Gizmodo: AI This Week: Zoom's Big TOS Disaster https://gizmodo.com/ai-this-week-zooms-big-tos-disaster-1850715166 #drafttheriseofaibotsexploringthefutureofartificialintelligenceandrobotics #existentialriskfromartificialgeneralintelligence #applicationsofartificialintelligence #philosophyofartificialintelligence #artificialgeneralintelligence #computationalneuroscience #artificialintelligence #katharinetrendacosta #emergingtechnologies #sarahmeyerswest #universalmusic #publiccitizen #tedkaczynski

Tying health insurance to employment is class warfare.
-- Public Citizen (@public_citizen)

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'“What’s on their ledger in terms of harm, there’s nothing like it in human history,” said David Arkush, the director of the climate program at consumer advocacy group #PublicCitizen and one of the paper’s authors.'

#ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/22/big-oil-companies-homicide-harvard-environmental-law-review?CMP=share_btn_tw

Ars Technica: Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices after years of outrage https://arstechnica.com/?p=1921106 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #Pharmaceuticalindustry #PublicCitizen #drugpricing #drugprices #diabetes #elililly #Science #Humalog #insulin #$35cap

Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices after years of outrage - Enlarge / Advocates with T1Internationals New York, New Jersey, and Con... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1921106 #pharmaceuticalindustry #publiccitizen #drugpricing #drugprices #diabetes #elililly #science #humalog #insulin #$35cap

Former President Jimmy Carter has called the Citizens United decision an “erroneous ruling” and “the most stupid decision the Supreme Court ever made” that “violates the essence” of our democracy and represents “the biggest change in America” since he was elected in 1976.

Please join me and #PublicCitizen by signing this petition to say you agree with former President Carter that Citizens United was wrong and must be overturned.

https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/jimmy-carter-is-right-that-citizens-united-is-wrong

#Petition #CitizensUnited

August 2022 report from #progressive #consumerrights advocacy group #PublicCitizen, Truth Social was found to shadowban #liberal and #progressive users that disagree with the site's narrative, as well as a swathe of other content, including some #conservative content. #TruthSocial has #bannedcontent mentioning #abortion and the #January6hearings.[89][90][86]

The congressional January 6th Committee is wrapping up its groundbreaking work and will soon ask the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute individuals based on its extensive investigation.

via #PublicCitizen

https://publiccitizen.salsalabs.org/january-6th-committee-should-ask-doj-to-prosecute-donald-trump

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#CorporateProsecutions Reach Record Low Under Biden

Only 90 corporations either pled guilty or were found guilty of federal crimes in 2021, despite ostensible policy shifts by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) toward tougher enforcement.

https://www.citizen.org/news/report-corporate-prosecutions-reach-record-low-under-biden/

Pfizer’s Power
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In February, Pfizer was accused of “bullying” governments in COVID vaccine negotiations in a groundbreaking story by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. A government official at the time noted, “Five years in the future when these confidentiality agreements are over you will learn what really happened in these negotiations.”...
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/10/15/bugs-in-our-pockets/
https://mkus3lurbh3lbztg254fzode-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Pfizer-power-Oct-19-final-1.pdf
#Pfizer #COVID_19 #publiccitizen

Fracaso: NAFTA’s Disproportionate Damage to #USofA Latino and Mexican Working People

Neither Neoliberal Business-As-Usual Trade Policy nor Trump’s Economic Nationalism Is the Way Forward for NAFTA 2.0

A Joint Report by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

https://www.citizen.org/our-work/globalization-and-trade/fracaso-nafta%e2%80%99s-disproportionate-damage-us-latinos-and-mexicans

via #PublicCitizen