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How technology is helping people with speech impairments to talk
I am sitting staring at a computer screen. So far so banal, except that this screen features a red dot that, by some technological magic, tracks the movement of my eyes: I can place it where I want on the screen just by looking. The bottom of the screen portrays…
ACLU argues Facebook ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment
WASHINGTON — Freedom of speech on Facebook is at the heart of an appeals court case in Virginia involving an elected sheriff who fired staff members who “liked” his rival on the social networking site. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week associated itself with the case in Newport…
Corrupt capitalism trumps First Amendment
Contrary to the claims of conservatives, our Constitution does not guarantee the right to unfettered, utterly corrupt capitalism to allow the top 1% of our society to suck up all the wealth created by the working people of this country, leaving the rest of us to live paycheck to paycheck,…
Define “freedom”
Scott Swenson has an interesting piece about the way that the right has warmed up so much to the use of lies to push their agenda that they’ve gotten so thick in it that they probably have problems telling lies from the truth. Let’s be clear. I don’t know anyone…
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