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[ad_1] Rupert Lowe, the Restore Britain leader who is much applauded among sections of the American right, has just offered to lay down his arms and end the civil war on the British right. Or so he would have us believe. In a 12-minute video directed to Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage, Lowe invited his ex-boss to come together, provided his former colleagues accepted a seemingly reasonable-sounding series of policy demands on immigration, demographic change, criminal justice, economic self-sufficiency, and the composition of a future government. What Lowe refused to spell out, however, was exactly what Restore would do in…

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[ad_1] Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader. Operation Motorman Mural in Derry, on Rossville Street, photographed in 2013. (Suzanne Mischyshyn / Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0) By Anne CadwalladerDeclassified UK The very highest levels of the British government secretly exerted pressure on the BBC to censor a film about the army killing an unarmed child in 1972. Official documents, recently discovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, also show the British Army was aware, shortly after the killing in Derry, that the boy had…

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[ad_1] The Metaverse may have flopped, but Meta is still on trial for supposedly altering reality. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram “has profoundly altered the psychological and social realities of a generation of young Americans” by designing its products “to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare youth and teens,” four states say. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. The first thing you might think upon hearing that Meta is on trial today for purportedly harming kids’ mental health is “Wait, didn’t we…

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[ad_1] From Judge Loretta Preska (S.D.N.Y.) in yesterday’s Giuffre v. Maxwell: On March 18, 2016, the late Judge Sweet issued a protective order … barring Plaintiff Virginia Giuffre, Defendant Ghislaine Maxwell, and their attorneys from sharing confidential discovery information produced as part of this case with any third party, including the Government. The Protective Order allowed the parties’ attorneys, by designating a document as confidential, to represent that the document’s contents implicated one or both of the parties’ privacy interests and thus keep the document under seal unless the opposing party objected. The parties were thereafter permitted to file dozens…

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