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📡 for those of you who are just tuning in

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It surprises me when we get people who say they think this is the full output of our newsroom, but of course it is not. We simply care enough about the #fediverse to engage here.

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If you’re a teenager, the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) could have a disastrous impact on your ability to use many apps, platforms, and websites. Here’s why you should oppose it. #STOPKOSA #BadInternetBills https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/young-people-should-oppose-kids-online-safety-act
Young People Should Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act

Next week, Congress plans to move a bill forward that is opposed by dozens of organizations, digital rights protectors, LGBTQ+ activists, and human rights defenders: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). As we’ve written before, KOSA would lead to censorship and privacy invasions for all social media...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras

They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-do-not-recommend-ring/#intcid=_wired-right-rail_18b099fa-1f34-4ca7-95f3-d5b7cb99180e_popular4-1-reranked-by-vidi

Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras

They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

WIRED

How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises

In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts. #politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises

In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts.

ProPublica

Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance." #politics

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184561373/hamburger-marys-orlando-anti-drag-law-blocked-florida

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing opulence.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.