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Barbie the Spy

2015-03-16 09:58:16| Toys - Topix.net

Historian Christopher Dietrich on the 100-year-long history of American torture; Jeffrey St. Clair on the implications of giving impunity to the CIA's torturers; Chris Floyd on how the US has exported torture to its client states around the world. David Macaray on the Paradoxes of Police Unions; Louis Proyect on Slave Rebellions in the Open Seas; Paul Krassner on the Perils of Political Cartooning; Martha Rosenberg on the dangers of Livestock Shot-up with Antibiotics; and Lee Ballinger on Elvis, Race and the Poor South.

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Ubiquitous doll is now an information-gathering device Barbie the Spy

2015-03-15 15:10:07| Toys - Topix.net

One is surveillance, about which we've written often on this site. The other is the Barbie doll: the ubiquitous toy that has for decades molded girls' concept of "the perfect female" as having an impossible-to-achieve figure derived from sexist fantasy and has taught them that their lives should be about dressing up and attracting the attention of a boring male named "Ken".

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'Eavesdropping' Barbie creepy and dangerous: Advocacy group

2015-03-13 22:24:01| Toys - Topix.net

A children's advocacy group has launched a petition to stop the production of "Hello Barbie" - a Barbie doll with an embedded microphone and Wi-Fi connectivity to record and transmit children's conversations. According to the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood's website, Mattel Inc. has partnered with ToyTalk to process the recordings and use the information so Barbie can have two-way conversations with kids through a built-in speaker.

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Talking Barbie is too creepy for some parents

2015-03-12 02:01:20| Wireless - Topix.net

Little girls have been talking to their Barbies for years, but one coming out this fall will actually listen and talk back. While that may sound exciting to a 5-year-old, an advocacy group calls it "creepy" and is pressuring Mattel to keep the toy off shelves.

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