police ignorance of basic civil liberties
- information coming out about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) “deal” (think who voted for it)
- big government / corporate collusion
- patent nonsense
- “you thought press gangs were a thing of the past”
- oh! and as an added bonus, information that Google will help you avoid seeing any word that upsets you – even though doing so alters the author’s intent and original work
(related stories below)
Police: Abortionists control public sidewalk That whole public sidewalk thing isn’t so public after all. If you maintain it you can bar people from it – Think of the implications, can you bar liberals from the sidewalk in front of your house?
Missing Links (trouble for bloggers journalists and more in TPP copywrite fineprint and algterations to it. Government to be original enforcer if it decides to be rather than the copywriter holder, whither or not they want enforcement?
Surprise! You bought it, but you don’t own it Johne Deere, GM team up to advocate that what you paid for isn’t yours. It cant be altered, even for your own purposes, not as matter of common warranty exceptions, but because it is theirs forever.
San Bernardino victims to oppose APPLE on encryption… That actually is good news, but not the underlying story. The government is demanding that Apple open a backdoor to a phone encryption it sold as secure. The backdoor does not exist, so government demands it create one. “You shall comply” “You shall work for us.” Ted Olson Calls Unlocking a ‘Pandora’s Box’… Much from Rush Limbaugh on this in today’s program.
Great news: New Google extension switches “pro-life” to “anti-choice”
Oh you sensitive souls, demanding protection from words you consider a micro-aggression or whatever. Now Google says it can protect you. Don’t like the word pro-life cuz you think differently – Google will change content you read on the Internet though written by others with their choice of words for the impact they wanted to impart, before you actually see it, to protect your sensitivities. And they are proud of it. Perhaps the apex of political correctness.