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Well, the BBC headline avoids saying it was the Israelis killing her, they just say that the killing and the shots happened concurrently, but it fails to establish cause-effect.

Well, it still uses “fatally shot” instead of “killed”. And there is evidently no reason to do so, since they use “killed” in the article enough.

No, but governments with authoritarian tendencies, especially those with a nationalist streak, put a hard focus on international sports competitions as a matter of national pride. Starting with the Nazi German Olympics being the first televised event in human history, look at the Russian doping scandals, or how the Hungarian prime minister has a gigantic stadium in his tiny home village.

Competing in sports is okay. So is being an obsessed fan. When the government becomes an obsessed fan, that’s when the weirdness starts.

President Xi Jinping, reportedly a big football fan, once expressed his hopes to turn China into a “global football superpower”.

It is not okay to say this in an official capacity.

I guess the problem is that app developers write the installers, and they suck at following conventions. Obligatory fuck Snap, as it creates a folder in the home dir, and it doesn’t even bother to hide it, and it is not even reconfigurable.

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

or /opt, or a binary in some hidden folder in /home…

The problem is not that they use the passive voice, it’s that they use the passive voice systematically for one side and the active for the other. It’s always “Hamas kills” versus “shot dead by the IDF”, and usually the “by the IDF” part is buried in the article instead of the headline.

It’s fighting an uphill battle.

The US is doing everything it can to stonewall, and statements it made regarding it being dumbfounded that the ICC can also prosecute its allies, and that it’s not just a weapon to use against its enemies, reeks of colonialist hubris.

Is this “retaliation” since the ICC charged Israel? Didn’t they notice they also charged Hamas?

Also, is this going to be faster than the Trump prosecution?

Mulcaire said in his statement that Clearview doesn’t fall under EU data protection regulations.

“Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR,” he said.

It stole personal data of EU citizens, which is a crime in the EU and the US.

I guess that’s how they make a lot of money, selling their own Confluence plugin.

Brazil is well within its rights to sanction Starlink and prosecute people for evading said sanctions, and have people pay fines and go to prison for buying Starlink with Bitcoin.

Just like the US does with Iran and Cuba.

It couldn’t find the Polish national broadcaster either. It’s a tiny bit US centric.

I’m of two minds about this.

On the one hand, you have places like Hungary, where the government is blatantly abusing spyware like Pegasus against members of the media, civil activists, and members of the opposition. If you live in Hungary, and you are involved in any significant organizing, you will most likely notice your phone calls having a small lag as you talk to the other party. The mayor of Budapest had so many private conversations leaked (nothing earth-shattering, just stuff like politicking inside the opposition) that it’s a meme at this point.

On the other hand, we are in an information war with Russia and, to a lesser extent, China. Do we give up these tools, take the high road, and risk another fiasco like Brexit? Do we let German military intelligence tap Russian phones to help Ukrainians? Do we let the Bundespolizei or Europol do the same to suspected foreign drug or human traffickers? Do we let them do it to domestic ones? What if they are also politicians?

IMO it just needs to be transparent and auditable after the fact and have a very clear warrant process where dragnets and the like are explicitly disallowed, and all requests by the police to do this have to be public after the fact, while the military has to be explicitly disallowed from doing it to any EU citizen.

But I know what we’ll have is weird politicking around this, with VdL and her neolib ilk still trying to push that dragnet chat control nonsense over and over and over again.

The comments here are weird TBH. No, Brazil will not start shooting down satellites. It can just simply outlaw and sanction Starlink, stop anyone from paying Starlink for their internet subscription, and have peeps go around and confiscate ground stations.

Also, they can just go and ask the US to help enforce their ruling, telling them “do you want to be friends with us or Musky boi?”

Qatar funds Hamas.

I mean, so does Israel.

Wages in my home country tends to be so low that a return plane ticket can be months of pay or more for some. I’m talking living your life in the same horizon poor.

I think I’m misunderstood, by entitlement I don’t mean feeling entitled, I mean legal entitlement. She had no right to travel, my family is from a former Warsaw Pact state. The border guard would not let you pass.

We all face our hardships, I’m sorry that your family had to face that as well. It must have been heartwrenching.

I understand, and me too. What I’m saying is just that when I was growing up, this would have been incomprehensible. At the time I was born, people where I grew up were not automatically entitled to travel outside the country, and the country was like 600 km across the longer way.