The IMF proposes using people's digital dossiers to calculate their credit scores — which would in effect convert them into social credit scores.

Some Cuban dissidents get US backing and even support the wrecker. What they believe would be bad for Cuba just as it is bad for the US.

However, that doesn't excuse Cuba's imprisonment of them for saying what they think.

Not all Cuban dissidents support right-wing extremism. Oswaldo Payá did not. The Cuban government had him killed.

For a Chinese "security" executive at Zoom, "security" meant the security of the Chinese regime. He reported on users to China, and snooped on meetings. If they discussed the Tien An Men Square massacre, he terminated the meetings and the participants' accounts, on the orders of China.

Zoom management responded to the scandal by promising that in the future Zoom would only cancel an account on China's command this way if the user is in China.

Other compagnies that help the Chinese government impose repression include Apple and Google.

Can we expect a big company to have the scruples to decline the invitation to gain access to the "Chinese market" by becoming part of the system of oppression?

No, we can't expect it. But we must demand it.

The CIA has been directing and managing Afghan murder teams. The teams carry out various sorts of violence, including kidnapping, mutilation and murder. Sometimes they attack schools and kill the children.

Pfizer participated in the campaign to make the WTO impose patents worldwide, including patents on drugs. Now it cites that plutocatist coup as a "principle" that it would be unthinkable to reject.

My view is that we should eliminate patents entirely, and most especially eliminate them from medicine, agriculture and software.

The article has a confusion because it uses the term "intellectual property". That is a catch-all term for several unrelated laws (patent law being one), so sometimes the article is talking about patents and sometimes it is implicitly talking about other things as well.