More NSA language-twisting: they can search your email but it isn't "collected".

Brazil has sued Samsung for operating a sweatshop.

A bill has been introduced in Congress to stop schools from punishing students for wielding pastries in the shape of a gun, or drawing a gun on paper, etc.

I support it, but it does not go far enough. We need to reverse the factors that pressure schools to adopt lunatic "zero tolerance" policies.

Nova Scotia has passed a draconian law defining any communication that seems likely to hurt someone's self-esteem as "cyberbullying", with harsh punishments.

The practice of criminalizing statements that hurt someone's feelings is a plague that affects most of the world.

A tentacle of Myhrvold's patent troll company, Intellectual Ventures, has hit a small setback, but it isn't a defeat.