Fire Meg

Posted by bordalix Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:00 GMT

Isn't capitalism, democracy and freedom of speech great? A eBay user (and minor stockholder), unhappy with the performance of the company, has issued an online petition for the removal of Meg Whitman as eBay CEO.

The 3 main reasons for this petition are:

  1. the lack of focus: eBay is more concerned in merging technologies (like Skype) than to bet on evolving the online auction sector;
  2. eBay and Paypal refuse to address fraud issues and the concerns of the user base;
  3. the existence of several technical issues that result in slow and erroneous searches, portions of the site not functioning properly, etc.

Is this a good idea? Will it result in anything? I sincerely don't know, but I like it, is a form of active citizenship, and we all should be active citizens. After all, that's why we live in a democracy, right?

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Forget the Bill of Rights

Posted by bordalix Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:17:00 GMT

Imagine a country where torture is banned, but the president can define what torture is at his own will; A country where the president could imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant; A country that suspends the writ of habeas corpus; A country where those who may have engaged in torture are immunized retroactively.

Stop imagining. That country exists, and I'm not talking about North Corea. Today, the US Senate approved President Bush's detainee legislation, so all the above statements are now part of the law in the US. But lets dig on this subject a little more.

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