#5yrsago Someone’s finally going to jail over the #PanamaPapers: a Turkish journalist who reported true facts from them https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/09/journalist-pelin-unker-sentenced-to-jail-in-turkey-over-paradise-papers-investigation

#5yrsago A history of the sprawling personality clashes over #RSS https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss

#5yrsago American towns survive by fining poor people, and use #DebtorsPrisons to make them pay https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/magazine/cities-fine-poor-jail.html

#5yrsago LA school district prepares for #TeachersStrike with army of expensive scabs https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-teachers-strike-staffing-20190107-story.html

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#5yrsago The American Conservative: “The Dickensian Return of #DebtorsPrisons” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-dickensian-return-of-debtors-prisons/

#5yrsago As hoax-fueled #lynchings continue in India, #Whatsapp puts limits on video-forwarding https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/whatsapp-launches-new-controls-after-widespread-app-fueled-mob-violence-in-india/2018/07/19/64433ec9-c944-446f-8d82-8498234ee8a9_story.html

#5yrsago In-depth look at the Financial Times’ weekly guide to ostentatious status goods for tasteless one-percenters https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent

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#10yrsago #ExxonMobil, #FAA, Arkansas cops establish flight restriction zone, threaten reporters who try to document #Mayflower, AR spill https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/reporters-say-exxon-impeding-spill-coverage-arkansas/

#10yrsago French spies demand removal of a #Wikipedia entry, threaten random Wikipedia admin in France when they don’t get their way https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Statement_on_France

#10yrsago Widespread, illegal #DebtorsPrisons in #Ohio https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/outskirts-hope-how-ohios-debtors-prisons-are-ruining-lives-and

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