When companies are caught releasing illegal pollution in Texas, they hardly ever face any consequences.

Erdoğan took total practical control over Turkey's judiciary by purging a quarter of all judges. Now judges decide cases however Erdoğan tells them to.

Some judges have been imprisoned for most of a year without formal charges, awaiting review by another puppet board. Often the supposed evidence against them is secret -- something that the UK has also begun dabbling in.

I have no idea whether any Gülenists were involved in the coup attempt. Maybe some were, or maybe Erdoğan fabricated that entirely. What we can be sure of is that the Gülenists are far less dangerous to Turkey than the Erdoğanists.

Florida passed a law to make it easier for parents censor books in schools, for instance if they have too much sex or too much science.

The W3C has given final approval to standardization of DRM as part of the WWW standards, barring an appeals procedure that has never been successfully invoked.

Berners-Lee and the W3C should be ashamed.

The Free Software Foundation started its campaign against DRM around 2002 and has lead the campaign to pressure the W3C.

The EFF's also campaigns against DRM, though mostly refusing to mention our campaign. On this issue it weakened its stance by proposing compromises that included standardizing DRM, and would only have made an exception for security researchers.

The rejection of those proposed compromises shows how hostile to society are the companies that the W3C obeys when they demand obedience. Their acceptance, however, would not have made things much better.

In a long-term campaign, if you envision the current issue is the only issue, then a compromise which is only 90% defeat might seem better than losing.

The reason that is false is that the compromise has a long-term cost: it takes impetus out of the campaign. The FSF's position is that DRM is an injustice and it is never excusable.

I've posted some writings (mostly science fiction) by my friend Bob Chassell who recently died. Bob helped launch the Free Software Foundation and wrote the Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp.