It is dangerous to allow Visa and Mastercard to decide what you can pay for Recall that they blocked donations to Wikileaks. They were forced to back down because European law regulates them strictly, since that field has so little competition.

The EFF article explains why sex web sites — especially exploitative ones like Pornhub — offer a perfect opportunity to establish new systems of repression, which afterword will endanger the rights of anyone and everyone.

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah calls for a new law in the UK to reduce toxic air pollution, as a memorial to her daughter who was killed by that.

Why did it take seven years to investigate the cause of her death? I have a hunch it delayed by the lobbying of car and gas companies, which have great political influence on the Tories.

The measures that need to be taken are basically the same ones needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. Basically, the UK now knows it has two reasons to carry out those measures. The question is whether the Tories will bow to those reasons and stop resisting.

I expect the US has the same problem. Would someone like to send me a reference?

*Survey Shows Americans—Regardless of Partisan Affiliation—Don't Want Biden to Appoint a Corporate Cabinet.*

So if he does appoint one, we will know it is not in response to popular demand.

Alibaba has software designed to recognize from a person's face whether perse is a Uighur.

This will be used for various sorts of repression in China.

Rivest et al show that, while all online voting is deeply untrustworthy, adding a blockchain makes it even worse.