censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow
fake news Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
books China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing "1984" on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four Cory Doctorow
News Brazil Elections: Facebook's WhatsApp “taking immediate legal action” against political spammers Xeni Jardin
surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow
law City of Sarajevo bans unsanctioned utterances of its name, threatens Facebook groups Cory Doctorow
trumpism CBD is a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that shows promise in epilepsy and pain therapy, so the DEA wants to class it with heroin Cory Doctorow
Science The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren't dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase "science-based." Cory Doctorow
scary phonemes Canadian censor board says "fuck" OK for French speakers, but not English speakers Mark Frauenfelder
california 'Fuck Trump' projected on a building in California's 'Mayberry by the Bay' Rusty Blazenhoff
censorship Quackspeak ascendant: China's subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet Cory Doctorow
likely stories Conservative Iranian television host spotted drinking beer in public without hijab Mark Frauenfelder
spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here's what that would cost, and here's why it won't work anyway Cory Doctorow
