Interesting Links for 02-07-2020

[andrewducker]

Water firms discharged raw sewage into England's rivers 200,000 times in 2019

(tags:UK rivers pollution water )

England's privatised water firms paid £57bn in dividends since 1991 (Scottish Water is, of course, publicly owned)

(tags:UK water capitalism )

Lego joins hundreds of companies and pulls ads on Facebook over hate speech

(tags:abuse advertising Facebook )

The government's "rough sex" law doesn't actually change anything

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1278411380836708353.html
(tags:law sex murder bdsm uk )

Sweeping climate-crisis plan would bring US to zero emissions in 30 years

(tags:USA globalwarming thefuture politics )

A Former BNP Councillor to Become Mayor of Stoke on Trent

(tags:racism UK politics OhForFucksSake bnp )

Finland′s air force logo drops swastika

(tags:logo Finland Nazis history )

Comments

[thedivinegoat]

Welsh Water is non-profit too.

(My husband deals with a couple of water companies for work, and some of the stories he's brought home about them are horrendous)

[haggis]

The thread on the 'rough sex' law was helpful and also a relief because I was worried about further criminalisation of consensual BDSM practices. Increasing criminalisation makes life more dangerous for people to seek advice or medical help if there is a problem, more dangerous for people to provide the safety advice that would protect people and also puts people at risk of blackmail and abuse. And, as the Spanner case (R vs Brown), this stuff hits hardest against minorities such as LGBT people.

Privatised water firms

[dewline]

The whole idea ought to be tossed in the toxic trash bin.