Report: Palestine Action : The UK Court of Appeal says the govt's Palestine Action ban is lawful.

It overturned an earlier High Court ruling that the govt's ban was "unlawful & discriminatory".

The High Court had said the govt ban was a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights regarding freedom of expression & peaceful assembly & also was inconsistent with UK govt policy.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-court-appeal-rules-favour-government-ban-palestine-action-uk-court-appeal-overturns

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #palestineAction #Autocracy #Democracy #racism .

You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-have-both-democracy-and-billionaires

#politics #democracy #classwar #culture #wealth

In a parallel universe somewhere, all of the non-fascist-led Western nations conspired together behind the scenes to use the push for age verification as a way to free their citizens from all US platforms, and migrate them to the fediverse and FOSS en massé in a well conceived & perfectly executed stunning maneuver.

#politics #privacy #democracy

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

Flock let internal police search records get crawled by DuckDuckGo and Bing, exposing the stated reasons officers ran license plate searches. The surveillance built to watch everyone could not keep its own audit trail off a search engine.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/flock-leaked-cop-searches-bing

#democracy #technology #privacy #surveillance #government

Fantastic, thoroughly explained, well researched/cited post from lawyer Matthew Butterick on the risk that AI poses to liberal democracies.

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

#AI #democracy

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Screenshot from a blog post showing text that reads: "AI is inher­ently polit­ical tech­nology. If AI works as intended, it will grad­u­ally corrode our liberal democ­racy, risking an irre­versible shift into another polit­ical and economic config­u­ra­tion. Among AI risks, this one deserves more consid­er­a­tion, because it requires no addi­tional condi­tions like malign actors or AI malfunc­tion. AI only needs to amplify existing trends, espe­cially around concen­tra­tion of capital. This damage will occur even assuming that in the near term, AI will broadly improve mate­rial well-being."

1/2 YES! I have been looking for something like this brilliant talk by @carissaveliz , that explains in a clear way exactly why democracy dies as privacy is taken away from us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

She is also spot on about how technology is not completely neutral. Pots and pans invite you to make food. Guns don't. In the same way, digitization and surveillance tech invites people to spy on others.

#privacy #democracy #surveillance

#AI data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

JFC

NO.

Time to end this nonsense.

Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

Let's STOP this, end this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/

#survielence #privacy #democracy #inflation #coup #techBro

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

If I were to attempt to put my political philosophy tonight into a single phrase, it would be this: Trust the people. Trust their good sense, their decency, their fortitude, their faith. Trust them with the facts. Trust them with the great decisions. And fix as our guiding star the passion to create a society where people can fulfill their own best selves — where no American is held down by race or color, by worldly condition or social status, from gaining what his character earns him as an American citizen, as a human being and as a child of God.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1956-09-13), “Democratic and Republican Administrations,” Pennsylvania Farm Show, Harrisburg

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #character #democracy #opportunity #progress #thepeople #wethepeople #equality

But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government