law EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it Cory Doctorow

criminal justice reform Freedom-hating Texas Attorney General sues Dallas for voter-approved measure to end pot arrests Ellsworth Toohey

politics Long island lawmakers ban masks in public, with up to a year in jail Rob Beschizza

twitter Finally, something interesting came from the Twitter Files Thom Dunn

Deep in the heart Uvalde's mayor is angry about the attention his police department's inaction is receiving Jason Weisberger

surveillance French government proposes new ban on filming and photographing police Thom Dunn

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

monopolism Share prices slide as DOJ announces sweeping antitrust investigations of Big Tech Cory Doctorow

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Sleuthing from public sources to figure out how the Hateful Eight leaker was caught Cory Doctorow

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

trumpism Missouri's latest senator is part of a wave of (extremely selective) Republican enthusiasm for trustbusting Cory Doctorow

Fox 'n Fools Fox & Friends edits video to falsely discredit a US Senator Jason Weisberger

surveillance Uganda's unenforceable social media tax is augmented by a biometric requirement for SIM card purchases Cory Doctorow

racism How the North does Jim Crow Rob Beschizza

streets Why we should get rid of jaywalking laws Clive Thompson

happy mutants China's Internet Czar has been purged Cory Doctorow

privacy Snowden publicly condemns Russia's proposed surveillance law Cory Doctorow

Business Fantasy accounting: how the biggest companies in America turn real losses into paper profits Cory Doctorow