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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
Opinion: We are Israel's largest human rights group – and we are calling this apartheid
Opinion: We are Israel's largest human rights group – and we are calling this apartheid
Hagai El-Ad: The systematic promotion of the supremacy of one group of people over another is deeply immoral and must end
One cannot live a single day in Israel-Palestine without the sense that this place is constantly being engineered to privilege one people, and one people only: the Jewish people. Yet half of those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are Palestinian. The chasm between these lived realities fills the air, bleeds, is everywhere on this land.
One cannot live a single day in Israel-Palestine without the sense that this place is constantly being engineered to privilege one people, and one people only: the Jewish people. Yet half of those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are Palestinian. The chasm between these lived realities fills the air, bleeds, is everywhere on this land.
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from The Hedgehog Review
Magazine of The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at The University of Virginia
Call them warlords or the manorial elite, our massive transnational tech companies will protect us only when they believe it is in their interest to do so.
My first and ongoing feeling when I hear that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook and other social media is relief. I have the same feeling when I see Apple and Google and Amazon putting the screws to Parler, which was created to be a home for conspiracy theorists, fantasists, liars, and sowers of hatred. But then I think of this comment from a recent essay by Cory Doctorow: “The one entity Facebook will never, ever protect you from is Facebook.” We need to face quite clearly the fact that these recent events serve to consolidate the power of the tech giants—tech giants who quite literally have no principles to guide them other than self-interest, though they might occasionally discover reasons to act on our behalf. This is one element of the condition that the technologist Bruce Schneier calls “feudal security.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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