Simian Justice

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

From a leading British lawyer, for Zeteo UK today:
https://t.co/kVMNO16e7I

[Clean Up Gambling @cleanupgambling]

“If you’re not going to stand up to the gambling sector, who are you going to stand up to?”

Derek Webb on @LBC on why he won’t be donating to Labour again under Starmer.

[TSSA @TSSAunion]

A move in the right direction - but we need Labour to be more ambitious and reinstate the planned route of HS2 in full.

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

@lewis_goodall Why would giving the tech companies expanded surveillance powers get algorithmic pushback?

The fact I'm not seeing a hugely funded full court press from Silicon Valley is actually pretty instructive.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.

This is what they've said:

"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.

“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

LOL at Starmer talking about how social media is bad because it “records every mistake”. We don’t all go on LBC and endorse crimes against humanity live on air, mate.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.

Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.

The watchdog became the lapdog.

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

They also shot and killed his 12 year old son to punish him for not abandoning his hospital

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

This correct. It's a great game with chances at both end and a ref letting a bit of physicality and needle run through it. Thiago knows his onions.

[Adam Clery @AdamClery]

Mad reading about the UK coverage saying this is boring. In the US Javier Hernandez and Thiago Alcantara have said it's one of the best 0-0s you're likely to see and a great example for newcomers why you don't need goals for a game to be good.

... and that Diomande was brilliant

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain]

Netanyahu can’t stop the wars because the Israel that he created is a momentum entity where Zionism is a fanatically aggressive ideology like Bolshevism or Nazism that needs to keep attacking and expanding in all directions to keep from imploding internally.

At the same time the IDF cannot fight without U.S. intelligence, arms, and logistical support so if that is somehow severed in Lebanon to maintain a deal with Iran I expect Israel will pivot to attacking Syria or attempting to finish the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

It’s all fun and games and a big laugh until the Nazi zillionaire starts messing with *your* guy, isn’t it

[The Justin Horton Show @ejhchess]

Amazingly, something can be popular, unworkable and illiberal at the same time, and you'd have thought saying so would be a basic function of a liberal newspaper

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

@SteKelly198586 Snap.

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

Feel like I'm being trolled a bit here as the first game with the three #LFC lads involved slams the handbrake on and slows things right down. Japan disappointing too. Wake me up when the football starts.

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

@TotalLongo @OxtonSoulBoy @leeg909 Some barely known obscurity that did a thing first.

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

@TotalLongo @OxtonSoulBoy @leeg909 Yeah, was only thinking over here. Always think with stuff like this that if you wanted to use your time machine to change the world it's probably the guy who influenced the guy who influenced the guy who the big band heard that you bump off.

[Simian Justice @SimianJustice]

@TotalLongo @OxtonSoulBoy @leeg909 Little shout for The Specials? Bigger cultural impact than musical maybe?

[Ethan Shone @EJShone93]

Times puff piece on private equity boss saying the answer to all our problems is greater private sector involvement in defence procurement, and greater role for private finance. Something odd is happening in this country.

[Jamie Strudwick 🏳️‍🌈💚 @JamieStrud]

During this time, we’ve had five PMs (including Theresa May), three general elections, a global pandemic, multiple race riots, the rise and fall of the Labour Party, two US presidential elections - and yet, we haven’t been able to hold a single person accountable for Grenfell.