Greece will ban bottom trawling in protected marine areas.

The UK is considering a law to forever ban sales of tobacco to anyone born after 2008.

Tobacco is deadly and addictive. I wish everyone would avoid ever using it, and I wish all smokers would quit. I personally urge people to quit. But I oppose prohibition of drugs that people want to use, because it tends to cause great harm to society in other ways.

University of Cologne retracted an offer of a visiting professorship to Nancy Fraser over opinions she stated about the war in Gaza.

I disagree firmly with Professor Fraser's views — legitimization of HAMAS's large terrorist action, and assertion that Israel's very existence is an injustice. But those are tangents to the issue at hand. People have a right to advocate those views, and should bot be blacklisted for them.

*USC draws backlash for canceling valedictorian’s speech due to support for Palestine.*

Whether she was actually going to talk about that in her canceled speech is unknown, but supposing she was, "support for Palestine" is a rather broad category. There are many different views that qualify, and most of them are not threatening anyone.

The concern for "security" that the university claimed was a bogus excuse — in effect, "We are gagging you for your own safety."

The UK has banned the destructive fishing method of bottom trawling. giving some real protection to several "protected" marine areas. The ban applies to all fishing boats, including French ones.

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France should retaliate by banning bottom trawling in some French waters. Eventually the two countries could entirely eliminate that practice near their coasts.
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