Daily Links: 09/20/17 – Congress about to wreck online free speech

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• Techdirt (and I) would like to remind you that Congress is close to passing an “anti-sex-trafficking” bill that would do nothing to actually stop sex-trafficking and would instead stifle free speech on virtually every website that exists.

• In case you were wondering, the US sex offender registry is still a horribly broken and cruelly unjust system that needlessly wrecks lives.
  (via @Popehat)

• Trump administration rejects an inconvenient study that shows refugees bring in more in taxes than they cost.
  (via @donttrythis)

• I don’t see why police charged these evangelical school athletes with felonies for kidnapping, beating and raping a younger student. After all, the school administration already punished them with community service and an eight-page essay.

• Study finds racist hiring discrimination hasn’t changed since 1989.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• Illinois court reminds police that flag-burning is absolutely legal. (I’d also remind them it’s just a fucking colored cloth.)

• Finally, Miami-Dade County has a novel approach to helping with the post-Irma cleanup: ticketing hundreds of property owners for code violations on their hurricane-wrecked properties.
  (via @Popehat)

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