#Chatcontrol - one of the worst EU plans that is also being described as a surveillance monster - must be stopped! The draft law is facing huge opposition across Europe. Now, an analysis by the EU Parliament's Scientific Service comes to the conclusion that the law will even be counterproductive.
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Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •The US is a uniquely dangerous place to live, among wealthy nations. One in 24 Americans will die by accident - a 40% higher rate than Norway, the next most dangerous.
It's especially dangerous if you're already marginalized. As Singer writes, "whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power, or lack of it"
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Some accidents we try very hard to avoid. Others we accept as simply inevitable. Which kinds of accidents are which is not a matter of chance, it is driven by underlying power structures.
Back in the 1920s, when a person was killed by a car, people *rioted*.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Then the automobile industry began the process of normalizing traffic fatalities.
Core to their approach was an emphasis on human error. Accidents weren't due to systemic decisions (or corporate greed). It was all "human error". Pedestrians who didn't yield to cars were "jaywalkers" causing accidents.
The industry lobbied against restrictions like "speed governors" that would keep cars from going too fast and funded education campaigns to teach a new generation that roads were for cars.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •One particularly obnoxious manifestation of industry's focus on individual responsibility is Otto Nobetter. ("Ought to know better" - hilarious!)
Otto Nobetter was an education campaign designed by the industry group the National Council for Industrial Safety. It was formed largely because states started passing worker's compensation laws, so businesses suddenly had an incentive to protect their workers from injury and death.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Industry also tried to argue that some people are just "accident prone".
Psychologists, usually on the corporate payroll, conducted studies attempting to prove that people who got into accidents had something wrong with them: they lacked strong religious values, had trouble with authority, were divorcees or gamblers or had "a psychosexual need to court danger."
Of course this was all bunk, and yet another example of scientists cynically serving those in power. (See merchantsofdoubt.org/)
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of DoubtShauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •History Professor Bryant Simon says "what we call accidents are in some ways manufactured vulnerabilities".
He wrote a book about the 1991 Hamlet Fire, which killed 25 workers, mostly black women. Simon refuses to blame the "greedy owners" who violated OSHA regulations.
"Those people did not just end up in that plant that day.
Historical forces brought a particular kind of person to that plant, and the fact that no one cared about them didn’t just begin that day.”