Labour rights, privacy rights, antitrust enforcement, cooyrights, DRM, maybe more.
I'd just argue that it's hard to say that this law is more or less important than that law, because it will depend on who you are. If you're a tech worker you'd likely be focused on labour rights, if you're an author it might be copyrights, for example. So we should protect all whose rights are violated.
The Global Times, a Communist Party-backed media outlet, cited Chinese experts who called Harris’s performance in the White House “mediocre” and claimed she lacked the “experience and achievements to serve as president.”
Another state-run outlet highlighted Donald Trump’s campaign trail claim Harris would be “easier to beat” than the sitting president.
Why can't we have all of it?
Kenya spends USD 1 billion in a year to repay Chinese loans, burdening taxpayers
[...] cash sent to Beijing [by Kenya] comprised nearly 100.47 billion KES (703 million USD) in principal sums that fell due, and 52.22 billion KES (365.54 million USD) in interest ]...]
The total amount paid represents a 42.14 per cent jump in the previous year, ending June 2023 [...]
[According to research lab] AidData, "The terms of Beijing's loan deals with developing countries are usually secretive and require borrowing from nations such as Kenya to prioritise repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors." [...]
Tankies do like to pretend that they don't support fascism, but they really just ignore it and enjoy their brunches. Forced labour and other human rights violations in autocracies don't effect them personally, therefore it doesn't exist at all.
Sounds like whataboutism tankies do to users here on Lemmy.
A Brief History of Trump and Violence
(archived)
This is the candidate who presided over Nuremberg-styled rallies in 2016, during which he encouraged his supporters to chant that Hillary Clinton should be locked up—and then didn’t push back when some advisers and supporters took the next step and urged that she be executed.
This is a man who said there were “very fine people” among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville in 2017.
This is the political leader who mused about finding ways to shoot would-be immigrants in the legs, or feed them to alligators, as they tried to cross the southern border into the United States.
This is a person who tweeted, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” in response to protests against the killing of George Floyd.
This is a demagogue who, for political advantage, at the height of the pandemic, whipped up angry mobs against public health officers and then refused to condemn those mobs, when they picketed officials’ homes and workplaces, often heavily armed, frequently with exhortations to hang the medics for their advice on social distancing, on closing schools and businesses, or on mask and vaccine mandates [...]
This is a man who refused to call off the dogs when, on January 6, 2021, participants in an insurrectionary riot that he had inspired tried to hunt down the speaker of the House, the vice president of the United States, and miscellaneous other figures.
This is a felonious candidate who, along with his sons, openly mocked the Pelosi family when Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was seriously injured by a hammer-wielding would-be assassin who tried to beat his brains in, and took to social media to spread baseless rumors that Paul Pelosi had been attacked by his gay lover [...]
This is a candidate who has called for the execution of former chief of staff Mark Milley [...]
Political violence ought to have absolutely no place in how democracies allocate power and influence. That goes not just for the violence unleashed by would-be assassins but also for the more casual, background, daily violence that Trump has, since he first announced his candidacy in 2015, normalized among his supporters.
Trump Rally Gunman Was ‘Definitely Conservative,’ classmates recall
(Archived)
Why Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Donald Trump is a mystery to investigators and his ex-classmates [...]
[Former classmate] Max R. Smith recalled taking an American history course with Crooks as a sophomore. He did recall Crooks making political statements — but they shed no light on his actions Saturday.
“He definitely was conservative,” he said. “It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.”
Smith recalled a mock debate in which their history professor posed government policy questions and asked students to stand on one side of the classroom or the other to signal their support or opposition for a given proposal.
“The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.”
There is a comprehensive report from 2022 by Safeguard Defenders (mentioned in the article):
Chinese offical corroborates 110 Overseas findings (here is the pdf)
And a folliw-up on Chinese Overseas Police Service Centers in 53 countries around the world (here is the report as pdf)
Just a reminder:
Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza
(March 2024)
“Specifically, Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent: causing seriously serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent birth within the group,” she [Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories] said.
Furthermore, “the genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians,” she continued.
For over 76 years, this process has oppressed the Palestinians as a people in every way imaginable, crushing their inalienable right to self-determination demographically, economically, territorially, culturally and politically.”
[...]
"I implore Member States to abide by their obligations which start with imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel, and so ensure that the future does not continue to repeat itself,” she concluded [...]
What's irritating are the reactions by both the company and the authorities. Imagine you're in China and your child or some family member gets hit by car, and then the car company says it was only a 'mild' collision because they had been jaywalking, and the officials add that you should not spread 'rumors'.
They seem to go ahead with more licenses for such cars -if I understand the article correct- as if people's lives don't matter. That represents the worst of neoliberalism within an authoritarian system.
Yeah, but it could get better, according to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "Trump is going to have to get used to hearing Harris’ prosecutor record"
Here is a video (17 min): https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=5JbXbqe5t_w