[B] ホルムズ通航「日本はイランと個別交渉を」 元首相・研究者らが政府に要請

17 hours 38 minutes ago
米国・イスラエルとイランの戦闘を背景に、ホルムズ海峡周辺の船舶通航が不安定化する中、元職・前職国会議員や研究者、エネルギー事業関係者らが6月8日、衆議院第一議員会館で「ホルムズ独自友好交渉へ」と題する記者会見を開いた。会見には、小林正弥・千葉大学教授(呼びかけ人代表)、鳩山友紀夫元内閣総理大臣、境野春彦・コネクトエネルギー合同会社CEO、宮田律・現代イスラム研究センター理事長、竹信三恵子・和光大学名誉教授らが出席した。主催した「生活と平和」提言事務局は、日本政府に対し、ホルムズ海峡における日本関係船舶の安全通過を実現するため、イラン政府と直接かつ友好的に個別交渉を行うよう求めた。(岩中健介)
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Enshittification Merch That Actually Fights Enshittification 

18 hours 22 minutes ago

Enshittification isn't just a sweary word to describe the accelerating decay of the online platforms, apps, and services that we rely on.  

It's a framework for understanding the structural incentives that make tech companies enemies of their own users over time—the surveillance business model, the erosion of privacy, the monopoly power that eliminates alternatives, the regulatory capture that prevents accountability.  

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These are some of EFF's core fights and have been for over 35 years. EFF sues. EFF advocates. EFF codes. And EFF wins. EFF is the most profound and powerful disenshittifying force on the planet Earth, and I’ve been proud to fight alongside them for nearly 25 of those years.  

One of the lessons you learn in battles with very long timelines against very powerful actors is that these battles are deeply serious, and because of that they must also be fun. “Enshittification” took off as a shorthand in part because of the minor license to vulgarity it confers. It's slightly crass for a reason: getting people to engage with the abstract issues of tech policy can be hard at the best of times. No one knows this better than my colleagues at EFF, who consistently surprise me with their ability to make complex, technical concepts concrete, memorable, and sometimes even joyful

Words matter, but so do visuals. For the cover of the U.S. edition of my book, Enshittification, designer Devin Washburn of No Ideas studio created an iconic variation of the "pile of poo" emoji, with angry eyebrows and a grawlix-scrawled censor bar over its mouth. It instantly became the symbol of enshittification I’d been looking for. 

I liked it so much I ordered a couple hundred enamel pins and a couple thousand vinyl stickers and handed them out to people I met on my 33-city book tour. Even when giving them away, I was inundated with requests to buy more of them.  

I've since bought out Devin's rights to the image and released it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license—free for anyone to use, remix, or build on, including commercially, with attribution. The high-resolution files are on Wikimedia CommonsFlickr, and the Internet Archive (including a PSD with an ink-density adjustment layer). It belongs to the commons now. 

But I made sure EFF had first crack at the design for their “official merch,” and they've done right by it. There are two items available now in the EFF shop, and all proceeds go directly to EFF's work defending digital rights. I’ve spent years admiring EFF’s merch and consistent, creative visual identity, so it fills me with pride to see this more-than-a-mere-poop-emoji in their shop.  

A recognizable visual shorthand is a genuine organizing tool. When someone sees the enshittification emoji, they know what the conversation is about. When you wear the pin or slap the sticker on your laptop, you're signaling that you understand what's happening to the internet, and that you know we can do better.  

You can get a $5 sticker:

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 Because the design is CC-licensed, you don't have to buy one. You can make your own merch, your own swag, your own illustrations. I made a lawn flag for my front garden.

 

But if you do want to buy a sticker or pin, you can do so while supporting the most profound and powerful disenshittifying force on the planet Earth—the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Cory Doctorow

🔊 Mass Surveillance for… Loud Music? | EFFector 38.11

18 hours 27 minutes ago

Across the country, surveillance companies have spun a vast web of tens of thousands of license plate cameras. The people selling this tech want you to believe that it's for your safety, but how are authorities really using automated license plate readers (ALPR)? In this week's EFFector newsletter, we're looking at how these powerful surveillance networks have become universal people-trackers used for noise complaints and other low-level investigations.

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For over 35 years, EFFector has been your guide to understanding the intersection of technology, civil liberties, and the law. This week's issue covers a victory for facial privacy, EFF's testimony to Congress about AI and surveillance, and troubling new examples of ALPR mission creep.

Prefer to listen in? EFFector is now available on all major podcast platforms. This week, we're chatting with EFF Associate Director of State Affairs Rindala Alajaji about what she uncovered about police use of ALPR. And don't miss the EFFector news quiz. You can find the episode and subscribe on your podcast platform of choice:

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Hudson Hongo

【月刊マスコミ評・放送】民放ドキュメンタリーの力作が2本=諸川 麻衣

19 hours 56 minutes ago
 大型連休の時期、民放でドキュメンタリーの力作が2本放送された。 まず、4月26日放送の日本テレビ『NNNドキュメント’26 なぜ山本美香は銃撃されたのか~伝え続けた戦場の声なき声~』。 ジャーナリストの山本美香は2012年、内戦下のシリアで取材中に銃撃され、亡くなったが、誰が何のために彼女を撃ったのかは不明のままだった。当時、一緒に取材していたジャーナリストで、山本の公私にわたるパートナーだった佐藤和孝は、シリアの独裁政権が崩壊し、再び取材できるようになったことを受けて13..
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クルド人の人権擁護に取り組む在日朝鮮人弁護士が自らへのヘイトで提訴 「差別の連鎖許すな」

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 差別にさらされているクルド人の人権擁護に取り組んだところ、インターネット上のヘイトスピーチで攻撃されたとして、在日朝鮮人の金英功弁護士が約720万円の損害賠償を投稿者に求める訴訟をさいたま地裁で起こした。5月20日に第 […]
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