Daily Links: 09/11/17 – America’s self-inflicted decline

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Finally got my studio-quality reference speakers, so excuse the sparse blogging whilst I take ’em for a spin. (Right after I figure out how to connect everything.) Have a wall o’ links instead.

• Today is the 16th anniversary of 9/11. Here’s how it triggered the self-inflicted decline of civil liberties and freedom in the US. ^[pictured]
  (via @ggreenwald)

• Photographic evidence of the US- and UK-backed Saudi war crimes that have created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
  (via @religionnews)

• Russia threatens Canada over the latter’s “underground railroad” for gays fleeing persecution and death in Chechnya, reaffirms stance against basic human rights.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• UC Berkeley campus cops crack down on scourge of unlicensed hot dog vendors, specifically by stealing seizing a vendor’s cash and debit card. Three silver linings: California’s recently amended asset forfeiture laws will require a conviction before police can keep the money; a GoFundMe for the vendor has already raised nearly $40,000, and a petition to fire the asshole cop now has already exceeded 18,000 signatures (both numbers as of this writing).
  (via @Popehat)

• Canadian civil liberties groups launch constitutional challenge against laws permitting extended solitary confinement.
  (via @cancivlib)

• Law professor warns Congress’s renewed anti-sex trafficking proposals would severely undermine the Internet’s free speech protections (and wouldn’t actually help sex-trafficking victims).
  (via @EFF; RT: @Popehat)

• Tesla remotely extended the range of some of their cars in Florida with a free over-the-air update. Here’s why that’s troubling.

• Canadian Muslim group blames “Jewish controlled media” for criticism of female genital mutilation.

• Finally, neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer’s game of domain hopscotch continues, now kicked out by fifth hosting company.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

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