Right-wing senators continue to block the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the board of the FCC, using bogus excuses, The latest bogus excuse is that she is on the board of the EFF, which opposed and opposes the internet censorship law, SESTA/FOSTA, which was designed to sabotage internet advertising by sex workers, by making platforms fear false accusations based on the hypothetical possibility that those sex workers are enslaved.

We who oppose SESTA/FOSTA believe it is unjust to attack people by provoking fear, in those people and those they cooperate with, of being suspected of something they don't actually do. We also believe that sex work in itself is not evil.

An NHS nurse writes of her decision to join the strike: the NHS is too impoverished and weakened to provide proper medical care.

Australia is heading for requiring users of dating apps to prove their legal identities.

I understand the importance of keeping out threats and contempt, but just as Facebook's real name requirement is oppressive, so will the dating app real name requirement be.

Of course, all these sites treat their users unjustly in another way: by requiring each user to run a nonfree program. The internet is likely to transform into a system for rigid repression. I hope we can keep some corners of it safe from repression.

The UK plans to deport all refugees arriving in boats, with no possibility of an exception.

One country at a time, the world is eliminating the right to go to a country and ask for asylum.

This policy would violate the European convention on human rights, so Tories want to cancel UK's membership in that convention. In this way, cruelty towards boat people paves the way for cruelty towards everyone else.

*[Friday's] jobs report may spook the Fed (but it shouldn't).*