The Covid-19 pandemic has coughed up many issues about what our governments and public health authorities can do, none more controversial or divisive than those surrounding the mass compulsory vaccination of entire populations. And, today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) inadvertently weighed in on this hotly contested topic …
Read More »Mandatory vaccines are ‘necessary in democratic society,’ don’t infringe human rights, EU court rules
It’s the first time the ECHR has ruled on mandatory vaccinations for children against common diseases. While the case dealt with the Czech Republic’s laws that require schoolchildren to have jabs against diseases like whooping cough, tetanus and measles, it has implications when it comes to compulsory Covid jabs. Nicolas …
Read More »Bedside Big Brother? Homeworking employees to get mandatory webcams that allow AI to catch slackers
Teleperformance, a France-based outsourcing service giant with a workforce of 380,000 sprinkled across some 34 countries, is deploying “specialist” webcams to more closely monitor its home-working employees. An AI-powered digital watcher will check up on workers, ensuring they aren’t checking their phones, surfing the web, leaving their desks, or otherwise …
Read More »Mandatory ‘freedom bracelets’? Israel OKs Covid tracking tech after ‘satisfied volunteers’ prefer it to military-run quarantines
Lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday allowing authorities to mandate the so-called ‘freedom bracelets’ for citizens, after a previous measure requiring quarantine at government-administered hotels expired earlier this month. Now, Israelis will isolate at home by default, so long as they consent to wear the electronic tracking gadget. Proposed last …
Read More »Wyoming becomes latest state to end mandatory face coverings as GOP continues defiance of Biden’s Covid-19 mask push
Effective on March 16, bars, restaurants, theaters and gyms will be allowed to resume normal operations, and the statewide mask mandate will end, Gordon said on Monday in a statement. Masks will continue to be required in schools, and residents are encouraged to keep wearing face coverings in indoor public …
Read More »Canada’s mandatory Covid-19 hotel stays are not ‘internment camps’ but they are costly forced detention
Last October, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about this. His reply didn’t address the specific claim at hand, instead he spoke generally of “noise and harmful misinformation on the Internet,” and bizarrely urged people to resist “people who would sow chaos within our communities and our democracy.” (I …
Read More »Canada’s mandatory Covid-19 hotel stays are not ‘internment camps’ but they are costly forced detention
Last October, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about this. His reply didn’t address the specific claim at hand, instead he spoke generally of “noise and harmful misinformation on the Internet,” and bizarrely urged people to resist “people who would sow chaos within our communities and our democracy.” (I …
Read More »Smut giant Pornhub to fight abuse & revenge porn with MANDATORY ID of users & other snoopware. Be careful what you w*nk for…
After being raked over the coals by the New York Times in December for allegedly hosting a sprawling cesspool of child sexual exploitation, Pornhub took emergency measures to remove most of its content, lock the site down except for verified users, and open up its payment system to cryptocurrency users. …
Read More »‘Travel will continue for the rich’: Brits blast reports that they may have to pay for mandatory hotel quarantine after holidays
In a report on Friday, the Times – citing an unnamed government source – revealed that the government is considering a mandatory quarantine, which would force returning Britons to stay in a specially chosen hotel for ten days with security guards and other anti-Covid-19 measures. They would then be made …
Read More »Negative Covid-19 test to become MANDATORY for Slovakians to go to work, visit countryside
The plan is broken down into two phases. The first, which begins on Monday and will last for a week, will see Slovakians flocking to Covid-19 testing locations, including regular and mobile testing sites, to take either an antigen or a PCR test. From next Wednesday, January 27, Slovakians who …
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