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kcra.com/article/sacramento-po
"Sacramento police body camera video obtained as part of an audit of complaints against officers shows a 10-year-old girl in tears being handcuffed in her pajamas"
"Police Chief Kathy Lester addressed the handcuffing of the girl, who is Black"

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is testing a three strikes and you are out rule against users who use ad blockers. This bug by design or misfeature goes directly against how many users use the Web. I understand that YouTube has to make money from free tier users, but ad blocking is a simple security feature to many. There’s got to be another way, the way YouTubers make money with sponsors is good, now YouTube have to figure out something similar. bleepingcomputer.com/news/tech

Kolektiva social has been compromised. The feds raided the home of an admin for attending a protest and walked out with the database for the instance.

To be fair, it's hard for dusty fantasy world politics to compare to a murder mystery in a mansion on an isolated island where they fight over the grandfather's inheritance.

Or far better, Higurashi.

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I don't find Ciconia anywhere as interesting as Higurashi or Umineko, although curiously, there are characters who are black in it.

I don't find Ciconia anywhere as interesting as Higurashi or Umineko, although curiously, there are characters who are black in it.

A Dutch petition to oppose the E.U. Chat Stasi.

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Dear Dutchies, it's time to sign the ongoing petition against the EU Chat control: https://citizengo.org/nl/node/211051 Please boost! #chatcontrol ...
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It's funny how Former Telecom France CEO Thierry Breton wants censorship of "hate speech" which his own country's (France) constitutional court found to violate the French Constitution.

The entire bill should be scrapped and set on fire. As it deserves. It's such a brazen abuse of state power.

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Well, it's nice that Musk is belatedly pushing back on the DSA (it's big, nasty, and censorious).

Twitter requires you to login now? What is this guy thinking...

reason.com/2023/06/30/chicago-

"Chicago SWAT teams relying on unverified search warrants to ransack houses; hold families, including children, at gunpoint; and, in one case, handcuff an 8-year-old child. In another case, 17 Chicago police officers burst into a family's house with their guns drawn during a 4-year-old's birthday party."

U.S. Supreme Court rules that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

1) They shouldn't sell them to under 18s. I'm surprised that would be a thing in Ireland.
2) Meh. I don't have a strong opinion on this.
3) I don't agree with banning flavoured vape liquids.

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The UK government's announcement that websites will need to verify or estimate the age of users to stop kids from seeing pron ignores risks to privacy.

Collecting large pools of biometric data without proper governance structures in place will swap one harm for another.

➡️ Our response: openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy

Apparently, Reddit is breaking privacy laws by restoring deleted posts after someone deletes them.

reason.com/2023/06/29/florida-

1) Uhhh.... I'm not sure it's appropriate to use jails for family discipline.

2) Well, yeah, Snapchat shouldn't be held liable for simply providing a "disappearing message" function.

If someone abuses it, as this teacher did to send a "sexually explicit image" to a student, she is responsible for doing so.

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