EDRi-gram, 2 May 2024
Last week, the European Parliament was doing everything everywhere all at once in the run up to the final plenary before the June EU elections. Let’s run through some of the highlights.
In a disappointing move that will endanger medical secrecy, the European Parliament passed the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This law will expose everyone’s medical records to unnecessary security and privacy risks in the name of research and “innovation”. The Parliament also took its final step on the much touted Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act last week. With the final version of the law full of loopholes and missed opportunties, we’re left to contend with how to keep advocating for the protection of peope’s rights and fight against biometric mass surveillance.
We also directed our attention towards the European Commission’s concerning decision to allow unrestricted data flows to Israel. Together with Access Now and 11 other civil society groups, we wrote to the Commission to ask for clarity on this decision.
The post EDRi-gram, 2 May 2024 appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
Coming soon: A civil society summit on tech, society, and the environment
We are excited to announce that EDRi will be co-hosting the “Tech and Society Summit” this fall, in October 2024. This event aims to foster dialogue and debate between civil society and recently elected EU decision-makers, focusing on the intersection of technology, society, and the environment.
The post Coming soon: A civil society summit on tech, society, and the environment appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/
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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.
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Meanwhile, the company has filled our skies with at *least* 420 airplanes with defective, red-painted parts that were locked up in the MRSA cage, then snuck out and fitted to an airplane that you or someone you love could fly on the next time you take your family on vacation or fly somewhere for work.
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On 737 MAX whistleblowing - I got this from the antiwork subreddit:
Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months
He was represented by the same legal company as Dean Barnett, who died from a gunshot.Newshub
De autofabrikanten hadden aangegeven dat ze locatiegegevens van de voertuigen van hun klanten alleen na een gerechtelijk bevel met opsporingsdiensten zouden delen, maar de praktijk is anders.
'Autofabrikanten breken belofte over delen locatiegegevens met politie'
Amerikaanse senatoren hebben de Amerikaanse toezichthouder FTC opgeroepen een onderzoek naar autofabrikanten in te stellen, ...www.security.nl
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Autofabrikanten breken belofte over delen locatiegegevens met politie https://www.security.nl/posting/840010/'Autofabrikanten+breken+belofte+over+delen+locatiegegevens+met+politie'
De autofabrikanten hadden aangegeven dat ze locatiegegevens van de voertuigen van hun klanten alleen na een gerechtelijk bevel met opsporingsdiensten zouden delen, maar de praktijk is anders.
'Autofabrikanten breken belofte over delen locatiegegevens met politie'
Amerikaanse senatoren hebben de Amerikaanse toezichthouder FTC opgeroepen een onderzoek naar autofabrikanten in te stellen, ...www.security.nl
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The future of our fight against biometric mass surveillance
The final AI Act is disappointingly full of holes when it comes to bans on different forms of biometric mass surveillance (BMS). Despite this, there are some silver linings in the form of opportunities to oppose BMS in public spaces and to push for better protection of people’s sensitive biometric data.
The post The future of our fight against biometric mass surveillance appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Der Pirat-o-mat ist online: Ab sofort kannst du deine Standpunkte mit 12 echten Abstimmungen im EU-Parlament vergleichen. Ein Archiv unserer Abstimmungsgrafiken liefern wir mit.
Pirat-o-mat - Pirat-o-mat – Wie hättest du abgestimmt?
Der Pirat-o-mat stellt dir Fragen, über die das EU-Parlament wirklich entschieden hat. Du erfährst, ob die Europaabgeordneten der Piratenpartei und der…Pirat-o-mat
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100%. Bei *den* Themen wäre ich auch sehr irritiert und enttäuscht, wäre es anders.
https://www.piratomat.de/thema/wie-piratig-bist-du/?so-piratig-bin-ich=dIwpvAGTNUMk
12 Fragen zu Netzpolitik, Bürgerrechten, Demokratie - Pirat-o-mat
Du möchtest herausfinden, wie sehr dir Themen wie Transparenz, Datenschutz, digitale Rechte und Bürgerbeteiligung wirklich am Herzen liegen? Mach jetzt den Test.Pirat-o-mat
NJ court to journalist on publication of official’s address: Do you feel lucky, punk?
Laws that prohibit journalists from reporting truthful information about public officials are unconstitutional censorship. Redacted by opensource.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
If the head of the police department in your town lived so far away that he couldn’t be bothered to attend city council meetings and other community events, you’d want to know about it, right?
That’s exactly what New Jersey journalist Charlie Kratovil thought when he used a public record to reveal that Anthony Caputo, the New Brunswick, New Jersey, police director and head of a powerful city board, actually lived more than two hours away, in Cape May.
As thanks, Kratovil got a cease-and-desist letter from Caputo, who has since retired, threatening him with civil fines and even criminal prosecution under a state statute known as Daniel’s Law that prohibits the publication of the home address or telephone number of certain public officials.
Now, a new decision by New Jersey’s court of appeals in a case brought by Kratovil over Daniel’s Law has set a concerning precedent that could embolden lawmakers in the state and elsewhere to take up the censor’s pen against journalism.
Kratovil, represented by the ACLU of New Jersey, argued that Daniel’s Law was unconstitutional as applied to his reporting. While he hadn’t yet published Caputo’s exact street address in his reporting, he argued that prohibiting him from doing so violated the First Amendment.
The lower court and court of appeals rejected Kratovil’s argument that applying Daniel’s Law to his reporting violates the First Amendment. The appeals court concluded that the government has a compelling interest in protecting public officials from threats that could occur if their addresses are revealed. It also said that publishing Caputo’s exact address isn’t in the public interest, because all that really matters is the fact that he lives in Cape May, which the city of New Brunswick and Caputo begrudgingly conceded Kratovil could publish.
Laws that restrict truthful reporting are a bad idea
Protecting public officials from safety threats is important. But the answer isn’t to restrict truthful reporting. Kratovil’s dispute with Caputo shows exactly why government secrecy laws are a bad idea.
When we give officials the power to tell journalists what they can and can’t print, even in the name of privacy, officials inevitably try to stop reporting that they find embarrassing or inconvenient. That’s precisely what happened in this case.
When Kratovil first reached out to Caputo to ask if he lived in New Brunswick, the police department responded that his place of residence couldn’t be released under Daniel’s Law. Caputo then sent his cease-and-desist letter after Kratovil, at a city council meeting, said the street name where Caputo lived in Cape May, not his exact address.
Using a broad interpretation of Daniel’s Law, Caputo tried to bully Kratovil from reporting that he lived too far away to regularly attend city meetings. Caputo and the city didn’t change their tune until they were sued and it became clear how bad it would look to argue that a reporter can’t even name the city where the director of police lives.
But other journalists might not have the resources to fight back like Kratovil did. New Jersey officials who want to kill a news story raising questions about where they live, questionable real estate deals, or potential conflicts of interest can use Daniel’s Law to threaten reporters with fines or even jail time every time they want a news story killed.
Government secrecy laws like Daniel’s Law open the door to government censorship, either in law or through official pressure.
Court gets it wrong on the First Amendment
These kinds of government secrecy laws are also unconstitutional, despite what the New Jersey appeals court held in Kratovil’s case.
Kratovil got Caputo’s address from a public record. The Supreme Court has specifically held that a reporter can’t be held criminally or civilly liable for publishing truthful information obtained from public records, even in the face of privacy concerns.
The appeals court tried to brush Supreme Court precedent aside by deciding that Caputo’s exact address isn’t a matter of public concern. But being allowed to report where an official lives in vague terms isn’t as powerful as being able to prove it with specific information from public records, especially in an age when people often try to discredit journalism they dislike by labeling it “fake news.”
The First Amendment also requires that Daniel’s Law doesn’t restrict more speech than necessary to serve its goal of protecting public officials. But Daniel’s Law prohibits publishing an official’s address in the newspaper or just to a neighbor and regardless of the actual risks. It also doesn’t consider any alternatives, like providing additional protection to officials who are threatened.
Finally, the court of appeals said that Kratovil was not prohibited by Daniel’s Law from reporting Caputo’s address, because he remained free to publish it and face punishment after the fact. This was, essentially, the legal equivalent of, do you feel lucky, punk?
But numerous courts — including the Supreme Court — have held that government officials who try to shut down speech by threatening sanctions are imposing a prior restraint. When Caputo — the head of the police department — sent a letter to Kratovil threatening him with civil and criminal prosecution for publishing his address, it was a prior restraint. No journalist would feel free to try their luck publishing the address in the face of such a threat.
Copycat laws could be next
Kratovil has vowed to appeal to the New Jersey Supreme Court. It’s essential that he does, not just to challenge the law in New Jersey, but to stop a wave of copycat laws from springing up around the country.
Lawmakers are clamoring to make information about themselves and their fellow government officials off limits to the public. Congress previously enacted a federal equivalent of Daniel’s Law that bans basic facts about judges from being reported online. Last summer, it tried to sneak an equivalent provision into national defense legislation that would have censored information about members of Congress. That attempt failed, thankfully.
States other than New Jersey are also considering laws similar to Daniel’s Law. Maryland, for example, is working on a bill to prohibit the personal information of judges from being published.
These bills are popular because people rightfully want government officials to be safe. But that safety can’t come at the expense of the public’s ability to oversee the people who govern or police them. If upheld, New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law may become a model for chilling journalism around the country. The New Jersey Supreme Court must strike it down.
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Felony charges against Austin journalist are authoritarian bullying
"The University of Texas at Austin" by nick.amoscato is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Authorities should immediately drop all charges against Carlos Sanchez, the photojournalist arrested last week while covering a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Texas at Austin. Sanchez has reportedly been charged with assault on a peace officer, a second-degree felony.
“Violently arresting journalists and then charging them with felonies is unacceptable, authoritarian bullying,” said Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern. “It’s doubly bad when police were there to shut down free speech in the first place.”
Contrary to the police affidavit in support of the arrest, video of the incident does not show Sanchez intentionally hitting an officer with his camera, and there is no reason why a local television journalist, who was there to cover the protests, not participate in them, would strike an officer.
That’s likely why Sanchez was initially only hit with a trespassing charge (which was dropped) before officers tacked on the ridiculous assault charge.
“Even after law enforcement assaults of journalists covering protests in 2020 resulted in millions in settlement payments, many officers clearly haven’t learned their lesson,” Stern added.
“As even the U.S. Department of Justice has acknowledged, protests are newsworthy, and journalists need to be allowed to cover them and their aftermath, even when protesters are dispersed,” Stern said.
“It’s important to keep in mind that none of this would have happened if American universities weren’t inviting militarized police forces onto campuses to break up student protests,” he added. “The police response to the protests — against journalists and students alike — has been far more violent than the protests ever were.”
Authorities should drop the charges and apologize to Sanchez. Those involved in this needless assault on press freedom need to be held accountable.
http://freedom.press/news/felony-charges-against-austin-journalist-are-authoritarian-bullying/
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https://european-pirateparty.eu/right-to-repair-less-waste-more-consumer-protection/
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Less waste, more consumer protection: MEPs adopt ‘Right to repair’ position | European Pirate Party
Strasbourg, 21/11/2023 – Today, the European Parliament adopted its position on the ‘right to repair’ law. The new rules will make it easier for consumers to get their defective products repaired, reducing the need to discard them.nriss (European Pirate Party)
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/30/nix-fix-the-tix/
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ORG Response to the ICO “consent or pay” consultation
Avviso contenuto: Our response to the ICO consultation on their regulatory approach to pay or consent Open Rights Group remains available for further comments or clarifications at the contact below Mariano delli Santi, Legal and Policy Officer: mariano@openrightsgroup.org
Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode...eventually. Guessing *which* of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely high on my list.
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Perhaps, chopping up the enourmous Hogs for the Wolves to feast on? Because nothing changes till the #trickledown idiocy stands unchallenged!
ORG’s Submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024
Avviso contenuto: ORG’s Submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee 1. Executive Summary · Open Rights Group, the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights organisation, is submitting evidence about its human rights concerns relating to the IPA Bill. · The requ
EuGH-Urteil: Gericht lässt Massenüberwachung des Internets zu
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/eugh-urteil-gericht-laesst-massenueberwachung-des-internets-zu/
EuGH-Urteil zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung: „Traurige Wende beim Schutz der Privatsphäre“
Facebook und Instagram: EU-Kommission untersucht Desinformation und Drosselung politischer Inhalte
Civil Liberties Union for Europe: Medienbericht fordert besseren Schutz vor Staatstrojanern
Surveillance and Hadopi: EU Court buries online anonymity a little further
Surveillance and Hadopi: EU Court buries online anonymity a little further
In its 30 April 2024 ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) shared its assessment of the legality of Hadopi's massive surveillance system. The ruling is disappointing.La Quadrature du Net
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Kick-off event for the 2024 European elections
Avviso contenuto: On May 1st, we will broadcast the kick-off event for the 2024 European elections of the Pirate Party Germany, which will take place online between 10 am and 8 pm. Many locations will be broadcast live and, in addition to an overview of the last 10 years o
Surveillance et Hadopi : la justice européenne enterre un peu plus l'anonymat en ligne
Dans son arrêt du 30 avril 2024, la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (CJUE) vient de rendre sa décision concernant la légalité du système de surveillance massif de la Hadopi. Cet arrêt est décevant.La Quadrature du Net
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Cela fait 10 ans que les États refusent d'appliquer les décisions de la CJUE en matière de protection des données de connexion. La Cour vient de leur donner raison en abandonnant une jurisprudence qui n'a jamais été appliquée.
Au-delà de la Hadopi, la CJUE permet donc un accès massif, automatisé et sans aucun contrôle indépendant aux adresses IP associées à l'identité civile de l'internaute et le contenu d'une communication.
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Parce que le monde numérisé grandit chaque jour en étendue et en complexité, parce que ses impacts sur notre planète sont de plus en plus prégnants, parce que les dispositifs de contrôle et de surveillance entrent toujours plus loin dans l'intimité d…La Quadrature du Net
Pour les personnes qui sont à Paris cette semaine, plusieurs évènements !
Jeudi à 18h30, nous serons à l’école des arts déco (ENSAD) pour parler de vidéosurveillance. Vous pouvez vous inscrire ici : https://www.ensad.fr/fr/videosurveillance-espace-public
Et vendredi soir nous organisons notre apéro mensuel dans nos locaux, au 115 rue de Ménilmontant, à partir de 19h. On vous parlera notamment de notre plan d’attaque contre les expérimentations de VSA qui viennent de débuter.
A très vite alors !
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Österreich: Ermittlungen gegen Bürgerrechtsorganisation wegen angeblichen Hackings
La FCC impone sanzioni per circa 200 milioni di dollari agli operatori wireless per la condivisione dei dati sulla posizione
La FCC ha affermato che T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T e Verizon hanno venduto i dati sulla posizione dei clienti e hanno esternalizzato i requisiti di consenso degli utenti.
https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-fines-wireless-carriers-200-million/
FCC takes $200 million bite out of wireless carriers for sharing location data
The Federal Communications Commission levied nearly $200 million in fines against four telecommunications giants Monday following an agency investigation that concluded the companies had sold location data of customers without their consent.djohnson (CyberScoop)
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Cosa sono i metadati delle comunicazioni e perché ci interessano? Il post di Anastasia Kolobrodova su @freedomofpress
«Quando le persone ci chiedono quale sia l'app di messaggistica migliore per loro, di solito ci piace parlare delle loro specifiche esigenze di privacy e sicurezza. Tuttavia, quando siamo chiamati a dare una risposta, nella maggior parte dei casi incoraggeremo i giornalisti a utilizzare Signal , in particolare se si trovano negli USA.»
https://freedom.press/training/blog/metadata-102/
Metadata 102 — What is communications metadata and why do we care about it?
Even if we encrypt our chats, they yield metadata — data about our conversations. Let’s talk about why it matters.Freedom of the Press
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Signal, essendo centralizzato, soffre delle debolezze di quelle architetture. Il top per me, invece, è open source, decentralizzato, snello, e se interessano i metadata, p2p o senza id. Ad esempio, cosa ne pensate di SimpleX?
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@De_Treias SimpleX è l'idea di messaggistica come la potrebbe immaginare un sistemista esperto affetto da livelli patologici di paranoia... 😷🤯😷🚑🏨
Scherzi a parte, credo che non esista nulla di più riservato sul mercato consumer, neanche Signal o Session (che quanto a paranoia non scherza 😅)
La vera criticità come al solito è la diffusione del sistema tra gli utilizzatori
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Il 70% degli americani secondo un sondaggio pensa che i social media abbiano troppo potere politico
Ben svegliati nel 2024.....
Finalmente qualcosa su cui entrambi gli schieramenti possono essere d’accordo: secondo un sondaggio del Pew Research le società di social media sono troppo potenti.
Nel complesso, questo punto di vista è diventato più popolare del 6% rispetto allo scorso anno delle elezioni presidenziali.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/social-media-companies-political-power-pew-survey/
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App Bancoposta: quella richiesta di accesso ai dati dello smarpthone che preoccupa per la privacy
Dall’inizio di aprile, molti utenti android dell’app Bancoposta hanno segnalato la presenza di un nuovo messaggio di richiesta di accesso ai dati dello smartphone.
App Bancoposta: quella richiesta di accesso ai dati dello smarpthone che preoccupa per la privacy - GDPReady
Dall'inizio di aprile, molti utenti android dell'app Bancoposta hanno segnalato la presenza di un nuovo messaggio di richiesta di accesso ai dati dello smartphone.Stefano (GDPReady)
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#StemPiraat
Bij de verkiezingen van het Europese Parlement op 6 juni 2024 is het mogelijk om op Nederlandse Piraten te stemmen. De Piratenpartij deelt lijst 20 met De Groenen. Als verkiezingsprogramma wordt het CEEP aangehouden. naam kandidaat voorletters woonplaats 1 Pontier M.A. (Matthijs) (m) Amsterdam 2 Sadloe S. (Saira) (v) Purmerend 3 van Rijn M.P. (Mirjam) […]
Het bericht #StemPiraat verscheen eerst op Piratenpartij.
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20 politieke groeperingen nemen deel aan Europees Parlementsverkiezing https://www.kiesraad.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/04/29/20-politieke-groeperingen-nemen-deel-aan-europees-parlementsverkiezing
20. Piratenpartij - De Groenen
20 politieke groeperingen nemen deel aan Europees Parlementsverkiezing
20 politieke groeperingen nemen deel aan de Europees Parlementsverkiezing op 6 juni. Er nemen in totaal 497 kandidaten deel. De Kiesraad verklaarde de kandidatenlijst van JEZUS LEEFT ongeldig.www.kiesraad.nl
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Zur Aufarbeitung der Pandemiemaßnahmen
Avviso contenuto: Mit Sorge beobachten wir PIRATEN den Diskurs zur Aufarbeitung der Corona-Pandemie. Die rückblickende Bewertung der damaligen Schutzmaßnahmen und die Reduzierung der Maßnahmen im Verlauf der…
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🇩🇪Leak: Kriterien zur Verhängung der #Chatkontrolle über einen Dienst, wenn es nach den Plänen von EU-Regierungen geht:
👁anonym nutzbar?
👁Pseudonyme verbreitet?
👁geschlossene Benutzergruppen möglich?
👁Livestreams möglich?
👁Direktnachrichten möglich?
👁Verschlüsselung? Vom Nutzer nicht abstellbar?
👁Zulassung von Kryptowährungen?
👁Videoinhalte?
👁keine Beschränkung der Downloads pro Nutzer?
👁P2P Downloads?
👁Nutzung über Anonymisierungsdienste oder öffentliches WLAN?
#PiratenWählen #JedeStimmeZählt
Leak: EU-Regierungen wollen datenschutzfreundliche und verschlüsselte Messaging-Dienste mit Chatkontrolle bestrafen
Ein neues Dokument zur geplanten Chatkontrolle, das dem Nachrichtenportal Contexte zugespielt wurde, enthüllt weitere Details über die Pläne der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft: Wenn Dienste unter Pseudonymen oder ohne Nutzeraccount, über VPNs oder mit Versch…Patrick Breyer
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#StemPiraat - Piratenpartij
Bij de verkiezingen van het Europese Parlement op 6 juni 2024 is het mogelijk om op Nederlandse Piraten te stemmen. De Piratenpartij deelt lijst 20 met DeWietze Brandsma (Piratenpartij Nederland)
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Cigna's nopeinator; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in Winnipeg (May 2) then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY (May 3) and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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The inevitable endpoint of private insurance - the nopeinator.
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@LiberalEd
Why they don't simply take money at gun point escapes me for the moment.
If you want health care, it's cheaper to fly out of country (Mexico, Thailand etc) to get the procedure and recuperate in a fancy resort for a few weeks, all for about 1/10th the cost.
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