facebook Amnesty International: Google and Facebook spell trouble for human rights Seamus Bellamy

Business Ben & Jerry's on Black Lives Matter and the police killing of George Floyd: We Must Dismantle White Supremacy Xeni Jardin

coronavirus The makeshift coronavirus hospital in Central Park requires workers to oppose LGBTQ rights Thom Dunn

politics National Archive to let ICE destroy documents Rob Beschizza

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

law Tiktok took less than a day to settle parents' lawsuit over spying on their kids Cory Doctorow

Confederate States of America Pinterest and The Knot pressured to stop romanticizing former slave plantations as "romantic" wedding venues Mark Frauenfelder

Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

Technology Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to audit facial recognition tech used on West Bank Xeni Jardin

News China has 500+ Uighur camps and prisons and is holding far more than one million, activists say Xeni Jardin

web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow

facebook In Kuwait, domestic laborers are bought and sold on Instagram Xeni Jardin

facebook After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services Cory Doctorow

law Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

music What's cooler than being cool? Hundreds of musicians protesting ICE and Amazon Thom Dunn

Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

snowden Edward Snowden on the global war on encryption: "This is our new battleground" Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow