Companies that store data about users in China are required to cooperate unquestioningly with Chinese surveillance, and must not send the data to anyone outside China without China's approval.

This protects people in China from non-Chinese surveillance and profiling, while making all of them totally vulnerable to China.

The proposed British law to restrict the right to protest — even alone — says this is in the name of avoiding noise!

Right-wingers say the law is good because the thugs like it. Duh! I say that confirms it is bad.

* Rep. Mondaire Jones said [Senator] Sinema [by defending the filibuster] is effectively arguing that "we should let Republicans destroy democracy now because at some indeterminate time in the future they may try again."*

New article : Worker-owned internet services can still be dis-services.

*US military training manual describes socialism as "terrorist ideology."*

That is arrant bullshit. Today's socialists are mostly not violent at all. Some communists are violent, but that is mainly when they are working for violent communist states such as China.