Comparing Facebook's grab for internet control with Monsanto's control over seeds.

The article gets confused in one point by the incoherent term "intellectual property". The sense of understanding that you get from that term represents a false understanding.

US Planning New Iran Sanctions over Ballistic Missile Programme.

Some states have strict laws about students' privacy, which schools violate by handing students' data to Google. Schools try to defeat these laws by designating Google as a "school official".

One part of the solution is that schools should not accumulate so much data about their students. Personal data, once collected, will be misused.

Unjust extension of copyright in the US has denied us the use of many books and works published in 1959. Here's a list of some.

We should shorten copyright to last 10 years, for old works and new works.

Copyright started in England as a system of censorship, and through the end of 2015 it was used in Germany to prohibit publication of Hitler's hate tract, Mein Kampf.

The world would be better off if nobody had ever thought of Hitler's form of hatred, but we can't get rid of it through censorship.