Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China’s one-child policy agency – which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations – s … ⌘ Read more

Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia’s ban on U.S. children’s gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban gains some momentum. In wartime Russia, censorship is extensive: Moscow blocks or restricts social media platform … ⌘ Read more

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
Kyle Cheney,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The one part of American democracy that is still working and enforcing the Constitution is the lower courts of the Judicial branch of government. The Supreme Court may have a “king” Trump fascist majority, to the outrage of the Constitution based minority, as one can tell from their dissenting, but the lower … ⌘ Read more

Earlier this week I found myself on the RIAA’s side in a legal dispute. Now I think Amy Coney Barrett got it right in her SCOTUS dissent. Truly we are in Bizarro World.

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