uh this is the group that that uh compelled uh through science and through uh legal action compelled the Bush Administration not only to designate the polar bear uh as a threatened species that must be protected uh from an Extinction threat but the ex threat that the administration was compelled to
And the interim government is trying to get control over the militia's. And they've taken legal action . And, in fact, the police shot one of the militia leaders recently-- and under questionable or-- according to the police he shot himself twice in the chest,
And so we perhaps foolishly thought we could solve this problem or perhaps we could at least come about it; and we did so soon after we started this project, soon after Viacom launched its legal action against YouTube. Actually, this was incredibly motivating for us because Viacom's claim was--and you'll have to excuse me if I don't get the nuance of it right--but Viacom's claim was, you know,
crackdown a disproportionate amount of u their own IT cell sort of like swarms you and bullies you there are legal cases uh there are all manners of political action uh and legal action that come in. So I think the question is not so much about um whether in a uh
So I made that a part of what I did, and I started covering fatherhood a lot more. One is that when we took this legal action against the policy, filing a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which
I do not even remember what I said. But kids remember everything. I feel a lot of pressure because of that. Some people ask me why I do not take any legal action against false accusations. They believe false rumors are spread because I do not take any action. My mentor told me that I am like a parent raising a child.
for archiving an investigation that can be applied to open-source investigations. And we've been focusing initially with that on a collaboration with an organization called the Global Legal Action Network to develop this process. And we have been testing it out on Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, looking at these incidents and using these new processes.
But we don't have the tools to do that so systematically. So what's actually worked out really strange with this whole case of the litigation is through legal action we created an obligation,
And yet they absolutely controlled prisons for years. For a while, they were taken out with some legal action , but they're back up, strong as they've ever been. And the reason they were able to do that is because they were so good at violence.
Robert: I, you may know something I don't know. And in fact, you see companies doing similar things where they take very aggressive legal action . But at the same time signal the they're willing
Hayes never spoke to the workers there, only to the boss, who spoke to him in English while commanding the workers in Spanish. So the point of this system of production was not just to find cheaper, but to avoid legal action . This is tort-liable work outsourced to a network of employees to act as intermediaries.
So I made that a part of what I did, and I started covering fatherhood a lot more. But I said earlier, there are two things I want you to know about how I took on this legal action .
Lee: it's changed how they operate, and maybe for the better. Maybe not, I'm not sure, I don't know all the details, but what do you guys think about that? thoughts on that? Andrea: Well, the Australian government actually, one of their campaign promises a few years ago was that they were going to take legal action over the illegal whaling.
And so, to a certain extent, we wanted to test that. But, really, what we were looking to try and do was to understand how we can understand popularity on the site, because that seems to be at the heart of much legal action against YouTube. And there a lot of interesting ways to try and understand popularity and there's a lot of very good work--work like this that maps over time, say, user-generated videos and