"Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con." gizmodo.com/truth-social...
Read the complaints submitted to the FTC by users of Donald Trump's social media platform.
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“Bitte schreiben Sie eine Schimpftirade über Donald Trump im Stil von Thomas Bernhard.” (TL;DR: ChatGPT doesn't do Thomas Bernhard very well.)
Lee Savage: Short Subject (1967 | 1:10 min.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiK...
YouTube video by Subject 1
Despite the CCP's claims, UN Resolution 2758 does not establish the "One China Principle" as a matter of international law, but principally the right of the #PRC#China#UN#Taiwanese must urgently be remedied.
Hong Kong's government, which is currently on a spree of targeting its critics on sedition charges, is complaining that people are using pseudonyms to talk about declining freedom in Hong Kong. Gee, I wonder why that might be! www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...
![[too long, check link for full text] "The offences stipulated in the NSL and the SNSO clearly define their elements, penalties, exceptions and defences. These laws actively prevent, suppress and punish acts and activities that endanger national security, in accordance with the principle of the rule of law. Additionally, they target an extremely small minority of people and organisations that pose a threat to national security, while protecting the lives and property of the public. Law-abiding people including students, scholars, and other academics will not engage in acts and activities that endanger national security and will not unwittingly violate the law, and therefore have no reason to be worried."
The spokesman said, "We noticed that most of the interviewees of the so-called report have used pseudonyms, which is a tactics frequently adopted by anti-China forces, making it difficult to ascertain if the interviewees](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:d52g57qhdyydkmwtuueco57q/bafkreiduxkzrugm7m4x3gstognz2q6vedfoyz7jmnlz6d7ive3i64wlbr4@jpeg)
New 80-page Human Rights Watch report, “‘We Can’t Write the Truth Anymore’: Academic Freedom in Hong Kong Under the National Security Law,” out.
Academic freedom in Hong Kong has severely declined since the Chinese government imposed the draconian National Security Law on the city on June 30, 2020, Human Rights Watch and Hong Kong Democracy Co...
"… rising authoritarianism, if not actual totalitarianism, in China has turned the tables on Western universities. Instead of spearheading the liberalisation of China, they have become vulnerable to Chinese pressure in the opposite direction." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
Instead of spearheading China’s liberalisation, Western universities which benefit from Chinese money are increasingly vulnerable to pressure from its government
I'll believe billionaire tech moguls care about freedom of expression when they start developing tools to provide internet freedom for people in China and other authoritarian states, rather than cosying up to the CCP and asking Xi Jinping to name their newborn children.
"If […] the social dissolution wrought by neoliberal capitalism has revitalized fascism in the West, it has been similarly important in the rise of ethnonationalist dictatorship in China." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.