Daily Links #107: Texas school district threatens to suspend students who protest gun violence

• Thanks to this Texas school district, colleges may soon see “I got suspended for protesting against kids being shot in school” on applications they receive.
  (via @sarahemclaugh; retweet by @Popehat)

• The Pennsylvania district map saga continues: As predicted, Republicans are suing over the new, non-gerrymandered map released by the State Supreme Court, likely hoping to keep their advantage until after the midterms.

• Aurora, Illinois cop secretly installed surveillance cameras in his ex-wife’s home so that he could spy on her during and after their divorce. The city and police chief both want him fired. The arbitrator and police union argue a suspension is good enough. The only reason he’s not going to jail is because the ex-wife refused to press charges.
  (via @TimCushing; retweet by @Popehat)

• More than half of US states are taking it upon themselves to protect net neutrality.
  (via Techdirt)

• Germany’s speech laws continue to be a raging dumpster fire of censorial stupidity.

• Speaking of terrible laws, Swedish politicians want to set the prison penalty for copyright infringement on par with manslaughter.
  (via Privacy News Online)

• Finally, what’s more predictable: That Twitter would ban thousands of bot accounts, that this would impact the follower counts of far-Right tweeps in particular, or that they’d scream “censorship!” over it?

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