cries at dog food commericals One of the CIA's waterboarding torturers called himself "The Preacher" and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions Cory Doctorow
valve turners The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same "domestic terrorist" category as Dylan Roof and James Fields Cory Doctorow
nathan ruser Authenticating a video showing hundreds of kneeling people in shackles and blindfolds on a Chinese railroad platform Cory Doctorow
Fēng cǎi Chinese authorities are secretly installing their anti-Uyghur surveillance app on the phones of tourists to Xinjiang province Cory Doctorow
countering violent extremism A report from the Christchurch Call, where the future of "anti-extremist" moderation was debated at the highest levels Cory Doctorow
zuck's empire of oily rags Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups Cory Doctorow
filters are the new black Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow
algorithms of oppression Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
europol French officials call Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive "terrorism," demands removal from Internet Archive Cory Doctorow
public private partnerships from hell The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts "illegal" or "harmful" material Cory Doctorow
state services commission New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist Cory Doctorow
precrime Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow
air marshals Quiet Skies: Air Marshals are following thousands of random Americans through airports and on planes, for no articulatable purpose Cory Doctorow
jihadism Al Shabab declares plastic bags to be unislamic, bans their use in jihadi-controlled Somali territory Cory Doctorow
one nation under canada Canadian border guards have secret access to a US "anti-terror" database of 680,000 names Cory Doctorow
anna campbell RIP Anna Campbell, a British woman who joined an all-woman Kurdish Protection Unit in Syria Cory Doctorow
the invisible hand Local UK governments say identifying buildings with Grenfell cladding would be a gift to arsonists and terrorists Cory Doctorow
