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Internet Access and the New Divide
While we still talk about “the” Internet, we increasingly have two separate access marketplaces: high-speed wired and second-class wireless. High-speed access is a superhighway for those who can afford it, while racial minorities and poorer and rural Americans must make do with a bike path.
Internet  digital  justice  access  poverty  fave 
december 2011 by patrix
Court Acquits Molesters Because Their Victim Was Asleep [Justice]
A Swedish court just acquitted two men who pulled down an 18-year-old woman's shirt while she was passed out from too much drink and, without her knowledge, photographed her bare breasts. Apparently this photo, which shows the men celebrating their conquest, was pretty much irrelevant, because photographing naked people without their knowledge or consent is still totally legal in Sweden, The Local reports. More »
justice  Crime  Fb  Molestation  Sex_crimes  Sweden  Tweetd  Tweetg  from google
october 2011 by patrix
The Someone You're Not
Our packed prisons are starting to disgorge hundreds of mostly African-America men who, over the last few decades, we wrongly convicted of violent crimes. This is what it's like to spend nearly thirty years in prison for something you didn't do. This is what it's like to spend nearly thirty years as someone you aren't. And for Ray Towler, this is what it's like to be free.
crime  justice  UnitedStates  fave 
march 2011 by patrix
John Roberts: the difference four years makes
By the prevailing wisdom of the day, I'm behaving rationally for a non-expert prudent investor. By Roberts' standard, I am "too stupid to keep track" of what every one of these companies is doing and shifting my positions day by day in response.
law  supremecourt  justice  freespeech  from delicious
january 2010 by patrix
Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution
The lawyers designing interrogation techniques cited Bauer more frequently than the Constitution.
torture  law  politics  crime  justice  constitution  24  nefa 
july 2008 by patrix

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