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In Portland, Oregon, unidentified armed assailants dressed in military fatigues have been snatching people off the streets, piling them into unmarked vans, and taking them away.

Just as the founders intended.

No, seriously, the founders must have intended for that to happen. Otherwise the people who are always proclaiming their worship of rights, and freedom, and liberty people who are quite certain they know a lot more than you about what the founders intended would be condemning this assault on, well, rights, and freedom, and liberty.

And theyre not.

Any discomfort, any momentary tinge of cognitive dissonance, appears to be assuaged by whos in charge. The thugs dispatched to seize American citizens off the streets of a U.S. city, you see, are federal officers carrying out orders of the Trump administration.

The Oregon attorney general has filed a suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Federal Protective Service. Oh, and the AG in Nevadas neighbor to the northwest has also sued John Does 1-10, who are so named, the suit explains, because the government has made it impossible for them to be individually identified by carrying out law enforcement actions without wearing any identifying information, even so much as the agency that employs them.

Aint that America?

The John Does and their cohorts have been conducting the aforementioned abductions of your fellow Americans without either arresting them or stating the basis for an arrest, since at least Tuesday, July 14, according to allegations in the suit.

Ordinarily, a person exercising his right to walk through the streets of Portland who is confronted by anonymous men in military-type fatigues and ordered into an unmarked van can reasonably assume that he is being kidnapped and is the victim of a crime, the suit notes. Which is true.

Defendants are injuring the occupants of Portland, the suit continues, by taking away citizens ability to determine whether they are being kidnapped by militia or other malfeasants dressed in paramilitary gear (such that they may engage in self-defense to the fullest extent permitted by law) or are being arrested (such that resisting might amount to a crime).

The abductions, in addition to creeping everyone out, are violations of the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments, says the suit, which seeks an injunction ordering the Trump administration to, well, stop being a bunch of lawless thugs.

Remember that one day when people who think fighting the covid is unconstitutional or something went to the Nevada governors office, with guns, to call him a dictator and shake their fists at the sky and yell about freedom?

Or remember that time a huge Blue Lives Matter march was supposed to be held in Las Vegas?

Imagine if, at such an event, federal officers started just cold grabbing protesters and hauling them away with no explanation whatsoever.

Imagine the outcry from the likes of, oh, Fox News, or Adam Laxalt, or Brobdingnagian Dan Rodimer, or Michele Fiore, or that one whosit carnival barker who used to have a column in the RJ. They would have had a cow (donated by Cliven Bundy no doubt).

So youd think those self-professed lovers of freedom and rights and liberty and the rule of law, those self-identified Real Americans, and their ilk would be pitching a fit over tyrannical and dictatorial federal actions designed to, as Trump likes to say, dominate the citizenry.

After all, as the Oregon AGs suit asserts, Citizens peacefully gathering on the streets of Portland to protest racial inequality have the right

Oh. Wait. It looks weve found the extenuating circumstances.

Its not as if people in Portland were making noise on behalf of some truly cherished American value, like the freedom to spread covid to others, or the right of a welfare cowboy to make taxpayers foot the bill to feed his cows.

Its not as if people in Portland were standing up to support the perpetuation of the traditional status quo, wherein police kill Black people and no one is held accountable.

No, the people in Portland have been protesting racial inequality.

Your freedom-loving, mask-despising patriots may, as a rule, view Big Guvment para-trooping a light military force into a state without giving notice to, let alone being requested by, that states duly elected officials or law enforcement as a violation of every star-spangled red white & blue value they hold so dear.

Unless the stormtroopers are violating the rights and liberty of people who are challenging North Americas 400-year legacy of cruelty, violence, theft, rape, and systemic oppression of people who arent white. When people are protesting that, kidnapping Americans is evidently OK. Even if the people being secreted away are white (seriously have you been to Portland?).

No one expects intellectual consistency, or intellectual much of anything, from Laxalt, Rodimer, Fiore & Friends.

And everyone, even and especially his supporters, know that law and order just means continued oppression and domination of everyone who isnt a Trump supporter when Trump says it.

Ah, but maybe these harsh and authoritarian tactics undertaken by the weak wannabe strongman will at least quell unrest or vandalism in Portland, and Dear Leader Trump will save the day after all.

Eh, not so much.

Their presence, the Oregonian reported Monday of Trumps invasion of Portland, has stoked the nightly strife in downtown, not tamped down tensions as professed by Trump or Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad F. Wolf, local and state leaders say.

Portlands mayor has said, well, a lot of things, as you can imagine. But this is the most important:

This could happen in your city.

As if on cue, Trump Monday blustered that hes going to send his American Gestapo to Chicago and several other cities all run by liberal Democrats.

No one would ever accuse Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman of being one of those. But she doesnt really run the metro area, the county commission does, and however to the left you may think they are, rest assured its more than enough to qualify as liberal Democrats in Trumps noggin. Laughable though it may seem, the same goes for Nevadas governor and Democrats who have majorities in the Legislature.

Trump hasnt targeted Las Vegas for unconstitutional and malicious military thuggery. Yet. But if and when he does, its a safe bet Nevada Trump supporters, states rights devotees all, will demonstrate their commitment to the nations founding principles of liberty and freedom by cheering him on.

Editor | Hugh Jackson has been writing about Nevada policy and politics for more than 20 years. He was editor of the Las Vegas Business Press, senior editor at the Las Vegas CityLife weekly newspaper, daily political commentator on the Las Vegas NBC affiliate, and wrote the then-groundbreaking Las Vegas Gleaner, which among other things was the only independent political blog from Nevada that was credentialed at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He spent a few years as a senior energy and environmental policy analyst for Public Citizen, and has occasionally worked as a consultant on mining, taxation, education and other issues for Nevada labor and public interest organizations. His freelance work has been published in outlets ranging from the Guardian to Desert Companion to In These Times to the Oil & Gas Journal. For several years he also taught U.S. History courses at UNLV. Prior to moving to Las Vegas, he was a reporter and then assistant managing editor at the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyomings largest newspaper.

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The Martian Revolution pitting the human inhabitants of Mars against the Earthlings who stayed at home is coming. The only question is which side of it we should be on now, a century or two before it begins.

On Thursday local time, China launched one of three international missions set to head toward Mars this summer, each one marking a dramatic step forward in the scientific exploration of the Red Planet and the day that human settlement there becomes a reality. The purpose of the missions, the other two of which are being undertaken by the United Arab Emirates and the United States, range from unpacking the history of Mars' atmosphere to looking for signs of ancient life.

In building new outposts of human society, how do we keep from repeating all the injustices and broken power dynamics that have marked history on Earth?

While billionaire rocketeers like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others aren't directly involved in these missions, they are very interested in Mars. And nation-sponsored endeavors like those launching this week will plant the seeds that they hope will eventually grow into a long-term, large-scale human presence on Mars and throughout the solar system. Commercial space companies, like Musk's SpaceX, have had remarkable success building powerful, reusable rockets that shave the cost of reaching orbit and would help drive that Martian settlement.

But the progress also brings new and equally remarkable questions about the ethics of populating Mars, particularly when we are so acutely aware of the failures and devastation caused by humanity's earlier acts of colonization. Answers to these new questions may not only determine our future in space, but they may also shape the human future for centuries.

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There are important questions about the legitimacy and wisdom of colonizing Mars in the first place. But even if these concerns are overcome or simply ignored in the enthusiasm for a human future in space, we must think seriously about how to do it in the best way. The global outrage at George Floyd's death and the societal shortcomings it spotlights tell us we must ask ourselves now and not later: In building new outposts of human society, how do we keep from repeating all the injustices and broken power dynamics that have marked history on Earth?

That's where the Martian Revolution comes in.

Martian liberation movements are a staple of science fiction. First, people from Earth build tiny settlements on Mars. Then, after a century or so, the settlements grow into vibrant planetwide civilizations. Eventually, these new "Martians" fight to throw off the yoke of Earth's tyranny. In these stories, space represents an opportunity to create social arrangements that look profoundly different from what we've been locked into on Earth. In space, maybe, we could be more free.

The question that must come next is: Whose idea of freedom are we talking about? The broad discussion of systematic racism happening now is a recognition of just how deep and persistent inequality has been in most modern societies. Add to this the oppression of different sexual and gender identities and it's clear that there are forms of expression and well-being that lots of humans don't fully enjoy here on Earth.

So, if we want something different, how can we get there?

One vehicle is the growth of commercial space enterprises, because their premise is so new and their activities are so vibrant. SpaceX, Blue Origin and others deserve a lot of credit for what they have and can achieve technologically. But it's unlikely that the owners, a group of hyper-rich white guys small enough to fit into an elevator, can build the best new society on their own even if they really did have the very best of intentions.

But the economic engines they're creating can help bring many different kinds of people into the process, including those who suffer now under what we've built on Earth. That's because thriving long-term human settlements on Mars can exist only once we've built a healthy space economy, and that's going to happen only through collaborations between governments and commercial enterprises (i.e., public-private partnerships). Right now, for example, the U.S. government is a principal client for SpaceX. So, in the future, the moon bases, asteroid-mining facilities and deep-space exploration platforms that will make up a space economy will likely be built by consortiums of nations working with private companies.

We everyday citizens who represent the public side of the partnerships can require those companies to break with the past to be more inclusive and innovative; we have leverage. If a company wants to be part of a big moon base contract, then the governments allowing them to be involved have to set up rules and standards that benefit all humans, regardless of their place on the socioeconomic ladder. Creating economic structures for workers that can't devolve into versions of indentured servitude (something Musk seemed to unwittingly imply was possible) is one example.

But we could go even further. My colleague Jacob Haqq-Misra of the Blue Marble Space Institute has come up with one of the coolest ideas ever when it comes to this question. He argues that we can liberate Mars now by declaring any settlement there to be definitively Martian. Humans who leave Earth to permanently settle on Mars would have to relinquish their planetary citizenship as Earthlings. These new Martians wouldn't be able to represent the interests of any group on Earth and couldn't acquire wealth on Earth.

Just as important, in keeping with space treaties formed under the auspices of the United Nations, the Martian Constitution outlining the society the planet's new citizens would be joining would spell out the use of land on the Red Planet. In particular, land rights would be determined only by Martians; Earthlings wouldn't be able to make any demands for resources like water (for making rocket fuel). (Note that this means you could still make money on Mars, but you would have to do it as a citizen of the new world, with its new, more just and equal social arrangements.

If we do decide to populate Mars (and you can probably tell I really want us to), then we can ensure a future in space that would be something much better than what we have now something those back on Earth could eventually learn from. In that way, the Martian Revolution can begin today. It can be fought and won without grievance and without a shot, fully completed by that fateful day when human beings first set foot on the red soil of their new home.

Adam Frank, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, is the author of "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth."

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To the Editor: Many people are confused about face masks because back in April the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued statements suggesting they were not needed. Both institutions have changed and now strongly recommend face masks.

There are several reasons for the change, but mostly it is because the coronavirus is constantly evolving and we are learning more about it. We now know the virus is commonly spread simply by people speaking. The virus organisms are expelled from a persons lungs when they speak and can float in the air for as much as eight hours. A face mask prevents some from being expelled and slows those that are so they do not travel as far from the speaker.

That is why social distancing is so important. You have a much greater chance of being infected by standing close to someone that is infected. If the virus cannot infect another individual, it goes through its infectious cycle and appears to die. The vast majority of scientists say if everyone would wear a face mask and use social distancing for two weeks, we could be on the way to beating COVID-19, and cautiously re-opening our businesses and our schools.

In addition to killing some of its victims, we now know COVID-19 affects other organs that can have long, life altering results. We know COVID-19 infects young children and they can pass it on to others. We know that going to parties or attending other social, religious, or governmental gatherings helps to spread COVID-19 and perpetuates the pandemic.

Its simple; you can help re-open our schools and our economy, and you might save your own or someone elses life by wearing a face mask, washing your hands and social distancing. If you do not do these things you are part of the problem.

Mary Luchterhand Unity

To the Editor: President Trumps recent actions to deploy federal agents in American cities, against American citizens, violate Article 1, Section 8 and Article 3, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.

When those agents appeared in uniforms with no agency or personal identifi cation and apprehended a protester, shoving him into an unmarked vehicle without saying where they were taking him or why, they were in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment states, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. . .

We know Trump admires the most tyrannical dictators in the world and has expressed a desire to have those same dictatorial powers. It should be frightening to anyone concerned with civil liberties, including the right to assemble, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to petition the government as is granted in the First Amendment.

Trump has declared himself to be your law and order president and thinks of himself as a war time president. He has called for the military to be deployed to dominate protesters. His acting secretary for Homeland Security said he is protecting federal property and indicated these agents will be deployed to other American cities.

Despite Congress being in session and no requests from the states, Trump feels free to violate several articles of the most sacred document this country has. Can you imagine what he will do if he is reelected? Conspiracy planners are suggesting the placement of federal troops in cities around the nation as part of Plan B in case he is not re-elected and attempts to stay in office. He is violating fundamental American laws and should be stopped. Where are our representatives in Congress? Their silence is deafening.

Richard A. Slone Neillsville

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George Floyds murder became known across world solely based on videos taken by bystanders. And in the protests occurring since, footage has captured police violence toward demonstratorsfrom Buffalo police pushing a 75-year-old man, to Brooklyn police pulling down a protesters mask before assaulting him with pepper spray.

During Portlands current occupation by federal agents, video footage has been crucial in documenting instances where protesters have been attacked and had their rights violated. Shocking videos show federal officers dressed in military gear hauling protesters into unmarked vans.

Another viral video shows 53-year-old Navy Veteran Chris David peacefully approaching officers before being beaten with batons and attacked with pepper spray.

That same police violence has also been directed at reportersthe on-air arrest of CNN crew and reporter Omar Jimenez in May is just one of over 500 reported cases of police aggression towards journalists covering protests.

It seems even politicians are not safe from police overreach, as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) was subjected to tear gas attacks when he joined protesters outside the federal courthouse on Wednesday.

In many cases, videos like these become essential in ensuring officers are held accountable for misconduct and violencegiving strength to nationwide movements for racial justice and police reform. A video has the power to raise awareness and change opinions. In fact: Video footage alone has repeatedly led to officer punishment, firing or prosecution.

As protesters continue to demand police reform and accountability, it is increasingly important to understand the legal right citizens and the press have to record and publish videos of police activities.

Cue: The NYU First Amendment Watch last month released A Citizens Guide to Recording Policewhich breaks down the legal precedent behind our right to record law enforcement officers.

Here atMs., our team is continuing to report throughthis global health crisisdoing what we can to keep you informed andup-to-date on some of the most underreported issues of thispandemic.Weask that you consider supporting our work to bring you substantive, uniquereportingwe cant do it without you. Support our independent reporting and truth-telling for as little as $5 per month.

Here are some of the most important and relevant aspects of A Citizens Guide to Recording the Police:

+ The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on whether the First Amendment protects the right to record police officers. However, 61 percent of U.S. citizens live in states where federal courts have recognized this right. The other 39 percent of citizens live in states that have not yet ruled on the issue, and its highly unlikely they will.

+ The Supreme Court has recognized the First Amendment protects the ability to seek out and obtain news and information. Furthermore, the government cannot limit the publics stock of informationwhich could include recordings of police officers carrying out their official duties in public.

+ Additionally, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the First Amendments freedom of speech and freedom of the press includes the right to make audio and audiovisual recordingsestablishing the right to record the police.

+ First Amendment protections given to reporters and members of the press also extend to bystandersespecially important in todays world, where social media enables anyone with a phone to become a reporter.

+ In most cases, police cannot seize or view recordings taken by bystanders. In Riley v. California, the Supreme Court found the Fourth Amendment prohibits police from taking someones recording device or searching its contents. The only legal way for police to seize a phone is with an arrest and warrant.

+ It is only legal to record officers in public while on duty. Additionally, police can limit recording in some cases if it is necessary to maintain safety and control. The police have discretion in deciding when it is necessary to disperse crowds or establish police barriers to prevent public interference.

However, law enforcement cannot single out an individual solely because they are recording. Moreover, the First Circuit Court ruled that officers cannot prohibit peaceful recording of an arrest in a public space that does not interfere with the police officers performance of their duties. Therefore, in most instances, bystanders have an undeniable right to record police activities.

It is important bystanders continue to record the actions of officers who disregard the rights and safety of demonstratorsand other cities should keep an eye (and a phone) out, since Trump has announced his plan to send a surge of federal law enforcement officers to other large cities like Chicago and Albuquerque. We can expect similar patterns of violence and human rights abuses.

Of course, it is also important to recognize that in some cases, even when police activities are caught on camera, it does not lead to justice and systematic changes. Almost six years ago, Eric Garner told officers he couldnt breathe while being held in a chokeholdbut OfficerDaniel Pantaleo, responsible for his death, was not charged.

Definite proof of racial injustice has time and time again failed to enact meaningful and longterm change over the course of U.S. history.

But while videos do not guarantee that justice will be reached, they remain an important way for Americans to exercise their constitutional rights. Theyre sometimes the only tool we have.

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The FBI Is Abusing The All Writs Act To Gain Access To Millions Of Travel Records – Techdirt

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from the not-how-the-Third-Party-Doctrine-works dept

When the Fourth Amendment limits your surveillance plans, just go private. That seems to be the standard operating procedure for law enforcement agencies.

When cops aren't willing to canvas neighborhoods to find crime suspects, they just head to Google and ask for info on everyone who happened to be in the area. When they want more data on suspects they're tracking, they don't run subpoenas by judges. They just tap into collections of data harvested from breaches and malicious hacking, all compiled and collated by private companies for easy searchability. And when the CBP decides its own ALPR database just doesn't have enough plate photos in it, it taps into Vigilant's stash of 9 billion plates even as it admits it may not have the legal authority to do so.

The FBI does the same thing. Thomas Brewster reports for Forbes that the FBI has taken an expansive view of the Third Party Doctrine to grab records from a private company that complies records related to several different businesses. The company is Sabre, a publicly-traded entity that compiles travel bookings. First formed in 1964, the company, which began as a division of American Airlines, now handles bookings for nearly every major airline, hoovering up data on a third of world's air travelers.

Sabre gained a lot of traction as an investigative tool following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. But it continues to be used as a convenient compilation of travel records, sparing the FBI (and others) from approaching several different companies with subpoenas.

Brewster has dug up some recent documents detailing Sabre's relationship with the FBI.

[A]s detailed in one international cybercrime investigation, Sabre can be compelled to proactively watch and report on a persons whereabouts as soon as they start travelling. In an order from December 2019, feds asked Sabre to provide the FBI with real-time updates on the travel activities of a hacking suspect, an Indian fugitive called Deepanshu Kher. Sabre was told to provide complete and contemporaneous real time account activity information of the traveler [Kher] on a weekly basis for six months. Sabre would provide any travel orders, transactions or reservations for the suspect.

The order goes on to note law enforcement has already tapped Sabre's vast stores of travel data to assist in three other investigations dating back to 2016. This appears to be an abuse of a very old legal doctrine -- one that dates back much, much further than even the 2001 attacks. The All Writs Act (b. 1789) is in play here, and it appears to be allowing the FBI to skirt subpoena requirements to go to a compiler of third party records, rather than the original source of those records.

[Attorney Mark Zwillinger {who represented Apple in the San Bernardino case}] says that if it wants to leverage the All Writs Act, the government has to show a third party is necessary and close enough to the matter at hand. With Sabre, given there were other ways of getting the information on Khers travel, such as records of him entering the U.S. via Customs and Border Protection databases, that necessity was questionable.

There are also questions on the reasonableness of the burden on Sabre, another requirement for All Writs Act orders, he adds. In one particular order, it might not be that burdensome, but once you start to get some volume here, then it really turns Sabre into a sort of government agent every time they want to find a fugitive.

This isn't how the Act is supposed to work. The FBI is aware of the limits of the Act and its duty to comply with Constitutional rights and applicable law. Unfortunately, the first check on abuses like this is the federal court system, and it appears to be fine with the FBI imposing a burden on a third party one step removed from the original travel records. The second check is the recipient of bogus orders like these. But Sabre doesn't appear to be willing to call the government on its bullshit, allowing the FBI to continue defining the "third party" part of Third Party Doctrine as being anyone holding records created by someone else.

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Democracy, accountability and empowerment: The case for journalism as a gen-ed course – Poynter

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Recent racist incidents and police violence have been caught on video, uploaded to social media and viewed millions of times, sparking protests and outrage and accelerating diversity agendas at colleges and universities.

In most of those incidents, the photographer was not a reporter but a bystander or victim of abuse themselves.

Reporters have been arrested in record numbers covering protests associated with the May 25 killing of George Floyd. Some 10,000 mostly peaceful protesters have been arrested and assaulted, too, with many such incidents caught on tape. In an op-ed in the Iowa Capital Dispatch, I ask, What makes a journalist, the person or the device?

Increasingly, I argue, it is the device.

In the hands of a journalist, however, or a civilian who knows reporting basics, you double its power.

Power is at the core of controversies about police brutality. Smartphone technology has empowered civilians whose photographs and videos undermine the authority of law enforcement, at times exposing lies, racist agendas and prosecutorial negligence.

Police departments rely on video and security cameras for traffic control, license plate recognition and crime detection. But when the lens is turned on them, they often are less enthusiastic.

Units equipped with body cameras may not release videos to the public or wait months to do so, as was the case in the killing of Elijah McClain. He had done nothing illegal but was wearing a mask while on an errand to pick up iced tea for his brother.

The issue here is accountability and transparency, key tenets of journalism. Reporters are watchdogs over government and file freedom of information requests to foster openness. They embrace the credo of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.

These are lessons for everyone.

In 2005, Wired ran an article with that maxim:

When man bites dog, whos the first to report it? Dont assume its your local paper or CNN. These days, our man on the scene is often a swarm of amazingly prolific nonprofessionals posting up-to-the-minute stories and pictures of breaking news from their laptops.

When I first read this, I was skeptical, fearing so-called citizen reporters would undermine the credibility of journalism. A month after the Wired piece, I wrote The Media World as It Is for Inside Higher Ed:

(T)he promise of technology that it would build social networks, democratize news and generally enhance information in two-way flows has always hinged on the presumption of readily available and verifiableinformation. What are the consequences, not only for media, but for academe, when opinion displaces fact?

I was worried about fake news years before President Donald Trump claimed to have invented that term.

But my own opinion has changed as technology became more powerful, mobile and ubiquitous in the form of a cellphone, especially the iPhone, which first made its debut in 2007.

Apples inaugural device included many features we still use every day, such a web browser, email, text messaging, music and video players, and maps applications. It also came with a first-generation YouTube default app.

By 2009, YouTube was registeringmore than a billion views per day. Now there are more than 2 billion users.

The power of cellphones is epic. We call them smartphones for a reason. The2020 iPhone 11 Pro Max boasts a 12-megapixel ultra-wide, wide angle, and telephoto lens. Its video is as sharp as any network television camera, with a processor and neural engine capable delivering more than 1 trillion operations per second.

It can capture just about anything within a 120-degree field of view.

The increasing power of cellphones coincided with the decreasing presence of reporters. They are not yet extinct, but on societys endangered species list. Between 2008 and 2020, U.S.newsrooms lost half of their employees, according to Pew Research Center.

News deserts are popping up all over. As Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, notes in News Deserts And Ghost Newspapers: Will Local News Survive?:

Many of the countrys 6,700 surviving papers have become ghost newspapers mere shells of their former selves, with greatly diminished newsrooms and readership. The loss of both journalists and circulation speaks to the declining influence of local newspapers, and raises questions about their long-term financial viability in a digital era.

The choice is obvious: Bemoan journalisms decline or inspire thousands of opinionated but omnipresent smartphone users. I embrace the latter. They may be the only option left to hold government and law enforcement in check.

They also have cellphones. Increasingly they document racism under the genre while being Black with African Americans insulted, threatened or arrested doing everyday things. Earlier this year Amy Cooper, a white woman, threw a viral tantrum and called police after a Black birdwatcher in Central Park asked her to leash her dog.

These frequent encounters are becoming more ominous. In June, Mark and Susan McCloskey brandished weapons at protesters who passed their palatial home in St. Louis. Another white couple, Jillian and Eric Wuestenberg, were charged with felonious assault in a parking lot incident during which Jillian pointed a gun at a Black mother and her 15-year-old daughter.

Because cellphones recorded each incident, consequences ensued. Cooper lost her job at an investment corporation and faces misdemeanor charges. Eric Wuestenberg was fired from his support staff position at Oakland University. The McCloskeys were each charged with one count of unlawful use of a weapon.

These videos are deeply troubling, but the one shot by 17-year-old Darnella Frazier was horrifying. Some called the documented killing of George Floyd a state-sponsored execution.

Frazier was on a grocery store run with her 9-year-old cousin when she saw Floyd being arrested. She used her cellphone to capture former police officer Derek Chauvin with his knee on Floyds neck, killing him.

Fraziers lawyer, Seth Cobin, told the BBC, She felt she had to document it. Its like the civil rights movement was reborn in a whole new way, because of that video.

The comment about civil rights reverberates in former reporters of that era. The primary goal in the 1960s and early 1970s was equal treatment in all aspects of society for African Americans. I covered protests by the American Indian Movement whose leaders, including Dennis Banks and Russell Means, sought economic independence, preservation of native culture, autonomy over tribal areas and restoration of stolen lands.

Civil rights and liberties are fundamental aspects of journalism education, which utilizes case law associated with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, among other statutes.

Civil liberties are associated with the Constitution.

Every journalism graduate should know freedoms of the First Amendment press, speech, religion, assembly and petition as well as unlawful seizures of the Fourth Amendment and due process of the Fourteenth.

Those liberties are at the heart of a federal lawsuit filed against the city of Minneapolis and its police department for actions against reporters covering George Floyd protests. The suit alleges that reporters were assaulted and arrested by police without cause, all after these journalists identified themselves and were otherwise clearly engaged in their reporting duties.

Protesters have the same rights as reporters, according to 42 U.S. Code 1983, which protects citizens from being deprived of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution.Any entity violating that law can be held liable in class actions.

Everyone should know that.

But does everyone need journalism? I think they do.

And yet, journalism rarely is on the list of required courses in colleges and universities. That has to do in part with the history of general education. Originally, in the early 19th century, it sought to complete the liberal education of the aristocracy. In the 1960s, it attempted to make liberal education more accessible to nontraditional students. The culture wars of the 1980s heightened consciousness about feminism and canons of underrepresented groups. More recently, general education exploded with dozens of courses based on budget models rewarding departmental enrollment.

Nevertheless, gen-ed courses still fall under the usual umbrellas of humanities, social sciences, and math and physical/biological sciences.

Rarely will you find journalism in the mix. Many reporting courses are skill-based and excluded on that basis. Journalism is neither humanities nor social sciences; it is one or the other and sometimes both. Courses like media history clearly fall in the humanities camp; others like public affairs reporting in the social sciences group; and science communication in both.

General education includes survey, theory and concept classes. When viewed in that manner, several journalism courses easily adapt.

They also may be popular. Americans on average use smartphones about 5.4 hours per day. The 16-24 demographic interacts on social media about 3 hours per day. As such, general education students would benefit from courses in news/media literacy, cultivating the next generation of news consumers who possess the ability to spot fake news and dis/misinformation.

A survey course in media law and ethics also might enlighten students about rights, liberties and precedents, all of which are vital for future generations seeking change.

A theory class in world press systems might expand and diversify knowledge. Specialized courses might be popular, too, such as History of the Black Press, Social Media and Change or Gone Viral: Videos That Made History.

Journalism education has focused for decades on graduates securing media jobs. As those decrease, along with enrollments, the future of the discipline might depend more on general education. But the case here is about democracy, accountability, transparency and empowerment.

Without a robust news industry, monitoring government and investigating the corporate elite, our only hope may be in the hands of the people, literally and figuratively.

Michael Bugeja, distinguished professor of journalism at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, teaches media ethics and technology and social change. He can be reached at bugeja@iastate.edu.

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Second Circuit Nixes Conviction Based on Racially-Motivated Stop – JD Supra

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In United States v. Walker, the Second Circuit (Calabresi, Pooler, Carney) considered a challenge to the conviction of Jaquan Walker on drug charges. Police officers found drugs on Walker after they stopped and questioned him. The justification for the stop was that Walker resembles an image of a black men believed to have been involved in a shooting, and because Walker happened to be walking about five blocks from the site of that shooting. In a remarkably pointed decision, the Circuit threw out the conviction.

Background

On September 1, 2017, Sergeant Peter Montanino of the City of Troy Police Department received an email from another officer stating: trying to ID suspect #2 in this photo. Attached to the email was an image of a black man of thin build and medium height labeled suspect #2. Montanino would later testify that he believed the email related to a recent shooting. The email itself, however, did not identify suspect #2 as the suspected shooter, or mention a shooting at all.

The following day, Montanino was on patrol in the central business district, near the scene of the shooting, when he came across Walker and his friend Javone Hopkins. Remembering the email from the prior day, Montanino suspected that Walker or Hopkins could be suspect #2 because both were, as Montanino described, medium to dark skin toned black males with a thin build and goatees.

Montanino called over two of his subordinates, officers Owen Conway and Martin Furciniti, asking whether they recognized either Walker or Hopkins. The other officers were unable to identify Walker or Hopkins after observing them from their patrol car, so Montanino decided to conduct what was called a stop out. In the Troy Police Department, a stop out refers to a standard practice whereby officers get out of their vehicle, approach a pedestrian and request identification, and then check for any outstanding warrants.

Proceeding with the stop out, Conway and Furciniti pulled their vehicle up ahead of Walker and Hopkins, while Montanino pulled his up behind them. The officers got out of their vehicles, converged on Walker and Hopkins, and instructed them to stop. At this point, the officers discerned that neither Walker nor Hopkins was suspect #2. Nonetheless, the officers asked Walker and Hopkins for identification, and the two complied. Hopkins had no warrants and was permitted to leave. Walker, however, had an outstanding felony warrant. The officers placed Walker in handcuffs. A search incident to the arrest uncovered marijuana and fifty grams of crack cocaine.

Walker was charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. In pretrial proceedings, Walker moved to suppress the drug evidence on the ground that the officers lacked reasonable suspicion of a crime when they stopped him and Hopkins. The District Court denied the motion, finding the stop proper because Walker (1) resembles the image of suspect #2 in that they both are medium-to-dark skinned males with a thin build and facial hair, and (2) was walking about five blocks from the scene of a previous shooting. It held that the initial stop was lawful and that the arrest and incidental search were lawful on account of the arrest warrant.

Having lost the suppression motion, Walker agreed to enter a conditional guilty plea that preserved his right to appeal the denial of his motion.

The Circuits Decision

On appeal, Walker again argued that the officers improperly stopped him because they did not have reasonable suspicion of a crime. The panel reversed the denial of Walkers suppression motion; this was not a close case.

By way of background, a law enforcement officer may, in some circumstances, stop an individual for questioning, even if the officer does not have probable cause to arrest the individual. To conduct such a stopoften referred to as a Terry stopthe officer must have a reasonable suspicion that the individual is committing or has committed a crime. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968). If an officer stops someone without such reasonable suspicion, the stop is unlawful, and any evidence obtained pursuant to that stop is generally inadmissible. Terry was a late-Warren Court decision, a setback for defendants and a ruling rendered after numerous decisions that affirmed the right of the accused, and at a time when crime rates were beginning to rise. Over time, Terry stops have become contentious because of racial disparity in who police decide to stop in many major cities, including cities in New York State.

Here, the panel had little trouble concluding that Montanino, Conway, and Furciniti lacked a sufficient basis to stop Walker. The panel identified several reasons why stopping Walker was unlawful.

First, the email and accompanying photograph depicting suspect #2 did not set forth specific and articulable facts showing that a crime had occurred. The email did not mention a crime, much less a shooting, much less that suspect #2 was the suspected shooter. Given that the picture did not provide reasonable suspicion that suspect #2 has committed a crime, it would have been unlawful to stop suspect #2 even if officers were certain of his identity.

Second, even if the email had sufficiently articulated that suspect #2 had committed a crime, the fact that both suspect #2 and Walker are medium-to-dark skin males with thin builds and facial hair was insufficient to generate a reasonable suspicion that Walker was suspect #2. As the panel noted, black male and medium-to-dark skin are descriptors that capture a wide swath of individuals. So too for the other similarities between Walker and suspect #2. Even combining these characteristics, the panel was not convinced that the similarities identified by Montanino identified a narrow enough subset of individuals to constitute a reasonable suspicion that Walker was suspect #2. As the panel pointed out, even Terry warned that courts needed to guard against police conduct which is over-bearing or harassing, or which trenches upon personal security without the objective evidentiary justification which the Constitution requires. 392 U.S. at 15.

Finally, the fact that Walker had been walking a few blocks from the scene of a previous shooting was insufficient to raise a reasonable suspicion that he was involved in the shooting. The area where officers stopped Walker was the central business district of Troy and it was not uncommon for pedestrians to walk there during that time of the afternoon.

Although the panel found the initial stop unlawful, this does not end the inquiry because the government contended that the outstanding warrant permitted the arrest and search of Walker, under the so-called attenuation doctrine. Under that doctrine, even if an initial stop is unlawful, evidence is admissible if the connection between unconstitutional police conduct and the evidence is remote or has been interrupted by some intervening circumstance. Here, the government argued that the outstanding warrant was an intervening circumstance that permitted the officers to arrest and search Walker.

The panel disagreed. Courts weigh three factors in deciding whether to apply that exception to the exclusionary rule.

The first factor is the temporal proximity between the unconstitutional conduct and the discovery of the evidence. This factor clearly cut against attenuation because the drugs were found on Walkers person mere minutes after the unlawful stop.

The second factor is the presence of an intervening circumstance. An outstanding arrest warrant for an unrelated offense has been recognized as an intervening circumstance, so that factor weighed in favor of attenuation.

The final, and here decisive, factor is whether the officers conduct was purposeful or flagrant. The panel concluded that the officers conduct here was indeed flagrant for two reasons. First, there was an extreme lack of reasonable suspicion that Walker had committed a crime. As discussed, the entire premise of the stopthe email and image of suspect #2was flawed because nothing in the email identified a crime or identified suspect #2 as having committed a crime. Second, the similarities between Walker and suspect #2 were far too general to justify a stop. Indeed, there were likely many pedestrians walking in the central business district that fit Montaninos recollection of suspect #2. In addition, the panel found the officers conduct flagrant because they continued questioning Walker even after they realized he was not suspect #2. At that time, any reasonable suspicion supported by the image of suspect #2 vanished, and the officers should have ended the stop forthwith.

Having determined that two factors weigh against attenuation, the panel held that the attenuation doctrine did not apply. Because the stop was unlawful, the evidence obtained while searching Walker was inadmissible. Walkers conviction was vacated, and the case sent back to the District Court. In all likelihood, Walker will not be retried on these charges because the drugs are no longer admissible as evidence.

Analysis

Although the panel did not expressly label Montanino, Conway, and Furcinitis conduct as racial profiling, the panel was clearly disturbed by the proffered justification for stopping Walker. If the officers were justified in stopping Walker, they would essentially be justified in stopping almost any black man walking anywhere near a crime scene. This becomes clear in view of the image of suspect #2.

The image is so non-descript that an officer could conceivably stop any black man of average height and weight based on this photograph.

Permitting stops such as this one undermines the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure. Equally important, the decision must also be viewed in light of the disturbing reality that black men are disproportionately stopped, questioned, and arrested by police at a higher rate than other demographics. These racially-motivated stops undermine trust in law enforcement and exacerbate racial inequalities. The stop in this case is particularly troubling because it appears to be part of a standard practice of the Troy Police Department to stop individuals who are unknown to officers. The panel did not decide whether this policy is inherently unconstitutional (it likely is), but it is clear that such a policy increases incidents of racial profiling by giving officers carte blanche to stop and question whoever they choose.

Hopefully this decision will serve as a wakeup call that officers may not stop someone without an adequate reason to think the person is committing or has committed a crime. One can only hope that police departments reevaluate their practices in light of this opinion. Although Walker won his case, he is just one of many victims of overzealous policing. Congress is considering legislation to prohibit racial profiling by police officers and police departments, which isto say the leastlong overdue. See H.R. 7120, Title III, Subtitle A (End Racial and Religious Profiling Act of 2020) (engrossed in House June 25, 2020).[1]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120/text

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Finding a coronavirus vaccine is key, but finding a way to distribute it on a global scale will be equally crucial. This effort will take building a manufacturing and supply chain capacity larger than ever before, more quickly than ever for vaccine distribution. That success also requires leveraging tools and capabilities such as blockchain in a way never seen before in the history of fighting pandemics.

Scale and the challenge ahead

Decades of running immunization programs by UNICEF and Gavi Alliance tell us that vaccine supply chain and delivery takes years to stabilize depending on the geography. For instance, polio immunizations in India took more than a decade to cover 100% of the populations children 175 million under age five. The Pulse Polio immunization program was launched in 1995 with the last case reported in 2011.

Additionally, UNICEF, worlds largest vaccine buyer for children, procured 2.43 billion doses of vaccines in 2019 to reach approximately less than half of the worlds children under five for an effort covering a range of diseases (including measles, diarrhoea, pneumonia and polio).

The unique challenge of scale is greater in the COVID-19 pandemic and that challenge is precedent setting. This vaccine must cover every country in every continent and every person in every age group. Assuming the approved vaccine requires just one dosage per individual, at least 7 billion doses of the vaccine will need to be in the hands of healthcare workers. Assuming a 20-30% loss during transit and storage, this could mean close to 10 billion doses in the supply chain. Should the vaccine administration require two dosages per individual, the volume needed could top 19 billion vials.

The different stages of coronavirus vaccines being developed.

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Building an equitable, responsive system

A supply chain for COVID-19s vaccine will also be unique. While multiple geo-political, economic and nationalistic interests will influence who discovers the cure, who manufactures it, who funds it and who needs it, the supply chain must be equitable. There must be a global consensus on who should get it first, one not based on who can buy it first. Such an equitable supply chain can only be built on a doubtless, openly verifiable, consensus-driven system having immutable integrity of data with no single source of control. To achieve the global optimum, instead of a national or regional optimum, vaccine access will critically depend on an information system with the highest possible integrity, capable of avoiding forces of vested interests. Thus, blockchain and distributed ledger technology will be essential for an equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Additionally, the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain information system must be built with real-time tracking capability and updates on parameters such as vaccine storage levels, temperature control, stock-outs, quantities of ancillary supplies (diluent, syringes and needles, glass vials, rubber stoppers, plungers, wicks and kerosene for refrigerators etc.). This becomes imperative in calculating the most important parameter, vaccine wastage rate a key input to anticipate demand, plan manufacturing and supplies, and reducing stock-outs/over-stocks. At the scale of ~10 billion units, estimates of wastage at every stage of the supply chain and its accuracy can be the key in ensuring or denying access to the vaccine for large segments of population. Here again, blockchain will be critical.

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology will be essential for an equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Even now in our current scenario, we dont have accurate estimates of wastage rates. In the absence of national figures, WHO issues Indicative Vaccine Wastage Rates and a tool for estimation. However, the tool itself acknowledges a lack of accurate and appropriate data at the country level, thanks in part to overburdened systems reporting data that are late or incomplete, and the difficulties in identifying a vaccines target demographic. A report on immunization information systems by WHO under project Optimize, a WHO-PATH project to facilitate an efficient vaccine supply chain, hints that even the Gavi Alliance has seen its attempts to make financial support proportional to performance targets get limited by questions regarding data variances. For the COVID-19 vaccine, we would need live tracking of every vial with all the storage and handling environment parameters with doubtless integrity and open accessibility by all stakeholders which can only be done with a decentralised open ledger.

Efforts leveraging blockchain technology have been undertaken across the globe, in context of supply chain at ports, in retail and logistics. Blockchain has been mostly used in these pilot experiments to enable real-time tracking of shipments and shared access of data between consortium members, building trust. The learnings from these pilots can now be utilized to enable a truly global ledger for the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain.

Efforts to leverage blockchain for vaccines are already in development. One UNICEF Innovation Fund and Gavi Infuse portfolio startup, StaTwig, has been building and testing a vaccine supply chain management platform which ensures all stakeholders have complete visibility of all vaccines at national, state and district levels and at different stages of the supply chain. The platform uses QRcodes [Barcodes/Serial Numbers] printed at unit-levels to track the vaccines from the manufacturer to end-consumer on an open source blockchain platform. At each touchpoint in the supply chain, the platform records data such as quantity, temperature record, timestamps, chain of custody and price against the unique QRcode. The platform supports aggregation and disaggregation so that the number of QRcode scans can be reduced exponentially at pallet, box-levels. This process also simplifies tracking of the products in the extended supply chains which includes last-mile deliveries. StaTwigs teams have been testing the solution with UNICEF program teams in the Middle East, North Africa and in India as well.

The World Economic Forum has produced a report on Inclusive Deployment of Blockchain for Supply Chains A Framework for Blockchain Interoperability. This report, in collaboration with Deloitte, helps organizations understand the importance of interoperable blockchains and outlines a decision framework to support their development and execution. The report is the seventh in a series, offering analysis that helps organizations responsibly deploy blockchain and distributed ledger technology in supply chains, to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of the technology.

Helpful in these efforts is a recently released Blockchain Deployment Toolkit. Developed by the World Economic Forum Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution, the toolkit helps in building a shared truth in supply chains depending on trust, transparency and integrity, informing the deployment of new use cases.

Still, more needs to be done. Such an effort would require global coordination of digitizing the vaccine supply chains, retraining and digi-skilling of the involved workforce and aligning all the players manufacturers, suppliers, buyers, frontline health workers and governments towards a consensus to use such a system. Large scale deployment of IoT devices would be required across the whole inventory and logistics, to maintain real-time tracking without too much manual intervention. Since a shared tracking of data may also give rise to concerns around privacy (for both individuals and enterprises alike), privacy preserving techniques would need to be fundamentally coded into the information system.

Such efforts to build an open system to track and trace every vaccine dose accurately and transparently will be required to build a global consortium of vaccine researchers, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, distributors, healthcare workers and governments. Blockchain technology allows us to do this at scale, building trust and transparency which will reduce the vaccine wastage rates, eliminate stockouts and ensure a truly equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to the entirety of human population.

Weve reached an important juncture in technology evolution where the right tools, resources and optimism are present. Leveraged correctly, it is an unprecedented opportunity to capture the minds of innovators to build a first-ever solution to save human lives around the globe.

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Punit Shukla, Project Lead, Blockchain and Digital Assets, World Economic Forum, Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution India

Amey Rajput, Fellow, Blockchain and Digital Assets, World Economic Forum, Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution India

Sid Chakravarthy, Founder & CEO, Statwig

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Announcing the Launch of DocuWalk from ShelterZoom, a Blockchain-Based ‘Virtual Negotiating Room’ and Secure Document Management Platform – Business…

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As millions around the world face the new normal of conducting routine business virtually and working remotely, the new user-friendly blockchain-based platform DocuWalkTM launched today with its innovative virtual negotiating and collaboration room. The subscription-based technology service allows all types of businesses to store documents, negotiate transactions and finalize contracts in a transparent, blockchain-secure online ecosystem.

DocuWalk is the latest platform from the leading blockchain Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company ShelterZoom. The DocuWalk platform reduces layers of facilitation in the document, contracting and transaction process by turning documents into easily accessible intelligent assets that are stored in a secure space which can easily be collaborated on or shared in real time, with privacy top-of-mind. With DocuWalk, the world now has a fully integrated, fast communication, document and contract management platform they can trust. A brief 60 second video demonstration of how the platform works can be found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHQi2U7xlco&feature=youtu.be

The early adopters of DocuWalk include a variety of small businesses, real estate, consulting, legal and media companies, as well as individuals who are adapting to the new way of conducting business or managing personal, confidential records.

Before DocuWalk, I was using almost a dozen different applications to facilitate investor relations, corporate communications, vendor contracts and employee agreements. Since I started using DocuWalk myself as a test case, the platform has consolidated all those different applications into one easy-to-use platform that has reduced so much cost, saved time and increased our organizations productivity, said Chao Cheng-Shorland, CEO and Co-Founder of ShelterZoom.

Security, trust and efficiency are all paramount and needed when working in the public sector. DocuWalks platform provides all three needs by delivering safer, more transparent transactions, documents and communications at a quicker and less expensive pace. DocuWalk has the ability to transform how the public sector handles any transactions where documentation is needed, said Robert J. Kovey, Managing Partner of The Credo Company, a leading public sector consulting firm.

DocuWalk creates a level of ease and efficiency that real estate and many other industries can use to lower their costs and increase their profit margins, said John Featherston, CEO of RISMedia, a major real estate information and media publication company and one of the early adopters of DocuWalk. Agents, brokers, and their clients can have a much smoother transaction process by managing all the back and forth for every document or contract involved in a property sale. As real estate adapts to more virtual closings and remote operations as a result of COVID-19, DocuWalk provides an end-to-end solution for everyone involved in the transaction.

There are a variety of subscription-based packages available for DocuWalk users, including a free basic version that includes a blockchain signature. For the virtual negotiating room and expanded capabilities, monthly packages range from $9-19 per month, including options for enterprise entities. All DocuWalk contracts can be signed with blockchain-based security.

Organizations can also license the platform for their proprietary use, giving them a jump start in using ShelterZooms patented blockchain-based technology with a minimum upfront cost.

DocuWalk has created an exciting new paradigm that brings all types of documents into one integrated ecosystem on the blockchain, said Allen Alishahi, President and Co-Founder of ShelterZoom. In anticipation of a more virtual-centric work environment and e-commerce-driven economy, we plan to introduce more features and product lines to allow companies to conduct e-business as usual in line with our vision.

To create a FREE DocuWalk account or to find out more information on ShelterZoom and its latest expanded platform, please visit http://www.docuwalk.com.

For more information or to schedule interviews please contact Josh Knoller at Nicholas & Lence Communications: 212-938-0836 or Josh@nicholaslence.com.

About DocuWalk and ShelterZoom

DocuWalk is ShelterZooms second-generation, industry-agnostic, smart-contract-based SAAS platform that transforms records, documents, and contracts into fully digital, interoperable and intelligent assets with unprecedented efficiency, security and data privacy. A market leader in blockchain, ShelterZoom is more than just a software company. ShelterZoom is changing the way the global market thinks about remote operations and collaboration. For more information, visit http://www.docuwalk.com.

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Blockchain is a technology that has the capability to streamline, supply chain, eliminate huge-amount of record-keeping, and helps to increase the revenue of the organization. Moreover, the COVID-19 outbreak has imposed a positive impact on the blockchain market, throughout the projected period. Increased adoption of simplifying the business and processes along with demand for integration of blockchain technology in supply chain management (SCM) applications is anticipated to drive the global market. Also, many government authorities across the world are adopting the blockchain technology, to reduce the COVID-19 impact. For instance, in March 2020, the Dutch government has adopted blockchain technology by tech against Corona initiative to curb the pandemic impact. Also, Tymlez the leading company in blockchain technology is freely offering services to the Dutch government for the prevention of predatory value extraction, like price gouging. Furthermore, Amid COVID-19 Situation, the U.S. government has also considered blockchain as critical service. These key factors may positively surge the growth of global blockchain, during the forecast period

This report is designed to guide leaders in strategic, operational, and financial planning over, the next upcoming years. Our report consists of:

According to the recently published report by Research Dive, the global Blockchain market is expected to register a revenue of $174.9 billion by 2027, rising at a healthy CAGR from 2019 to 2027. The report segments the global market based on the type, application, enterprise size, end-user, and region. The report provides key insights of lucrative opportunities, drivers, vital segments, restraints, and market players.

Factors Affecting the Market Growth

As per the publication of Research dive, the substantial growth of the global blockchain market is mainly attributed to extensively rising demand from BFSI ferms for the enhancement in personalized products and services of the customers. However, the dearth of expertise in the field may be projected to restrain the growth of the global blockchain, during the analysis period.

Public network segment will have exponential growth in the global marketplace

On the basis of type, the global market is classified into public, private, side-chains, and, hybrid. The public network segment will register significant revenue and is expected to witness the massive growth in the analysis period. Increased adoption of blockchain in the public sector for secure and transparent transactions may rise the growth of the segment, during the forecast period.

The Financial Services will Foresee Massive Growth

Based on the application the global blockchain market is broadly classified into smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, financial services, supply chain, video games, domain names, and others. The financial services are anticipated to surge with a remarkable CAGR, majorly due to cost-effectiveness and highly secured transactions.

Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises will be the most Lucrative

On the basis of enterprises, the market is bifurcated into Size Small & Medium Enterprise(SMEs) and Large Enterprise. The small & medium-sized enterprises will have rapid market growth during the analysis period; mainly because of Integration artificial intelligence along with an increased need for business streamlining in SMEs.

Check out How COVID-19 impact on the Blockchain Market @ https://www.researchdive.com/connect-to-analyst/317

BFSI segment is expected to be the Most Profitable segments over the projected period

Based on the end-user the market is broadly classified into BFSI, government, healthcare & life science, retail & e-Commerce, transportation & logistics, and others. The BFSI segment is expected to generate remarkable revenue, and is anticipated to grow at health CAGR, during the forecast period; mainly because of the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, along with it helps in rapid & secured transactions.

Regional Breakdown of the Market

Based on the region, the global market blockchain market is classified into North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and LAMEA. Asia-Pacific region for the blockchain market is anticipated to increase at a lucrative CAGR in the analysis period. This is mainly because of a massive transformation in digitalization such as digital wallets, smart contacts, and digital payment particularly in Japan, South Korea, and India.

The leading key players in the blockchain market include INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft, SAP SE, Guardtime, Bitfury Group Limited., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Intel Corporation and, Oracle

About Us:Research Dive is a market research firm based in Pune, India. Maintaining the integrity and authenticity of the services, the firm provides the services that are solely based on its exclusive data model, compelled by the 360-degree research methodology, which guarantees comprehensive and accurate analysis. With unprecedented access to several paid data resources, team of expert researchers, and strict work ethic, the firm offers insights that are extremely precise and reliable. Scrutinizing relevant news releases, government publications, decades of trade data, and technical & white papers, Research dive deliver the required services to its clients well within the required timeframe. Its expertise is focused on examining niche markets, targeting its major driving factors, and spotting threatening hindrances. Complementarily, it also has a seamless collaboration with the major industry aficionado that further offers its research an edge.

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Blockchain Market: Revenue Growth, Applications Insights and COVID-19 Analysis Report – 3rd Watch News

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Blockchain is a technology that has the capability to streamline, supply chain, eliminate huge-amount of record-keeping, and helps to increase the revenue of the organization. Moreover, the COVID-19 outbreak has imposed a positive impact on the blockchain market, throughout the projected period. Increased adoption of simplifying the business and processes along with demand for integration of blockchain technology in supply chain management (SCM) applications is anticipated to drive the global market. Also, many government authorities across the world are adopting the blockchain technology, to reduce the COVID-19 impact. For instance, in March 2020, the Dutch government has adopted blockchain technology by tech against Corona initiative to curb the pandemic impact. Also, Tymlez the leading company in blockchain technology is freely offering services to the Dutch government for the prevention of predatory value extraction, like price gouging. Furthermore, Amid COVID-19 Situation, the U.S. government has also considered blockchain as critical service. These key factors may positively surge the growth of global blockchain, during the forecast period

This report is designed to guide leaders in strategic, operational, and financial planning over, the next upcoming years. Our report consists of:

According to the recently published report by Research Dive, the global Blockchain market is expected to register a revenue of $174.9 billion by 2027, rising at a healthy CAGR from 2019 to 2027. The report segments the global market based on the type, application, enterprise size, end-user, and region. The report provides key insights of lucrative opportunities, drivers, vital segments, restraints, and market players.

Factors Affecting the Market Growth

As per the publication of Research dive, the substantial growth of the global blockchain market is mainly attributed to extensively rising demand from BFSI ferms for the enhancement in personalized products and services of the customers. However, the dearth of expertise in the field may be projected to restrain the growth of the global blockchain, during the analysis period.

Public network segment will have exponential growth in the global marketplace

On the basis of type, the global market is classified into public, private, side-chains, and, hybrid. The public network segment will register significant revenue and is expected to witness the massive growth in the analysis period. Increased adoption of blockchain in the public sector for secure and transparent transactions may rise the growth of the segment, during the forecast period.

The Financial Services will Foresee Massive Growth

Based on the application the global blockchain market is broadly classified into smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, financial services, supply chain, video games, domain names, and others. The financial services are anticipated to surge with a remarkable CAGR, majorly due to cost-effectiveness and highly secured transactions.

Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises will be the most Lucrative

On the basis of enterprises, the market is bifurcated into Size Small & Medium Enterprise(SMEs) and Large Enterprise. The small & medium-sized enterprises will have rapid market growth during the analysis period; mainly because of Integration artificial intelligence along with an increased need for business streamlining in SMEs.

Check out How COVID-19 impact on the Blockchain Market @ https://www.researchdive.com/connect-to-analyst/317

BFSI segment is expected to be the Most Profitable segments over the projected period

Based on the end-user the market is broadly classified into BFSI, government, healthcare & life science, retail & e-Commerce, transportation & logistics, and others. The BFSI segment is expected to generate remarkable revenue, and is anticipated to grow at health CAGR, during the forecast period; mainly because of the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, along with it helps in rapid & secured transactions.

Regional Breakdown of the Market

Based on the region, the global market blockchain market is classified into North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and LAMEA. Asia-Pacific region for the blockchain market is anticipated to increase at a lucrative CAGR in the analysis period. This is mainly because of a massive transformation in digitalization such as digital wallets, smart contacts, and digital payment particularly in Japan, South Korea, and India.

The leading key players in the blockchain market include INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft, SAP SE, Guardtime, Bitfury Group Limited., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Intel Corporation and, Oracle

About Us:Research Dive is a market research firm based in Pune, India. Maintaining the integrity and authenticity of the services, the firm provides the services that are solely based on its exclusive data model, compelled by the 360-degree research methodology, which guarantees comprehensive and accurate analysis. With unprecedented access to several paid data resources, team of expert researchers, and strict work ethic, the firm offers insights that are extremely precise and reliable. Scrutinizing relevant news releases, government publications, decades of trade data, and technical & white papers, Research dive deliver the required services to its clients well within the required timeframe. Its expertise is focused on examining niche markets, targeting its major driving factors, and spotting threatening hindrances. Complementarily, it also has a seamless collaboration with the major industry aficionado that further offers its research an edge.

Contact us:Mr. Abhishek PaliwalResearch Dive30 Wall St. 8th Floor, New YorkNY 10005 (P)+ 91 (788) 802-9103 (India)+1 (917) 444-1262 (US)Toll Free: +1-888-961-4454E-mail: [emailprotected]LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/research-dive/Twitter:https://twitter.com/ResearchDiveFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/Research-Dive-1385542314927521Blog:https://www.researchdive.com/blogFollow us:https://marketinsightinformation.blogspot.com/

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Beaver County schools to begin new year online – WKBN.com

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Superintendent Jeffrey Fuller said the online start will allow the district more flexibility in its planning

Posted: Jul 24, 2020 / 05:12 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 24, 2020 / 05:22 AM EDT

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FREEDOM, Pa. (WKBN) The Freedom Area School District in Beaver County voted to start the new school year entirely online.

According to CBS affiliate KDKA, the school board voted Thursday night 8 to 1 in favor of the plan.

Superintendent Jeffrey Fuller said the online start will allow the district more flexibility in its planning.

Four models are being explored by the district that could be implemented at any time and include:

In a video provided to the district explaining the reopening options, Fuller said the Virtual (All out) plan would be implemented if state authorities said it would not be safe for students to be in the classroom.

There are two models for virtual learning which are synchronous and asynchronous. Synchronous would mean all students attend class online together. Asynchronous means that students would watch recorded lessons and may be able to log on and have conversations and chat with the teacher. Fuller said the district is leaning toward the synchronous model.

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Hoover’s Branson honored as 2020 Freedom Award winner – Shelby County Reporter – Shelby County Reporter

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HOOVER Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ginger Branson was honored as the Hoover Area Chamber of Commerces 2020 Freedom Award recipient at a presentation held Thursday, July 16 at Aldridge Gardens and via Facebook Live.

Branson was lauded for her 28 years of military service as a nurse, including two years of active duty in the Gulf War in Operation Desert Storm, and for her ongoing post-military work to support other veterans and their families.

She lives and breathes patriotism in everything she does, retired U.S. Army Gen. Paul Pocopanni said of Branson. Theres no one who works harder and longer to take care of and honor our veterans than Ginger Branson.

Branson serves as the commander of American Legion Post 911 in Hoover and as the American Legion 21st District commander.

Branson also represents the American Legion on the Veterans Administration Voluntary Services Committee.

Also on Bransons extensive list of community involvement that Pocopanni read during the award presentation were the following: Branson serves as local director of Wreaths Across America; she will be inducted into the Alabama Senior Citizens Hall of Fame in the near future; she was awarded the Positive Maturity Volunteer Spirit Award in 2019; she is a published author and parish nurse at Avondale UMC; she knits shawls with a group at Canterbury United Methodist Church; she has made hundreds of masks during the pandemic; and she is a member of the Support Committee for the Alabama National Cemetery.

Pocopanni described Branson as a hard worker and multitasker known for her steadfast volunteerism and love and devotion for veterans causes.

The Hoover Freedom Award was designed for someone like Lt. Col. Ginger Branson to be honored and recognized for her selfless dedication to the community, to the state and to our nation, Pocopanni said. Her professionalism, both as a nurse and an army officer, and her steadfast desire to help our veterans, are unmatched.

Branson said the most enjoyable time for her during the COVID-19 quarantine the last four months has been her daily phone calls with veterans.

Every afternoon I choose one or two World War II or Korean War veterans, and I just call them, she said. I introduce myself, ask them if they need anything, how theyre doing, and then I just listen to them. Heres the thing like all of us, they cant go anywhere, not even to church, which is for a lot of them their lifeline. But unlike most of us, if they contract COVID-19, theyre exponentially more likely to die from it. So, while for me sequestration has been an opportunity, for many solitude has brought about loneliness, and loneliness for months on end is agony and can lead to hopelessness and despair.

Branson encouraged those who are able to go through their contact lists and check in with people who might be coping with isolation.

I promise you there are people on there you havent talked to in a very, very long time, she said. Please call them and just tell them, Hey Im doing a buddy check, wondering how youre doing and if you need anything. Listen to them, and then of course invite them to have a blessed day. Please do your part to help turn someones lonely day into a brighter one.

The sponsor of this years Freedom Awards luncheon was Medical West, which will open a primary care facility in the Brocks Gap community this fall, Medical West CEO Keith Pennington wrote in a statement shared during the award presentation.

Were thrilled to be able to offer this service to families in the Hoover area, Pennington wrote. Medical West is also excited to once again be a supporter of the Hoover Bucs. As we work through the reopening of schools and sports programs, we plan to work with Hoover High School to see how our funds can best be used to support their students.

American Village Development Director Jeremy Ward served as speaker at the presentation and provided an overview of programs and activities offered at the American history and civics education center located in Montevallo.

Our mission is to strengthen and renew the foundations of American liberty and constitutional self-government by engaging and inspiring citizens and leaders, especially with emphasis on programs for young people, Ward said. The American Village is committed to telling the incredible stories of Americas struggle for independence and examining how the lessons contained within those stories are still vitally relevant today in our roles as private citizens.

Ward said the American Villages primary goals are: To teach youth the vital lessons of liberty; to remember the price of liberty and honor those who have paid it; to promote public regard for the Constitution and Americas chartered freedom; to engage citizens and leaders in the stewardship of liberty; and to foster renewal of the American spirit of E pluribus unum, or from many, one.

Ward said work is underway on the first phase of a multi-phase project to bring a full-scale replica of Philadelphias Independence Hall to the American Villages 188-acre campus.

During the venues closure amid the COVID-19 pandemic, staff are working to restructure many on-campus educational offerings in preparation for the 2020-2021 school year.

We are currently planning for a very different school year, Ward said. We will continue to offer our engaging programs on campus. Those will be available for public, private, homeschools. We are working very diligently to offer many of our educational programs virtually and are producing several short, easily accessed videos in line with Alabama Course of Study for social studies to be offered at little to no cost.

Every year, Freedom Award recipients are selected from nominees, each of whom are:

We want to support our country, our laws, and particularly the men and women that lay their lives down each and every day so that we would have these wonderful freedoms that we certainly enjoy, Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato said. I am grateful for those who did serve for us.

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Letter to the editor Two kinds of freedom – WV News

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The United States is number one. We have more cases and more deaths from the coronavirus than any other country. Brazil is number two, but the United States has 135 percent more cases and 119 percent more deaths. Of the 20 countries with the most cases, the death rate per 100,000 population in the United States is third highest. We cannot travel to Canada or Europe. Are you tired of winning yet?

Last week, a county employee stood up for the staff of establishments in the county trying to enforce the requirement to wear a mask when people ignore that requirement. This is happening all over the United States. Trump says he will not impose a national requirement to wear masks because he wants people to have a certain freedom. But one must ask, freedom for who?

Our Constitution enshrines critical freedoms for all Americans. The first amendment says that Congress cannot pass laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion, abridge the freedom of speech or of the press. Freedom defines what America is. But these freedoms are not absolute. You cannot yell fire in a crowded movie theater, or use words to incite violence against others, or print things in the paper that libel others.

The Constitution declares, We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. A well-functioning government is responsible for our common defense and our general welfare.

We are under attack by this virus. It has killed almost three times more Americans than died during the Vietnam War. Government must provide for our common defense. Similarly, everyone should be free to safely vote in elections, work to support our families, have safe working conditions, a good public education, and public health and a long life. The government must promote our general welfare. Trumps government is failing. Big time.

Wendell Berry, the rural philosopher, says there are two kinds of freedom: the freedom of the community and the freedom of the individual. The community confers on its members freedoms implicit in familiarity, mutual respect, mutual affection, and mutual help; it gives freedom its proper aims; and prescribes or shows the responsibilities without which no one can be legitimately free

He continues, Freedom defined strictly as individual freedom tends to see itself as an escape from the constraints of community life. The unconstrained pursuit of individual freedom operates invariably to the detriment of community life and community values.

Thus, freedom has two aspects: freedom to pursue your individual interests to be all you can be, and freedom from things that can keep you from moving forward. Be a patriot. Step up to your responsibility as a citizen. Wear a mask so your neighbors can work to support their families and live a safe and healthy life.

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Joe Malinconico, Paterson Press Published 2:21 p.m. ET July 21, 2020

Just a block from Broadway on Auburn Street in Paterson, the influence of drugs is apparent. NorthJersey

PATERSON An apartment building where 82 people were arrested in one day in 2018 was the target of a Paterson police drug bust on Monday during which a loaded gun, 200 packets of heroin and 25 vials of crack cocaine were seized, authorities said.

Mondays bust at 83 Auburn Street underscored the relentless nature of the narcotic trade on the block, one of Patersons notorious open-air drug markets, police said. From 2014 through 2016, Paterson police made more than 200 drug arrests on the block, authorities.

In 2015, city narcotics detectives arrested 87 people on narcotics charges at 90 Auburn Street, the building across the street from where Mondays bust took place, and in 2017 two teenagers were shot one fatally in what police said was a drug-related dispute at 87 Auburn Street.

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After the homicide, Paterson police put a patrol vehicle in front of the building where the killing happened and Auburn Street quieted down for a few weeks. But eventually, the drug trade and gun violence returned.

In Mondays bust, police arrested two suspected drug dealers from Paterson and three alleged customers from Wayne, Clifton and the city of Passaic, according to Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale.

People regularly hang out in front of 83 Auburn Street. Authorities said they saw the three suspected buyers walk up to the building and engaged in drug transactions with young men outside.

City officials designated Auburn Street Freedom Boulevard" in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s 1968 visit to a church there just days before he was assassinated.

Joe Malinconico is editor of Paterson Press. Email: editor@patersonpress.com

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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri: John Lewis, follower of Jesus, fighter for justice, lover of America. Rest In Peace. Resurgam.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson: Congressman John Lewis was a civil rights pioneer who fought for the good of this nation and produced important changes. Rest In Peace, John Lewis.

Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Farewell, sir. You did, indeed, fight the good fight and get into a lot of good trouble. You served God and humanity well. Thank you. Take your rest.

Former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: John Lewis gave all he had to redeem Americas unmet promise of equality and justice for all, and to create a place for us to build a more perfect union together.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California: John Lewis was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation from the determination with which he met discrimination at lunch counters and on Freedom Rides, to the courage he showed as a young man facing down violence and death on Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the moral leadership he brought to the Congress for more than 30 years.

Nathan Law, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and former legislator: RIP Congressman John Lewis. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your activism. Thank you for your lessons.

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David Icke is an anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist who claims to believe, among other things, that an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings called theArchons have hijacked the earth and are stopping humanity from realising its true potential, and that theBritish royal familyare shape-shifting lizards. The controversy about his recent appearance on an eNCA show quickly morphed into a wrong-headed argument about freedom of expression, diverting attention from the ethical accountability of the host.

In his 1994 book, There Is No Such Thing as Free Speech and Its a Good Thing,Too, Stanley Fish argued that neo-conservatives often use sacred abstractions such as freedom of expression to present their partisan political commitments as a universal imperative, as a call to moral arms so perspicuous that only the irrational or the godless (two categories often conflated) could refuse it.

In this view, the sacred abstraction of freedom of expression is used to shield individuals from the consequences of their own (ideologically driven) beliefs and actions. As if by magic, politics is made to disappear, replaced by the chanting of the high-minded quasi-religious slogans associated with the unconditional support for the idea of freedom of expression. The point is not that censorship is acceptable or that freedom of expression is not valuable, but that the latter is often used to obscure political sympathies and to avoid meaningful discussion about the very issue in whose name the right is being invoked.

Freedom of expression is not the only sacred abstraction deployed in this way. Think of the argument that the removal of the statues of slave owners, colonisers and a variety of assorted racists, will erase history, thus allowing defenders of the history and culture (of which these statues remain powerful symbols) not to have to admit to, or defend, the fact that they are defending, or are sympathetic to, this history and culture. Similarly, AfriForum can pretend that their defence of the apartheid flag is not a defence of apartheid or a nostalgic yearning for a return to the past, but rather a defence of the sacred abstraction of freedom of expression.

The use of sacred abstractions to shield individuals against criticism and against the consequences of their actions is, of course, not limited to neo-conservatives. But the unsophisticated deployment of a caricatured version of freedom of expression does seem to find particular favour with people on the right of the political spectrum. The discussion on Twitter (by which I mean shouting) sparked by the decision to host David Icke on an eNCA programme, illustrates this point nicely. It is impossible to address all the misconceptions (as I see it) relied on by the defenders of the former reality TV personalitys decision to invite Icke, so I will touch on only a few here.

imagine you lived in Rwanda in early 1994 and you were asked whether you supported the appearance of Leon Mugesera, a politician who described Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination, on a local television programme. If you answered yes, you are a monster. If you answered no, you cannot claim that you believe in platforming all voices.

When Giulietta Talevi, Money editor at the Financial Mail, was criticised for appearing on the same programme (but in a different segment) as David Icke, she responded as follows: And, though I dont agree with the man at all, I totally agree with a platform that airs all voices, however abhorrent. And @GarethCliff is doing his job by interrogating them/us. While many people believe that they hold this view, it is my contention that none of them actually do.

This is really a self-evident point, which is why it is so strange that so many people still believe that they believe this. All that is required to substantiate my argument, is to identify a specific example of a person that you would never give a platform to. My example is the following: imagine you lived in Rwanda in early 1994 and you were asked whether you supported the appearance of Leon Mugesera, a politician who described Tutsis as cockroaches and called for their extermination, on a local television programme. If you answered yes, you are a monster. If you answered no, you cannot claim that you believe in platforming all voices.

But just to be safe, I provide another example. Would you support a decision by the former reality TV personality to interview Andre Slade about his belief expressed in an Equality Court case that the Bible classifies black people as animals? If you do, you believe debating whether some people are human is a meaningful activity and that would make you a monster. If you do not, then you cannot claim to believe that all people should be given a platform.

We will, of course, all draw the line differently when deciding on who should not be given a platform, but we all have a line beyond which we will not be prepared to go. But admitting this will require you to justify why you draw the line where you draw it. And if you have to justify your decision, it will, in turn, reveal something about your world view, ethical principles, and ideology which you might prefer to remain hidden, and you may know would be difficult to defend. (What is revealed is not your support for the person being given a platform, but what kinds of bigotry you are prepared to legitimise.) Better then for some rather to shout: free speech!

Giulietta Talevi also tweeted in her own defence: David Icke is clearly as mad as a balloon. And repugnant to boot. But you know what, its @GarethCliffs show and he can have who the fuck he pleases on it. This is the opposite view from the one expressed by critics of no-platforming, who argue that it infringes on freedom of expression if an institution or event (broadcaster, radio station, university, book festival, professional organisation) refuses to host a specific person or changes its mind and disinvites a person. Curiously, some defenders of free expression support both positions, which does not appear to be coherent.

Strictly speaking, the claim made by Giulietta Talevi is not correct, as the former reality TV personality is not free to have anyone he pleases on the show.

First, he is constrained by the brief given to him by the broadcaster hosting the show. If he strays from this brief, he will be fired.

Second, like any other broadcaster, eNCA has to adhere to its licencing conditions which constrains who could be invited.

The reality TV personality has probably calculated that there are enough viewers who are interested in spectacle and showboating as Jerry Springer showed so spectacularly and that the platforming of someone like Icke would boost ratings.

Third, the law of defamation and hate speech also constrains his choices.

Fourth, the host of a current affairs programme is supposed to be constrained by the basic rules of journalism, editorial judgment and ethics. Applying these rules would preclude the platforming of individuals merely for the purpose of reality television-like spectacle. (All these considerations are seemingly absent from the decision to invite Icke).

But potentially the most crucial constraint which an appeal to freedom of expression attempts to circumvent is the constraint imposed by the (not really free) marketplace. If your choices as programme host lead to severe criticism and protest, the inability to attract credible interviewees, and the withdrawal of advertising, your programme will be cancelled. The reality TV personality has probably calculated that there are enough viewers who are interested in spectacle and showboating as Jerry Springer showed so spectacularly and that the platforming of someone like Icke would boost ratings. (Which is why he will probably avoid inviting Andre Slade for a sit-down interview.)

Of course, the most astute way to minimise the impact of this constraint and to avoid accountability for ones journalistic choices is to invoke freedom of expression and pretend that the performance of freedom of expression (and not the content of the expression) is the only thing that matters.

This does not mean that freedom of expression concerns are necessarily absent from decisions on who to platform and who not. But the matter is slightly more complicated than the sloganeers imagine. Let me explain.

In some contexts, refusing to platform someone would raise serious freedom of expression concerns, while in other contexts it would not. If SABC news refused to platform someone because she is an opposition politician, or queer, or an atheist, or critical of the SABC, it would be a serious freedom of expression matter. This is because the SABC is the public broadcaster, has a statutory mandate to provide a diversity of views and inform and entertain the public, and is by far the most influential and widely consumed source of news in South Africa.

A claim that the suspension of an account by Facebook or Twitter will never raise freedom of expression concerns would therefore be difficult to sustain. But while the suspension of an account may in some circumstances limit the right to freedom of expression, this limitation may be justified by law or by other considerations.

A decision by SABC news not to platform a person for non-journalistic reasons would arguably limit the right of everyones freedom of expression, as it would deprive millions of South Africans of their freedom to receive potentially meaningful information. But this does not give individuals the unqualified right to be platformed on the SABC news, as the corporation also has a duty to exercise editorial discretion to meet its statutory obligations and the minimum journalistic standards. If it exercises this discretion badly, it would not normally implicate freedom of expression. In such a case people will rightly criticise the SABC news, but criticism should then rightly be focused on what really matters the actual editorial decision.

For similar reasons, private companies like Facebook and Twitter present a special problem. Although these companies are private, their platforms fulfil a quasi-public function in the modern age and decisions by these companies to block individual users may, in some instances, limit the rights of those users and the rights of others who will be deprived of their right to receive information. (To illustrate, to suspend Donald Trumps Twitter account will limit his freedom of expression and that of his followers in quite a fundamental manner.)

A claim that the suspension of an account by Facebook or Twitter will never raise freedom of expression concerns would therefore be difficult to sustain. But while the suspension of an account may in some circumstances limit the right to freedom of expression, this limitation may be justified by law or by other considerations.

The situation will be different when a university, a book festival, or your local pensioners current affairs club decides to no-platform a specific speaker. The impact of these decisions will be minimal on the condition that the speaker has access to other widely accessible platforms and it would therefore be rather difficult to argue that the refusal amounts to censorship. This does not mean that the decision of such an institution is not open to robust criticism. It just means that it should not be sufficient to cloak the criticism in the sacred abstractions of free speech; the criticism will actually have to engage with the question of why it is important that this particular speaker with these particular views should or should not be platformed by a specific institution.

So, the next time an individual defends the platforming of some or other bigot, conspiracy theorist or medical charlatan (to name but a few), be aware that this individual may invoke freedom of expression to avoid having to talk about why the views of the bigot, conspiracy theorist or medical charlatan, are valuable or worth discussing or debating. DM

Pierre De Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he serves as deputy dean and as the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance. He writes a regular blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which he attempts to mix one part righteous anger, one part cold legal reasoning and one part irreverence to help keep South Africans informed about Constitutional and other legal developments related to the democracy.

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ZAXX breaks year-long hiatus with help from Proximity and Musical Freedom on ‘Unforgetting’ – Dancing Astronaut

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by: Ross GoldenbergJul 23, 2020

Rewind to the summer season a half-decade ago, and ZAXX was riding the high from Alpha, his inaugural release on Music Freedom, his mentors label. With a handful of Musical Freedom appearances in the time since, the New York-bred talent has mainly focused on discovering his true form, making a move more towards the indie-electronic front. After finally receiving clearance for his two highly-coveted versions of Boys Like Girls The Great Escape and Snow Patrols Chasing Cars at the end of 2019, ZAXX is partnering back up with Tistos Musical Freedom and Proximity for his debut single of the year, Unforgetting.

Self-described as the most 80s-style influenced song that hes produced, ZAXX opens up on Unforgetting, designing an introspective synthwave-inspired aesthetic that fits graciously into the summers beginning decline. ZAXX says it took him three-years from the starting point of the single to cross the finish line and considering the first-class result, the wait was well worth it. The dance music godfather himself shared a message on his mentees anticipated return to his label:

Very excited to work with our friends over at Proximity to showcase the new Zaxx music to the world. We love the team over at Proximity who are just as passionate as I am about finding and showcasing great music. We wanted to work on something together for a long time and the Zaxx music is a great start. Zaxx is a super talented producer who has been releasing on Musical Freedom since 2015, its been great to see him evolve his sound into something super unique that we hope fans of both Musical Freedom and Proximity can equally connect to!

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