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Former executives at France Télécom go on trial over staff suicides(theguardian.com)
1 points by privateprofile 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Brexit ads secretly run by staff of lobbying company(theguardian.com)
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Whotracks.me – Bringing Transparency to Online Tracking(github.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
"From the very beginning, Zuckerberg has shown a pattern of deflecting and discarding things and people that don’t conform to his worldview or his ambition. In the same way that Zuckerberg discarded people like the Winklevoss twins and
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Free-market groups helping the tobacco industry(theguardian.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
> It does not seem to me that governments will spend assets better than the best of the wealthy elite, just move it to someone that is much more unaccountable. It seems to me that history shows that a wealthy "elite" will spend
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National Enquirer’s parent company admitted to trying to undermine 2016 election(news.vice.com)
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A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook(news.vice.com)
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France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence(wired.co.uk)
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Conservative nonprofit with undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2M(washingtonpost.com)
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Chinese writer Tianyi sentenced to decade in prison for gay erotic novel(theguardian.com)
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Facebook shareholders call for Zuckerberg to step down as chair(euronews.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
I absolutely agree. Essentially, corporations with huge revenue streams get major tax advantages that are not available to local companies in exchange for "creating jobs". It turns out that each of those jobs is so costly to taxpa
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by privateprofile 8y ago
That, and the fact that the government has decided to keep giving away EU visas to people from geographies that are notorious for corruption (e.g. Brasil, Angola, China) in exchange for meager (500K€) real estate "investments" [1]
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by privateprofile 8y ago
Gentrification, mass tourism and special privilege for some people that can afford to buy entire buildings are causing major social issues: - https://www.euronews.com/2017/09/19/lisbon-s-tourism-magnet-... -
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by privateprofile 8y ago
Even before that (in 1953) they seem to have been directly responsible for the trouble they're now getting from Iran, by deposing a democratically elected government and installing a friendly puppet (to whom they supplied the nuclear t
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How America's 'most reckless' billionaire created the fracking boom(theguardian.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
Off-topic, but dogs and rage aren't really a healthy (or necessary) combination...
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Can You Get Addicted to Pot?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by privateprofile 8y ago|3 comments
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by privateprofile 8y ago
"None of the company’s (Facebook) key executives has a “normal” Facebook presence. You can’t add them as friends, they rarely post publicly and they keep private some information that the platform suggests be made public by default, su
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A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy(theguardian.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
Exactly. I've seen this happen some 8 years ago, when the financial "crisis" hit, as the (larger) company that I worked for managed to not only stay afloat, but actually acquire at a very steep discount some of the smaller an
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London banking ‘lagging’ behind on hiring people from poorer backgrounds(fnlondon.com)
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Nevis: how the world’s most secretive offshore haven refuses to clean up(theguardian.com)
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by privateprofile 8y ago
"Exchange deal" seems like a euphemism for what's going on there: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/12/nevis-how-the-w...
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A 17-Year-Old Software Startup Just Hit a $1B Valuation(forbes.com)
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)(historyisaweapon.com)
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EU: data-harvesting tech firms are 'sweatshops of connected world'(theguardian.com)
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by privateprofile 9y ago
Exactly. In that case they arrested a couple of poor peasants, but the people/organizations that both financed and enabled it walk free. Like with drug labs in the jungle, all this cool technology is great for detection but ends up hit
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by privateprofile 9y ago
It's a tax haven with more bureaucratic secrecy than taxes: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060516/why-bahamas-...

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