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After the certifying ceremony of the result of the Presidential Election, a bunch of domestic terrorists set fire to cars and buses and tried to invade the headquarters of the federal police in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
Supporters of Mr. Jair Bolsonaro, unhappy with the defeat, decided to wreak havoc in the streets of the Brazilian capital.
The irony of this situation is that these protesters/vandals have been calling for a so-called military intervention for weeks, a cynical euphemism for coup d’état, and today they received a free sample. The capital’s gerndarmerie was called in and dispersed the vandals with pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets.
includes a tweet by Viktor Orban Ugh.
Maryam Alemzadeh, Associate Professor in History and Politics of Iran at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), a 17-18 CISSR Dissertation Fellow, and alum in the Department of Sociology, wrote in Contexts about the ongoing protests in Iran which started after the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini. In the essay titled “Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Progressive Academe,” Prof. Alemzadeh shares how mourners chanted the Kurdish slogan “jin, jiyan, azadi,” which translates to “woman, life, freedom,” at the funeral of Jina Amini in a show of support for these protests. However, in her position as an Iranian academic woman within the diaspora studying contemporary Iran, Prof. Alemzadeh ponders the particular ethical questions associated with the movement. For example, by supporting the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement does that make one Islamaphobic, because it involves people taking off their headscarves and burning them? Or when outsiders support a local women’s liberation movement, is the world only promoting their imperialistic and interventionist gaze by showcasing the protests? While Alemzadeh answers with a definitive “no” to these specific moral questions, her analysis expands on the importance of humanization to contextualize any protest movement.
After a night of chaos when cars and buses were set ablaze, a police station was destroyed and Federal Police HQ was attacked, nobody was arrested. The supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro are now saying that It was a false flag operation carried out by the Antifa…
Gosh, I wonder where they learned that excuse from?
It strikes me that they should be concerned with the overall issue about social media and data, not just with this particular iteration of it…
From a non-American perspective this TikTok outrage is extremely perplexing.
Your choice.to use it of course.
Wray noted Chinese companies are required to essentially “do whatever the Chinese government wants them to in terms of sharing information or serving as a tool of the Chinese government. And so that’s plenty of reason by itself to be extremely concerned.”
Tik Tok is property of the State in every sense.
The fact that a Chinese company owns it is the issue. They’re using a real problem that deserves some public scrutiny (data in social media) and turned it into an anti-Chinese statement… I think the EU has been much more willing to push forward on regulating social media companies (as you know), but this is the only time the US government has shown any real willingness to put anything on the table. I suspect that certain powers that be find the data collection of big tech too useful to reign in (or is that rein in?).
Well, I don’t, but that’s mostly because I am getting old.
But the thing is, if you are not American, then social networks being under the control of foreign powers, laughing in the face of your laws and sending your data to the other end of the world to do things with it that may very well be highly illegal locally is just how things work.
From an American perspective, as well. For most of us, anyway.
