Too bad, sponsors—a company collects $1 million on kickstarter but doesn’t deliver on the product end.
•AT&T argues that net neutrality violates their First Amendment right to decide who it can transmit over the Internet and at what speed, the same way a paper gets to decide what news gets in.
•Uber says that as it doesn’t own its cars and isn’t the employer of the drivers, it’s not bound by disability-rights laws.
•The GOP has been talking more about economic inequality lately, but it’s still fine with tax cuts for millionaires.
•Digby points out that the Obama administration wants details of the US’ torture activities covered up (because it might make someone angry, and lead to attacks!) the White House doesn’t stop Dick Cheney or CIA officials from openly bragging about torture. More here.
•There’s also torture in South Sudan.
•I’ve discussed before the way some conservatives live to make the poor suffer. Although Kansas’ new policy—not allowing Kansans to access more than $25 in welfare benefits at a time, by ATM withdrawal—may be just a way to give the banks’ bottom line a juicing, I suppose. Either way it’s a horrible policy, based on the possibility that someone receiving welfare benefits may have cheated. This is what happens when you design programs on the assumption that if even one person abuses them, the policy is bad.
•Human Rights Watch reports on Ruth Evans, a soldier whose career was deep-sixed when she reported sexual assault.
•A lot of virgin olive oil isn’t that virgin.
•A battle between the big credit bureaus and multiple state attorney generals results in new rules on how the bureaus handle disputes.
•Bikers going at each other with guns? Not thugs and not a riot, according to the media. Ta-Nehisi Coates wonders why white people can’t follow Martin Luther King more?
