Joe Biden Formally Backs Consumers' Right to Repair Their Electronics
"Too many areas, if you own a product, from a smartphone to a tractor, you don’t have the freedom to choose how or where to repair that item you purchased."
Police fatally shot 1,055 people in 2021, the highest total since The Post began tracking - The Washington Post
The new count is up from 1,021 shootings the previous year, despite sustained public attention to and controversy over police use of force. While reaching a new high, experts said the 2021 total was within expected bounds.
Vax Mandates Remain After Four Republican Senators Skip Senate Vote
The vote ultimately passed 47-46 after Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Burr (R-NC) failing to show up opted not to show up for the vote. The absent Republican senators gave Democrats, who were missing three votes, the narrow majority they needed
California High School Caves After Students Stage Walkout Over Mask Mandate
'Moving forward students will not be physically removed from the classroom or receive a discipline consequence to prevent further exclusionary learning loss.'
Forbes Contributor Fired Over Investigative Stories On Fauci
"Dr. Anthony Fauci controls the organs of state authority. If you are an independent voice, you are in jeopardy. Unfortunately, we are now an example."
Don’t Let SHOP SAFE Prevent You From Buying and Selling Online | EFF Action Center
The House of Representatives has inserted SHOP SAFE—a piece of legislation that would make it extremely difficult for any individual to sell things online and equally difficult for any online platform to compete with Amazon—into a 3,000-page trade bill. It cannot remain there.
Texas Sues Facebook For Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars For Abusing Facial Recognition Tools
Users of Meta Platform's popular social media ecosystems like Facebook and Instagram will likely remember how the company abandoned its facial recognition tools on the apps back in November. The feature scraped visual data from the platform to identify people in newly posted photos, and abandoning it dramatically reshaped Meta's attempt to retool its platforms, including plans to launch a child-only iteration of Instagram that would have functioned as a separate platform.