Another form of massive surveillance of portable phone users: cell tower dumps indicate all phone users in a region at a certain time.

How State Secrecy Protects Government Agencies from Embarrassment, Then And Now.

Turkey has banned access to YouTube.

A philosopher who argued that global heating denialists are doing something immoral received piles of hate mail.

Of course, funding global heating denialists is immoral. It may be illegal, too. Since global heating is likely to kill a large fraction of the human population, an activity that aims at making sure global heating continues is attempted murder. Since it is likely to wipe out many species, some of which are already endangered and legally protected, denialist activities may be a criminal conspiracy too.

We should not let the perpetrators get away with it. If we can't stop them in time to prevent their crime, which will dwarf all the genocides in history put together, we should make sure it is punished.

Ukraine will be hit by an IMF "bailout".

The article says nothing about how Ukraine will be required to change its laws, but in the past IMF "aid" has been devastating for other countries.