Australia just used police to move "close contacts" into "internment camps". Any wrong move inside would get punished by a $5000 fine.
> Hayley Hodgson [...] was ordered to go to the facility after a friend of hers tested positive for the virus and she was identified as a “close contact” by the number plate on her scooter.
> spent 14 days at the Howard Springs mandatory Covid-19 quarantine facility
> "Police officers blocked my driveway. ’What’s going on, are you guys testing me for Covid? What’s happening?’ They said, ‘No, you’re getting taken away. And you have no choice. You’re going to Howard Springs. You either come with us now, and we’ll put you in the back of the divvy van. Or you can have a choice to get a Covid cab.’
> they were even threatening me that if I was to do this again, ‘We will extend your time in here.’”
> Ms Hodgson said she told police “I don’t consent to this”, and asked why she couldn’t “just self-isolate at home”. Police responded ‘We’ve just been told from higher up where to take you. And that’s all that there is,’”.
> She was told to pack her bags and that she would be released when she tested negative. During her two-week stay she was tested three times, and each time tested negative.
> The video includes footage filmed by Ms Hodgson during her stay as she argues with a police officer at the facility, who reprimands her for leaving her cabin without a mask and threatens her with a $5000 fine.
> “I’m gonna give you a warning, yeah?” he says to her as she sits on the balcony. “It’s an official warning that you have to stay on your balcony and obey the rules while you’re here.” When she argues with the officer that the rules don’t make sense, he replies that “it doesn’t have to make sense”. [...] “Highly infectious when all of us people are negative?” she asks. “So far. The risk is still very high,” he says.
> She said at one point when she was distressed and asking to be let out of her room to go for a walk or a run, facility staff instead offered her Valium to calm down.
> Ms Hodgson said as a result of her two-week stay she had lost her casual retail job. “They compensated me $1500 for the two weeks, and that was all,” she said. “Now I’m currently unemployed because of this situation”
And that's a good thing. We're taking back journalism from corporate media.
The story exists when somebody looks into it. UnHeard, which is a YouTube channel with 500k followers, found out about this woman because of the viral social media posts, and interviewed her.
What other platform would you prefer to see it on?
> The man had been staying at the Intercontinental, in the centre of Perth, until yesterday afternoon before three officers, dressed in Hazmat suits removed him from his room.
That's someone getting deported and has nothing to do with the claims that people were being forcibly removed into quarantine zones. This just didn't happen.
Their site is still broken, months later. Pinching to zoom in progressively covers the content on the page.
Kinda wild to think they haven't fixed it yet. On mobile you cannot zoom in to view their images.
Maybe the site is vibe coded and nobody at Qwen actually knows how to fix it..
Another astonishing UX fail was (still is) on Xiaomi's page[1] - where they try, and successfully fail, to showcase a video editor implemented by their model.
They embed a screen capture hosted on a Chinese hosting site BiliBili, too bad the video is 360p pixel soup.
To be able to change the resolution you are required to:
- know to use desktop view in the browser to make the resolution button show
- know Chinese to understand which button is "resolution" and that you need to login to switch resolution
- have and account with the video hoster or be willing to register
I would hardly call what the US does as a fix considering it still has pretty poor crime rates compared to it's peers.
The police and courts rely on high crime rates and court costs to fund themselves and get bonuses. Actually lowering crime would mean downsizing and lower wages. Thats why cops in places that lowered the penalties for low level theft and drug crimes refuse to enforce any of those laws at all in protest, their easy money source shrinks and is a budget cut to their extortion racket.
Sorry-- I did not mean to imply that the USA has fixed their crime problem.
I was making the point that there are countries that used to have a lot less crime, which reduces the demand for policing. Now they have more crime. Problem solved.
According to the gallows that were constructed for Mike Pence.
I think the burden of proof is more the other way around, as in, someone needs to prove that there was a line of people chomping at the bit to get the VP spot. I don’t even think right-leaning media made those kinds of claims at the time.
I didn’t really see the Jon Husteds and Ron DeSantises of the world making appeals to become VP, even though being a VP for the oldest president-elect of all time in their second term gives you a solid coin flip of becoming president in 4 years or less.
To be able to push back you should know the law requirements for hotels in that jurisdiction, so they can't gaslighting you with fake "it's for police" reasons.
I can talk about Italy because I've researched it.
The first step should be to show them the Privacy Authority press release[1] - "No to preservation of guest ID copies".
You should be prepared to be refused check-in if they're stubborn and feel like you "cause problems". The protection you have is that public service (hotel) is forbidden to refuse service by law[2][3], fine is €516 up to €3098.
If it happens you should call police to verbalise and apply the fine. Refusal by police (Rifiuto di atti d'ufficio) is criminal offence and punishable with imprisonment 6mo - 2yr [4].
You should present ID to allow identification. The host must insert, by law at most 24hrs after check-in [5], client data into police portal, like name, DOB, nationality etc.
Everything else is extra and by GDPR you should be informed of any data processing, basis of processing, duration of processing, and your rights.
You can write Garante della Privacy to signal violations of GDPR if you feel it's warranted. I know they're happy to investigate and apply big fines to larger companies, not sure about how they handle smaller companies, like hotels.
[2] - Art. 187 of Regulation of execution of TULPS (public security law) - Public service [hotel,restaurant,bar] owners may not, without a legitimate reason, refuse to provide the services of their business to anyone who requests them and pays the price.https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:regio.d...
> The host must insert, by law at check-in time and not later(!), client data into police portal, like name, DOB, nationality etc.
> Everything else is extra and by GDPR you should be informed of any data processing, basis of processing, duration of processing, and your rights.
It's basically common sense yet they still insist they have to copy the document "for the police". Almost as if they are specifically sourcing these copies for someone.
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