Hacker News with Generative AI: Human Rights

'Alarming' rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds (theguardian.com)
China’s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country’s internet censorship regime in the central province of Henan, subjecting tens of millions of residents to even stricter controls on access to information than people in the rest of the country.
China, Internet Censorship, Human Rights, Technology
7 points by beardyw 38 days ago | 4 comments
Russia bans "undesirable" Amnesty International (politico.eu)
Russia announced Monday it would ban human rights NGO Amnesty International in the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on civil society groups opposing its war in Ukraine.
Russia, Human Rights, NGOs, International Relations, War
14 points by mdp2021 42 days ago | 0 comments
Fabian Schmidt speaks out for the first time since his detention (wgbh.org)
Fabian Schmidt, who is originally from Germany, made it clear that he’s proud to be in America, but said he’s still reeling from his unexpected two-month detention that he described as “dehumanizing.”
Immigration, Politics, Human Rights
6 points by casenmgreen 46 days ago | 3 comments
ADL Pushes Google to Reject Review of Israeli Human Rights Abuses (gizmodo.com)
The Anti-Defamation League is lobbying Alphabet, the parent company of Google, to vote down a shareholder proposal that would require the company to investigate whether its cloud services (specifically Project Nimbus, which is a contract with the Israeli government) are aiding human rights abuses in conflict zones (you know, like Gaza).
Human Rights, Google, Israel, Politics
10 points by bhouston 47 days ago | 0 comments
Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights (hrw.org)
Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Labor Rights, Gig Economy, Misclassification, Human Rights
152 points by Improvement 49 days ago | 93 comments
US Government considering suspending habeas corpus (bbc.com)
Donald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said.
US Law, Civil Liberties, Politics, Government, Human Rights
95 points by intunderflow 51 days ago | 31 comments
"Police state" search got censored in Italy (ycombinator.com)
In recent years, the Italian government has been applying laws "to ensure security" considered by many different methods to restrict the freedom of citizens, easily condemn at will people considered hostile (as with the new law that allows to arrest anyone who tests positive for substances in the table of illegal substances while driving in any case, without the person being actually altered or alterable) and in fact making Italy more and more a police state.
Italy, Censorship, Law Enforcement, Human Rights
28 points by richsnipe 54 days ago | 11 comments
More Than 5k People Are on a NY State Police Gang Database (thecity.nyc)
As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal authorities gang intelligence that could fuel the administration’s rapidly expanding, extrajudicial deportation machine.
Gang Databases, Law Enforcement, Immigration, Human Rights
3 points by geox 55 days ago | 0 comments
How Indian Colleges Casually Violate Human Rights (isomorphism.xyz)
The freedom of physical movement is the prototypical example of a fundamental human right.
Human Rights, India, Education, College
28 points by agnishom 56 days ago | 12 comments
Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center (nytimes.com)
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Politics, International Relations, War, Human Rights, Yemen
11 points by perihelions 58 days ago | 0 comments
Door knocks and DNA tests: How Trump adminis plans to keep tabs on migrant kids (apnews.com)
Desperate children and adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid
Politics, Immigration, Children, Human Rights
6 points by rolph 59 days ago | 0 comments
China's machinery of repression – how it crushes dissent around the world (icij.org)
Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders.
China, Human Rights, Repression, Politics, International Relations
11 points by felineflock 59 days ago | 0 comments
China deploys army of fake NGOs at UN to intimidate, silence critics (hongkongfp.com)
China is deploying a growing army of organisations masquerading as NGOs to monitor and intimidate rights activists at the UN, a new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium said on Monday.
China, NGOs, Human Rights, International Relations, United Nations
15 points by gscott 62 days ago | 0 comments
In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource (arstechnica.com)
Ironically, our present AI age has shone a bright spotlight on the immense value of human creativity as breakthroughs in technology threaten to undermine it.
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Human Rights, Technology
26 points by wizardforhire 66 days ago | 5 comments
How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent (citizenlab.ca)
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020.
Human Rights, Thailand, Censorship, Social Media, Politics
207 points by gnabgib 71 days ago | 182 comments
Law firms, universities and now civil society groups targets for punitive action (apnews.com)
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
Politics, Law, Civil Liberties, Human Rights
8 points by petethomas 74 days ago | 0 comments
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (text.npr.org)
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
Politics, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Human Rights, United States
38 points by thowaway7564902 75 days ago | 4 comments
State Terror (snyder.substack.com)
Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
Politics, Human Rights, Justice System
7 points by tastyface 76 days ago | 0 comments
State Terror (snyder.substack.com)
Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
Politics, Human Rights, Law, Government
23 points by NotInOurNames 76 days ago | 2 comments
Trump and Bukele Bond over Human Rights Abuses in Oval Office Meeting (rollingstone.com)
President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process.
Politics, Human Rights, El Salvador, United States
20 points by josefresco 76 days ago | 0 comments
We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid: Trump's Gulag Archipelago (nytimes.com)
Of all the lawless acts by the Trump administration in its first two and a half months, none are more frightening than its dumping of human beings who have not had their day in court into an infamous maximum-security prison in El Salvador — and then contending that no federal court has the authority to right these brazen wrongs.
Politics, Law, Immigration, Human Rights
16 points by mitchbob 82 days ago | 0 comments
Russian Authorities Returned Device with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed (citizenlab.ca)
This joint investigation with First Department, a legal assistance organization, found spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer accused of sending money to Ukraine after he was released from custody.
Cybersecurity, Surveillance, Russia, Human Rights
8 points by janandonly 82 days ago | 0 comments
Trump's Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights (propublica.org)
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.
Politics, Immigration, Human Rights, Government Oversight
11 points by hn_acker 83 days ago | 0 comments
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans (rollingstone.com)
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs.
El Salvador, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Politics, Human Rights
327 points by Avshalom 87 days ago | 193 comments
ICE Air: What It's Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant (propublica.org)
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.
Immigration, Aviation, Labor, Human Rights
10 points by Anon84 88 days ago | 0 comments
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived (nytimes.com)
“It’s the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction. In the video, which Khalil’s wife recorded, she asks for the names of the men in plainclothes who handcuffed her husband.
Police Brutality, Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Journalism
40 points by tastyface 89 days ago | 7 comments
In Alien Enemies Case, Many with Open Asylum Claims Allegedly Removed (lawfaremedia.org)
The Trump administration is wrongfully removing individuals with open asylum cases to an El Salvador mega-prison for terrorists.
Immigration, Law, Human Rights, Politics, Trump Administration
6 points by hn_acker 89 days ago | 0 comments
The Lawless Evil of Denying Due Process (techdirt.com)
The U.S. government just demonstrated exactly why due process matters. In what should be a shocking admission, the Trump administration revealed in court that it had made a bit of an oopsie (they call it an “administrative error”) — one that resulted in trafficking a Maryland father with protected legal status to a Salvadoran prison. Their response to this horrific mistake? Not contrition or attempts to fix it, but rather an argument that U.S.
Politics, Law, Human Rights
11 points by hn_acker 90 days ago | 1 comments
US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back (independent.co.uk)
The Trump administration accidentally sent a Salvadorian immigrant to a notorious Salvadorian prison and says it can’t do anything to get him back.
Immigration, International Relations, Government, Legal Issues, Human Rights
224 points by croes 91 days ago | 146 comments
'You're His Property': How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm (nytimes.com)
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
Prison Labor, Corruption, Mississippi, Law Enforcement, Human Rights
34 points by whack 94 days ago | 5 comments