A German court has approved a form of fair use for short music samples.

Good news — and shame on Kraftwerk for opposing this!

President-elect Duterte of the Philippines advocates murdering "corrupt" journalists. It appears that "corrupt", in his mouth, means anyone that criticizes him.

Thugs in the Philippines have already started a wave of murders, with his encouragement. They are killing suspected drug dealers. If they kill some suspected dissidents too, maybe those will be lost among the suspected drug dealers.

Erdoğan has officially labeled Gülen's movement as "terrorist". (Apparently they tried to explode Erdoğan's overinflated ego.)

This is meant to try to pressure the US government to hand Gülen over to Turkey, but I expect it will be an excuse for more persecution in Turkey.

Several "US" companies have signed a pledge to censor "hate speech", which is a crime in many European countries.

This includes statements of views that are protected in the US. We must not ban expression of opinions just because we find them disgusting.

The Thai military government has given itself the power to spy on all internet traffic in the country.

Leaks suggest that it intends to carry out man-in-the-middle attacks to spy on use of foreign web sites through https.