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Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case ( www.bangkokpost.com )
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
Piracy related communities removal
I don't know the specifics behind why the communities were (re-)removed but the reasons given in the modlog seem vague enough to apply to anyone linking to Google or YouTube as they reference or indirectly link to piracy:...
The straight pride flag looks gay AF ( leminal.space )
'Turn around immediately': Taiwan warns off Chinese coast guard boats again as tensions simmer ( www.reuters.com )
Kamala Harris Calls For Marijuana To Be Rescheduled 'As Quickly As Possible' ( www.huffpost.com )
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday called on the federal government to move “as quickly as possible” to change the way it officially classifies marijuana, saying that “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”...
Russia forces Ukrainians in occupied territories to take its passports – and fight in its army ( apnews.com )
He and his parents were among the last in their village to take a Russian passport, but the pressure was becoming unbearable....
Missouri law bars divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence ( www.theguardian.com )
The statute, which can lead to reproductive coercion in a state that has banned abortion, has recently gained nationwide attention...
It wasn't just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? ( forward.com )
The most famous forms of Holocaust denial and revisionism tend to focus on Jews, casting doubt, for example, on how many were exterminated in the camps. But denying the impact the Nazis had on the other groups they targeted, including queer and trans people, disabled people and Romani people, is still Holocaust denial. Maybe...
The Gaza conflict’s forgotten shipping crew held hostage in the Red Sea ( www.cnn.com )
A Houthi-owned helicopter hijacked the Galaxy Leader cargo ship on November 19 in the Red Sea, as rebel gunmen laid siege to the vessel and took the ship’s crew of 17 Filipinos, two Bulgarians, three Ukrainians, two Mexicans and a Romanian hostage....
Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more ( apnews.com )
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
Israel again massacres Palestinian civilians who had gathered to obtain humanitarian aid in Gaza ( euromedmonitor.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17439723...
Kremlin says Putin didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons, U.S. took him out of context ( www.reuters.com )
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin had merely been answering a journalist's questions on the subject and restating the already well known circumstances in which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons....
Exclusive: Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China ( www.reuters.com )
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation....
Former Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin forming investor group to buy TikTok ( www.politico.com )
Report claims Yemen's Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis ( apnews.com )
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House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate ( www.cnbc.com )
China could use TikTok to influence US elections, spy chief says ( www.theguardian.com )
The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill giving Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to sell that part of its business...
Looking for a free speech instance
I am looking to change my instance since many defederation and censorship decisions on lemmy.world....