The Iraqi army is still incapable of taking Mosul.

A refugee forcibly sent by Australia to Nauru had a heart attack, and died waiting to be sent to Australia for treatment. He apparently had tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of medicines.

Nauru does not allow journalists unless they are totally tame.

Meanwhile, the Australian staff face threats of imprisonment if they talk about any sort of mistreatment of the prisoners. Australia is running a vicious scheme that allows it to conceal any abuse.

The Tories want to impose political control over the BBC.

SEC And Chuck Grassley Still Trying To Stop Email Privacy Act That Got UNANIMOUS Support In The House.

Reddit's Technology Subreddit Ponders Banning Wired & Forbes For Blocking Adblock Users.

What they call "ad blockers", I call "surveillance blockers", and that's what's important about them. I don't care about seeing an ad, as such; I object to surveillance and I will block surveillance.

I encourage the redditors to ban sites that are egregious supporters of surveillance.