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Business Moscow: Twitter and Facebook fined 4 million rubles each for refusing to store data on Russian citizens in Russia Xeni Jardin
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
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drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow
eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz
News Popular UK health websites share sensitive user data with Google, Facebook, dozens more Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Britain's unbelievably stupid, dangerous porn "age verification" scheme is totally dead Cory Doctorow
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
censorship Europe's highest court Facebook verdict hits a new low for technomagical thinking Cory Doctorow
