happy mutants Taiwan's legal crowdsourcing tool is working surprisingly well to resolve thorny legislative problems Cory Doctorow

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

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

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

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

class war Parkland student activists drive American right berzerk, supercharge attack on public education Cory Doctorow

obits Rest in Power, David Vyorst Aram Sinnreich

corruption Someone wiped a key server in Georgia right after voters filed a lawsuit over insecure voting-machines Cory Doctorow

Business How Lloyds of London solved the precarious market for kidnapping ransoms Cory Doctorow

Business Proposal: turn Twitter into a user-owned co-op Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Disney offers to deduct contributions to its PAC from employees' paychecks, to lobby for TPP Cory Doctorow

Business CEOs are lucky, tall men Cory Doctorow

politics Journalists around the world voice support for Netzpolitik after outrageous 'treason' investigation Trevor Timm

tech Online activism and why the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act must die Molly Sauter

How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks Glenn Fleishman