videos Today: Take part in an interactive online screening of "The Crossing" for Human Rights Day Cory Doctorow

News Philonise Floyd, brother of slain George Floyd, asks U.N. to investigate police brutality and racist violence against Black Americans Xeni Jardin

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

Business Amnesty vs. NSO Group Israel spyware lawsuit goes behind closed doors Xeni Jardin

gender American Airlines now offers 'U' and 'X' gender markers for nonbinary flyers Xeni Jardin

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Business China tech firms shape new facial recognition and surveillance standards at UN: Report Xeni Jardin

web theory Contract for the Web: Tim Berners-Lee calls on world governments (and us all) to make the web a force for good Cory Doctorow

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

human rights Davos in the Desert is back, and banks and hedge fund managers are flocking to Mister Bone-Saw's side Cory Doctorow

racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

florida Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested for trafficking dozens of young girls for sex Cory Doctorow

racism Jewish human rights scholar: yes, America has built concentration camps Cory Doctorow

Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow

wikileaks Chelsea Manning is going back to court tomorrow: you can help her by writing to the DoJ Cory Doctorow

gwot Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it Cory Doctorow

Good news for once Myanmar releases Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison after 511 days Xeni Jardin

migration U.S. government now caging asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso, Texas Xeni Jardin

despots Brunei has a new law: death by stoning for gay sex Mark Frauenfelder

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