Facebook seeks to implement the opposite of network neutrality, world-wide. Accessing Facebook will be gratis, while accessing any other site will be too expensive for half the human population.

Considering the way mobile phones track and spy on people, I think it is a shame that so many people use them now.

US laws increasingly criminalize discussion of computer security weaknesses in the US.

That suits the NSA, which wants your computer to be insecure.

By the way, "code is law" is false in one important case: when you're using free software. With free software, you are free to make it do what you wish.

President Sirisena accuses Rajapaksa of trying to launch a coup to stop the counting of ballots.

It did seem surprising he would allow himself to be voted out of office after so much violence against his opponents.

The new president says he wants to revert Rajapaksa's authoritarian changes in the constitution, but it won't be easy.

Goldman Sachs is trying to threaten Greece, as it has threatened other countries, but it looks like Syriza will not obey.

Haiti is broken because of international intervention (on behalf of plutocracy).