Category: Oppression
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Release from hospitals. The new dark ages of science…
Michael Schumacher discharged from hospital, ‘difficult road’ still ahead. Or in other words: Michael Schumacher “released from hospital”, as the main page of the CNN said on 9/9/2014. (1) Odd, how we use the same term for the release of someone from prison, to his exit from a hospital. Foucault knew something. We are all…
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Internet, Brazil, freedom via oppression…
Brazil’s internet now has its own bill of rights. On 23 April, the country’s president, Dima Rousseff, signed the Marco Civil da Internet, a bill that sets out new guidelines for freedom of expression, net neutrality and data privacy for the country’s 100 million internet users. (1) Can freedom be determined by a… law? Can…
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iPhones, art and the need of the masses to be oppressed.
A $1m (£610,000) painting by Pablo Picasso has been won by a US man who paid just 100 euros (£83) for a ticket in an online charity raffle. (1) Art is and has always been expensive. It is as if the rich want to keep the priviledge of dreams and emotions to themselves. Art was more…
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Climate: Censoring views vs. Imposing views…
A premier science museum in North Carolina has sparked some controversy by refusing to show an hour-long film about climate change and rising sea levels. “The suppression of information is not in in the spirit of what a museum ought to do,” says Charles “Pete” Peterson, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina’s…
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Turkey, sex, oppression…
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s proposal to ban cohabitation for male and female students has garnered criticism nationwide. (1) Should religion or anyone else impose values? If not, what would happen if we have NO values whatsoever? Is banning pre-marital sex right? Is fucking around like pornstars right? Surely now we are somewhere in the middle.…
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