Hours after Facebook reversed its controversial decision to prohibit Australians from accessing news content on the platform, the company announced its first proposed deal with one of the nation’s media organizations, Seven West Media. Alongside the statement on the discussions with Seven West Media, Facebook also revealed it is working …
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If you were a visitor from Mars arriving in the UK today, you could be excused for believing that there was something progressive about the UK government legislating to enable no-platformed academics, students or visiting speakers to sue universities for compensation where they feel they have suffered because of free …
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Authored by a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly N. Nick Perry, Bill A416 calls for the “removal and/or detention” of individuals who are identified as a “case, contact or carrier” of a contagious disease. “I knew Cuomo was a bit of an authoritarian anti-Semite but I never …
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President Trump has promised to veto a $2.3 trillion spending package that allocates $900 billion for coronavirus relief, and $1.4 trillion in other government spending. After Trump ordered Congress to increase direct aid to Americans from $600 to $2,000 and cut out a slew of cash bonuses for foreign countries, …
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The UNGA adopted the Russian draft resolution on “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” on Wednesday. The resolution called on member states to pass legislation to “eliminate all forms of racial discrimination,” and condemned …
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According to something called the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP), the EU “needs to use more systematically the full range of tools in its toolbox for countering foreign interference and influence operations, and further develop them, including by imposing costs on the perpetrators.” “Possible ways of doing so range from …
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The bill has been proposed by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and would also allow government officials to arrest people they suspect may spread the coronavirus through planned future action, such as anti-lockdown protesters. Public servants, union officials, or any other government staff such as protective services officers and WorkSafe inspectors …
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The Ministry of Finance of Russia proposed 2021-2023 years to reduce the costs of the State Duma and the Federation Council to 1.9 billion rubles. About it writes RIA Novosti with reference to the document “Methodology of calculation of the maximum baseline budget appropriations of the Federal budget on state …
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Unemployment in Russia should amount to at least living wage in the region, and the maximum payment — to reach the average wage. This position was formulated in the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia (FNPR), sending a letter to the Russian tripartite Commission on regulation socially-labour relations. If …
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In the State Duma introduced a bill to extend until March 1, 2026 dacha Amnesty and its extension, reports TASS. The draft law was made the head of the state Duma Committee on state construction and legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, and a group of senators. They offer to extend the simplified …
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