health Syracuse cops falsely accuse man of rectal dope-stashing and take him to hospital for nonconsensual anal probe; now he must pay $4600 for the procedure Cory Doctorow

law The TSA strip searched a grandmother on Mother's Day and now says that she's overreacting because it's no different from a locker room Cory Doctorow

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facebook Citing terms of service and "bad actors," Facebook locks out tools that catalog ads and ad targeting Cory Doctorow

lair in chief Wall Street Journal: Trump personally orchestrated hush payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal Mark Frauenfelder

News Michael Cohen secretly taped Donald Trump talking about paying off Playboy model Karen McDougal over sex claims Xeni Jardin

Copyfight The MEP behind Europe's proposed copyright censorship proposal can't explain all the copyrighted images in his social media Cory Doctorow

gender #Metoo: from the Balkans to Twitter Jasmina Tesanovic

videos For the next year, TV, newspapers, and the web will run massive ads from tobacco companies admitting that their products kill people, that they were engineered to be addictive, and that they covered this up Cory Doctorow

media Safer sex with aliens, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

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law ACLU files a lawsuit to repeal the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, used to prosecute Aaron Swartz Cory Doctorow