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anonymous

US election 2020: Why it can be hard to vote in the US - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...election-us-2020-54240651

voting united+states voter+suppression person+freedoms elections

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  • anonymous on 01 Feb 21
     
    This site gives a brief description of voter suppression within the Untied States. It details what voter suppression entails, such as roll purges, prison voting bans, ID laws, etc.
quintin2133597

The Environmental Crisis in the Philippines - 1 views

www.culturalsurvival.org/...vironmental-crisis-philippines

Philippines Environment Law

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  • quintin2133597 on 01 Feb 21
     
    The article talks about how the indigenous people of the Philippines have been fighting for their land ownership since the spike of encroaching mining companies trying to take their land away. The article also talks about how the state should own the land and mineral wealth not the indigenous people themselves.
bre2162053

Defunding police: What it means and what it could look like - CNN - 5 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

government police defunding personal+freedoms

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  • bre2162053 on 09 Sep 20
     
    Defunding the Police Departments does not mean disbanding law enforcement. Excess funds can be distributed to other services (education, healthcare, housing, ect.)
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  • maryum99 on 10 Sep 20
     
    Defunding the police and distributing that money to further establish other parts of the government can honestly change so much and for the better as well.
  • matthewvazquez on 29 Jan 21
     
    this article gives a better understanding to what "defund the police" really means. By putting funds into other areas that need it, there can be a lot of good done in America.
  • sav2133255 on 01 Feb 21
     
    this article is very helpful in the way that most people think that defunding the police means disbandment when really it is just taking the extra funds and putting in other necessary services.
  • jaredjimenez09 on 01 Feb 21
     
    Great article to explain the common misconceptions on what it means to defund the police. The positive to this is the benefits other sectors of the government would have such as education.
  • edv2140870 on 01 Feb 21
     
    I agree it does not mean to get rid of the police. but overly funding a facility while ignoring schools and healthcare systems is not okay either.
  • cel2141812 on 01 Feb 21
     
    This is a good, informative article. Other organizations need more funding, and I believe that funding them is only fair.
  • quintin2133597 on 01 Feb 21
     
    This article really shows what it looks when the community doesn't feel safe and how the people are moving to make it safe and put money somewhere else.
  • lauren_ciadella on 02 Feb 21
     
    I'm glad that this article gives the information this country needs when talking about defunding the police. Many interpret that in the wrong way which has divided our country even more.
ben2044259

child abuse - 1 views

www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/whatiscan.pdf#page=2&view=How Is Child Abuse and Neglect Defined in Federal Law?

personal+freedoms rights freedom personal privacy

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  • ben2044259 on 29 Jan 17
     
    tell a lot about abuse and the types and how to Recognizing Signs of Abuse and Neglect . THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON WELL-BEING
lyn2170163

police reputation crisis - 3 views

cops.usdoj.gov/...reputation_crisis.asp

personal+freedoms police+brutality cops reputation

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  • lyn2170163 on 03 Sep 19
     
    Negative news coverage, social media reports, and viral videos of police interaction, which has a negative impact on how law enforcement is viewed. Not every report is the cop not doing his/her job correctly. The news is not always truthful. Police are not appreciated for their dangerous job.
  • robbyloz on 03 Sep 19
     
    Respectfully, I think a website named "cops" talking about police may have a little bias supporting one side of the argument. It's really important to remember this because this concept may invalidate a paper in the future!
  • emm2144821 on 03 Sep 19
     
    I agree with the article and your stance on this. Police officers definitely receive a lot more flack than they deserve for simply doing their jobs.
emm2144821

Police Brutality - 1 views

www.citizenscount.org/...police-brutality

personal+freedoms social brutality

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  • emm2144821 on 03 Sep 19
     
    This article shares examples of somewhat recent police brutality cases in New Hampshire and how local, state, and federal laws are being enforced to stop it. It also states ways the state can help, such as involving civilians.
hei2054360

Child Labor Discussion - 1 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC6198592

Personal+Freedoms child+labor education

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  • hei2054360 on 07 Sep 20
     
    This article gives an overview of child labor laws, historical background, and why this topic is one that is not easy to solve. For families who struggle to make ends meet, it is necessary to have everyone contribute. However, this keeps the children from being able to focus on education and have an opportunity to socialize and grow, possibly ending the cycle for that family of never being able to get ahead.
ash2176825

Illegal deforestation in Brazil - 1 views

www.sciencemag.org/...il-soars-amid-climate-impunity

Climate deforestation habitat Amazon Climate+change

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  • ash2176825 on 05 Sep 20
     
    Today deforestation is a major problem related to climate & in this article is discusses that deforestation has been on the rise since 2013 in Brazil, destroying the rainforests. This year it has gone up drastically due to their new president, who is deciding to loosen law enforcement for deforestation, & develop the Amazon, which is a very big problem.
alexisgarcia28

White males in America have 'very few rights', says US Politician - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...or-sara-thompson-a9167981.html

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  • alexisgarcia28 on 08 Sep 20
     
    A Tennessee politician made some racist and homophobic remarks during a rant at a county commission meeting. It was in regards to a woman who brought up that we should have stricter gun laws
sie2143733

How Far Does the Supreme Court's Ruling Go to Protect LGBTQ Rights? | PBS NewsHour | PB... - 1 views

az.pbslearningmedia.org/...pbs-newshour

personal+freedoms Rights privacy

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  • sie2143733 on 07 Sep 21
     
    LGBTQ rights across the country are now under the Civil Rights Law.
  • jhoaglen5 on 08 Sep 21
     
    As they should be.
  • nolanstrom on 08 Sep 21
     
    Everyone deserves the same rights, nobody is above anyone else.
smurphy6600

Health Net lawsuit reveals the financial engine of drug rehab industry - 0 views

www.azcentral.com/...907734001

personal+freedoms healthcare narcotics social+healthcare opioid+crisis

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  • The only "Obamacare" health insurer in metro Phoenix and Pima County is ensnared in a legal dispute with several addiction treatment centers over the cost of care amid an Arizona opioid epidemic that is taking an average of two lives each day. 
  • Maricopa County Superior Court lawsuit
  • widespread fraud among Arizona and California drug rehab centers in 2015 and 2016, when it alleges"teams of brokers" recruited out-of-state clients to fraudulently obtain insurance policies and to seek treatment in Arizona.
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  •  residential “sober homes”
  • headaches for local government officials as they try to determine how to manage the unregulated industry.
  • Prescott, which once claimed more than 100 sober homes, has adopted regulations to provide more oversight of them.
  • Federal and state prosecutors have aggressively pursued cases in Florida and California in connection with fraudulent activities such as patient brokering.
  • There have been no criminal cases filed in Arizona, however. 
  • Six of the rehab facilities that accuse Health Net of improperly withholding payments are in Prescott: Chapter 5 Counseling, Prescott House, Compass Recovery Center, Clean Adventures of Sober Living, Decision Point Center and Carleton Recovery Centers.
  • Three others, T R U Recovery Solutions, North Ridge Counseling and Desert Cove Recovery, list Scottsdale addresses. 
  • The rehab facilities allege that Health Net improperly withheld payments to virtually every rehab center in Arizona and southern California beginning in January 2016. Health Net halted the payments as part of an investigative audit that demanded each center provide detailed records such as proof of patients' residency and assurances that patients did not receive incentives to sign up for rehab. 
  • Health Net said in court documents that claims filed by rehab centers in Arizona soared because of widespread fraud
  • Health Net's PPO plans paid $2.4 million to all Arizona rehab centers in 2014. Those payments soared to $47.4 million in 2015
  • Those plans paid more for rehab care that year than all other types of care in Arizona, including typically expensive medical care such as cancer, heart disease and child births, according to the insurer’s counterclaim.
  • Here’s how the fraud worked, the insurer said in its counterclaim:Brokers would scout out people in 12-step programs, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, homeless shelters and jails, then refer these clients to the “highest-bidding clinic.”Clinics that were not part of the insurer’s network paid clients’ insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs such as deductibles and co-payments.The result was that people secured Health Net coverage “arranged and bought for them by financially-interested providers for one purpose only: to obtain coverage for the limited time needed to rack up millions of dollars in substance abuse treatment.” Some clinics misrepresented the home addresses of patients, many of whom lived out of state. 
  • “a sophisticated fraud involving the fraudulent enrollment of non-Arizona residents,” who signed up for Arizona insurance policies. 
  • misrepresenting their home address
  • Clean Adventures staff member told him to list the rehab facility's address on his insurance application.
  • put him in contact with an insurance agent who suggested using Clean Adventures' address on his insurance application
  • The insurer named 10 other examples of people who lived in California, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee and Wisconsin but represented that they lived in Prescott or Scottsdale.
  • The insurer also said the rehab centers engaged in fraudulent billing, charging for services that were not medically necessary or in amounts that exceeded what the plan allowed.
  • A 2008 law called the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act requires insurance plans to provide equitable coverage for substance abuse and addiction treatment. The Affordable Care Act also requires health insurance plans cover essential health benefits, including behavioral health services, and it forbids insurers from denying coverage to individuals based on existing medical conditions. 
  • The unintended consequence was (some) addiction treatments centers began taking advantage of that and over-billing," said Angie Geren, executive director of Addiction Haven, a grassroots and advocacy organization focusing on addiction issues. 
  • House Bill 2333
  • curb the practice of paying referral fees to brokers who steer patients to rehab centers.
  • bill never made it out of committee.
  • Florida
  • "The scam starts with deceptive advertising at the beginning," Aronberg said. "You are lured down to sunny Florida with a free plane ticket, which is illegal. You are given illegal benefits to keep you there."
  • patients often find themselves booted from treatment when their insurance benefits run out.
  • incentive for people to relapse so they can obtain another round of coverage.
  • Sober Home Task Force targeting the practice of buying and selling patients battling addiction
  • Johnson said rehab centers that provide legitimate services are being harmed as insurance companies scrutinize payments and bad actors poach patients away. 
  • ken.alltucker@arizonarepublic.com
smurphy6600

The Ethics (or not) of Massive Government Surveillance - 0 views

cs.stanford.edu/...ethics.html

personal+freedoms government+ethics social+technology tech+surveillance

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  • Prominent examples of surveillance include surveillance cameras, wiretaps, GPS tracking, and internet surveillance.
  • expression of control
  • profound impact with regards to the ethics of placing individual under surveillance
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  • close surveillance is much more intrusive than it has been in the past.
  • Constitution protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures
  • citizens have not been given the same protection with regards to electronic surveillance
  • "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear."
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      This statement has an Orwellian tone to it to indicate the tone of the article to the reader as cautious, paranoid even, and fearful
  • as most people are law-abiding citizens, most ostensibly will not be targeted for surveillance and it will not impact their lives,
  • safer through the elimination of criminals.
  • the government already has the ability to track a known target's movements to a reasonable degree, and has easy access to information such as one's purchasing habits, online activities, phone conversations, and mail.
  • if the individual has been treated unfairly and procedures violated, are there appropriate means of redress? Are there means for discovering violations and penalties to encourage responsible surveillant behavior
  • allowing surreptitious surveillance of one form, even limited in scope and for a particular contingency, encourages government to expand such surveillance programs in the future
  • the danger of a "slippery slope" scenario cannot be dismissed as paranoia
  • British police are now pushing for the DNA collection of children who "exhibit behavior indicating they may become criminals in later life"
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      This opens a door for discriminatory profiling from government agencies and educators who report the behavior
  • M.I.T. professor Gary Marx, who argued that before implementing surveillance we should evaluate the proposed methods by asking a number of questions, which we enumerate below:
  • does the technique cross a personal boundary without permission (
  • are individuals aware that personal information is being collected, who seeks it and why?
  • consent
    • smurphy6600
      smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
       
      The issue seems to be that consumers using the technology our government tracks aren't aware of what they are consenting to due to the long and overly-articulated terms and conditions presented to them in a purposefully confusing manner in order to gain access to their data
  • human review of machine generated results
  • With the expansion of surveillance, such abuses could become more numerous and more egregious as the amount of personal data collected increases.
  • security of the data be adequately protected?
  • are the goals of the data collection legitimate?
  • In general, we feel that surveillance can be ethical, but that there have to exist reasonable, publicly accessible records and accountability for those approving and performing the surveillance in question.
  • smurphy6600 on 06 Sep 21
     
    The website offers links to various sources of information on the collection and distribution of surveilled data from government agencies in an attempt to inform its readers and covers the paranoia tinted tone of those who find government surveillance in todays society to be too close to "Big Brother" methods and presents an argument for their point of view through the methods of MIT professor Gary Marx. The argument is presented in a series of questions on the ethical stance of what the government surveils, what the surveillance consists of as well as the consequences of any action taken as a result of surveillance and the reality that American citizens never consented to the constant surveillance of their personal lives. The position of inclination towards complacency is concisely summed with a strong amount of surveillance being presented by the double edged statement of "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.".
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