Cleveland's strict restrictions on protests near the Republican Convention prohibit anything people could stand on, but allow guns.

This is what the ACLU has sued about.

Canada has a law requiring any online service to give you whatever data it has about you.

This is a good law, in that it helps users find out how much they are being snooped on. But it is not enough. Important services must be required to offer you a mode that doesn't surveil or track you. For instance, Guber must allow people to request a ride anonymously and pay anonymously.

US citizens: tell the DNC: Gov. Malloy must stand up to the insurance industry now.

US citizens: call for government measures to reduce the price of pharmaceuticals.

A Turkish cartoonist has been convicted of insulting Erdoğan.

Shame on Turkey for having laws that make insults a crime. Shame on Erdoğan for applying them.