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Paul Healey

@br00t4c If #Shell continues to pipe oil knowing full well there is no protection against the criminal acts of third parties, why isn’t it liable? Using that defence, it can pay dictators to extract the people’s oil knowing full well the monies are and will be used to imprison, torture, murder and purge any opposition to supporting dictatorships. #EcocideCrimes #liability #Ecocide #CorporateDictators #NoJusticeNoLaws #PetroChemicals

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Associated Press: Brazil’s Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user content. “The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/14/associated-press-brazils-supreme-court-justices-agree-to-make-social-media-companies-liable-for-user-content/

#brazil#latinamerica#Law
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Calishat

#legal #liability #SiliconValley #Brazil #SocialMedia

"The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations."

japantoday.com/category/world/

Japan TodayBrazil’s Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user contentThe majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations. Brazil's top court decided to rule on two different cases to reach an understanding on how…
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History May 31, 1889: The infamous Johnstown Flood. 2,209 people died when a dam holding back a private resort lake burst upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest U.S. disaster to date. Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati. It caused $17 million of damage (about $490 million in 2020 dollars).

Wealthy industrialists, like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick owned and patronized the resort. (Carnegie also owned Homestead Steel, and Frick was the manager in charge of the butchering of striking workers that occurred there in 1892). They had built cottages and a clubhouse and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and private mountain retreat. They had also lowered the dam to build a road across it and installed a fish screen in the spillway that tended to trap debris. Investigators believe these alterations contributed to the disaster. Yet none of the members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were found guilty of any crimes. Furthermore, survivors repeatedly lost court cases in their attempts to recover damages due to the club members’ wealth and expensive legal team. However, public outrage did prompt changes in American law leading to one of strict liability in future cases.

The flood has been depicted repeatedly in American culture. Bruce Springsteen references it in “Highway Patrolman.” Rudyard Kipling talked about it in his novel “Captains Courageous.” The Paul Newman film, “Slapshot” takes place in Johnstown. It is also referenced in episodes of Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and dozens of other poems, songs, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction.

The John Schultz house in Johnstown after the flood. Skewered by a huge tree uprooted by the flood, the house. By Unknown author - https://web.archive.org/web/20170805012341/http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90485452
#workingclass#LaborHistory#Johnstown
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BellingenNSW

Extreme heat - harm from fossil fuels
Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?

"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds"

"Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades."
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#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FossilFuels #liability #litigation #AttributionSci #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #harm #Australia

The Guardian · Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study findsBy Royce Kurmelovs
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smeg

So a fetus is a person when trying to deny women rights, but not when the hospital's wallet is on the line? It's obvious the true ideology here is about controlling women and nothing more.

Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person'
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/0

#abortion#womensrights#abortionishealthcare
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datum (n=1)

Not as full as the Devil's Dictionary, nonetheless Doctorow's Dictionary is accurate and useful:

The Limited Lliability Company: "a kind of immortal, artificial colony organism in which human beings serve as a kind of gut flora."

pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs

pluralistic.netPluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
#CoryDoctorow#LLC#liability
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