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An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship

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Congressional report: high risk Temu's supply chains have forced labor (2023)

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Congressional report published Thursday offered a blistering critique of popular Chinese...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Congressional report published Thursday offered a blistering critique of popular Chinese retailers Shein and Temu, with lawmakers accusing the latter of failing to maintain “even the façade of a meaningful compliance program” that seeks to prevent goods made by forced labor from being sold on its p...

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Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment

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Fourth Amendment Cases like this are exactly why the Fourth Amendment was adopted in the first...
Fourth Amendment Cases like this are exactly why the Fourth Amendment was adopted in the first place, wrote federal Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. The FBI violated the Fourth Amendment when its agents rifled through the contents of more than 700 safe-deposit boxes in the aftermath of a March 2021 raid, a panel of federal ...

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A century after Lenin's death, he seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia

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Take a look at Vladimir Lenin’s legacy, 100 years after the first Soviet Union leader’s death...
Take a look at Vladimir Lenin’s legacy, 100 years after the first Soviet Union leader’s death shocked Russia. Photos Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with the...

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OpenAI suspends developer over bot that impersonated presidential candidate

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OpenAI has suspended the developer behind Dean.Bot, a ChatGPT-powered bot designed to impersonate Democratic presidential candidate...
OpenAI has suspended the developer behind Dean.Bot, a ChatGPT-powered bot designed to impersonate Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips to help bolster his campaign, according to The Washington Post. The chatbot was created by AI startup Delphi for the super PAC We Deserve Better, which supports Phillips.D...

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