Chinese economists advocate total surveillance in the name of making a planned economy work.

Total surveillance means total tyranny, so even if it does function in some economic sense, it is a bad system.

EFF: Protect the Privacy of Cross-Border Data: Stop the DOJ Bill.

Cats in Australia kill a million birds of native species per day, and may be a crucial factor in wiping them out.

I seem to recall having read about an effort to eradicate cats from some island. Might it be possible to sterilize the feral cats of Australia, and keep all non-neutered cats indoors, for the birds' sake?

UK ministries conceal supposedly public government files by "borrowing" them permanently from the archives, then saying they "can't find" the files.

In the US, the government says the files are secret, or denies they ever existed.

Venezuela's all-powerful "constitutional assembly" has arbitrarily banned the three main opposition parties from the next national election for the "crime" of boycotting the recent local elections.

The "constitutional assembly" is really the "constitution override", since it serves to enable Maduro to set the constitution aside arbitrarily. The government obeys the constitution except when it doesn't.

The criticism from the US is ironic since the cheater is setting the US constitution aside simply by ignoring it.