In 2017 the European Union asked Big Pharma to participate in a plan for research to speed development of vaccines for possible future epidemics. The companies were not interested.

Millions of people in Pakistan face starvation because of swarms of locusts. The government failed to spray pesticides when the infestation was small.

Australia has quietly helped corporate executives to cover up bad news and problems from shareholders.

The URL https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-surrounding-anus-proposed-online-invigilation/ appears to be about anus exams, carried out using a nonfree malware prackage called Procto-rio.

Unfortunately it is not a joke. The page is about nonfree malware called Proctorio that ANU demands students install and run to take final exams.

That the question of the ethics of making students install software in their own computers has been mentioned indicates progress in making people aware of the danger of nonfree programs.

If I were a student at ANU, I might have been forced to drop out when the school told students to install Zoom. However, first I would have asked my teachers to make recordings from the Zoom calls and post them where I could download them. Or else post the pertinent visual materials where I could get them before the class, and I could phone the Zoom server and record the audio myself. Either way, I could continue the classes without running the nonfree program myself.

As we remember the Big Spill in the Gulf of Mexico ten years ago, causing damage that still persists, let's also remember that this was BP's second oil well explosion. The first, in Azerbaijan, was mostly covered up.