censorship Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media Thom Dunn

corruption ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund Cory Doctorow

Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder

twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow

crime Violent mobs of alleged Triad gangsters dole out savage beatings to Hong Kong democracy protesters, cops nowhere to be found Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Speech Police: vital, critical look at the drive to force Big Tech to control who may speak and what they may say Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 Cory Doctorow

politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin

corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow

web theory China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world Cory Doctorow

politics Governing a decentralized internet without votes Cory Doctorow

obits Rest in Power, David Vyorst Aram Sinnreich

surveillance West coast jurisdictions advance community oversight of police surveillance Shahid Buttar

security Security of America's healthcare system is on the brink of catastrophic collapse Cory Doctorow

privacy India's controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people Cory Doctorow

politics When tech leaders meet with Trump tomorrow, here's what they need to tell him Cory Doctorow