Mandating age verification "effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms," FPF's @CaitlinVogus and @AliyaBhatia write in @theintercept.https://t.co/m7aO8U2Hm9
@AmazonUK Your deliveries are the biggest issue for customers. Surely custom options would make everyone’s life easier + avoid theft and damage returns? See picture
I've been leaked a letter from the Telegraph's new owners.
It's now mandatory for the Telegraph's journalists to support Israel.
And their new owner's record is deeply disturbing 👇
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🚨If you do one thing this Sunday, sign this petition to STOP BLACKROCK IN OUR NHS.
If we don’t fight back against corporate takeover of our NHS from US corporations like Palantir and BlackRock, we will lose it.
Take action now before it’s too late. #NoToBlackRockInOurNHS
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Palantir’s infiltration into the British government is chilling. A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance and target vulnerable communities isn’t so far away
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@LeSurfeurQuiTue@CR1337 Both products have a 1990 user interface, it makes them impossible to use. Apple has major issues, but their products are streamlined & user focused.
NHS PAID £680K TO DESTROY THE DOCTOR WHO TRIED TO SAVE YOUR LIFE
Dr Jasna Macanovic was a kidney specialist with 20 years of excellent NHS service. She noticed that a needle technique being used on dialysis patients was causing complications. Bleeding. Clotting. Deaths.
She raised it internally. Nothing happened. So she went to the Care Quality Commission, then to the General Medical Council. That is literally what doctors are supposed to do.
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust @PHU_NHS responded by sacking her for serious misconduct.
The misconduct? Telling the regulators. They called her aggressive and intimidating.
The tribunal called it a predetermined act of unfair dismissal. There was no contributory fault on her part. Zero.
She spent five years fighting them. The trust spent £680,000 of public money on lawyers to defend the indefensible. She was awarded £219,000.
The people who ran the disciplinary process against her, the tribunal described it as a counter-offensive, were later promoted.
The medical director who launched the action against her moved on to a board role elsewhere.
The CEO got a bigger job covering two NHS trusts.
Nobody was struck off. Nobody was held accountable.
The CQC investigated the medical director and found no breach. The same CQC that had texted Dr Macanovic in 2016 to tell her she was protected and could not lose her job.
Raise a concern, get destroyed, win at tribunal five years later, watch everyone responsible get promoted.
@NHS has a Freedom to Speak Up policy.
It is largely decorative.
Source: protect_advice.org_uk / Employment Tribunal Case 1400232/2018 /
These days, every internet-connected device you own can be bricked by the company that made it. Amazon is killing working Kindles on May 20. Google did it to Nest thermostats. Sonos did it to speakers. The hardware works fine. They just stop giving it permission to function.
“Mogilevich handed over kompromat videos of Orbán to the FSB in exchange for the Kremlin’s agreement to overlook his tax issues… thanks to Mogilevich, Putin had Orbán exactly where he wanted him” @craigunger
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Today I broke a story [with help from @linfitlass] about Reform UK potentially fixing their competition to provide energy bills to a whole street.
It's a big deal and should, by rights, be picked up by mainstream media.
Luckily, there's one proper, reliable news outlet that have and are publishing my full article on Monday. Obvs its Byline Times.
But … why have the BBC, Sky News etc. missed this?
I'm not blowing my own trumpet at all, but so far, the story has had over 1.5 million views on my 𝕏 feed today.
A genuine public interest story about a potential fraudulent attempt by a political party, but it's being ignored, as always ... because it's Farage.
This is serious. Aside from Byline Times, The Nerve and the New World, the rest have capitulated to the far-right and Bannon's play.
If any outlets want to discuss this story, you know where I am.
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Outcry is growing over Palantir’s unholy alliance with the NHS - but it’s not enough yet.
Thiel isn’t the kind of villain who walks away from hundreds of millions.
Let's keep up momentum. Sign our petition ✍️ https://t.co/p76sm8HF3k
Orban’s security have tried to stop people filming his massive country estate. The police showed up when I was reporting in his village. That’s because he lives like a corrupt oligarch whilst claiming to be a man of the people.
Palantir now have access to all NHS emails of staff, no permission from staff needed. This will ramp up calls to end the £330m contract with Palantir and its Foundry asap
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@ReclaimTheNetHQ@JoshC0301 George Orwell: In my book 1984 I invented an internally oppressive British society as a cautionary tale
The British state: At long last, we have created the society from the classic novel 1984