The Global Commission on Internet Governance report includes many admirable principles.

However, it fails to include two principles that are necessary for a freedom-respecting internet:

Users must have control over the software that does their computing (it is free software).

Systems must collect the minimum possible data about users.

I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a Mcdonalds without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

Venezuela is suffering from devastating shortages of all sorts of commodities including food.

Chavez decided to subsidize food for poor people, which the US does too, but his method operated at the store level and offered low prices to everyone for unlimited quantities. This led naturally to shortages.

The US food stamp program, by contrast, applies only to poor people and only to a limited amount of purchases. Its main problem is that not all poor people are included, but it does not cause distort the markets for the food products, so it does not cause shortages.

The US Senate just barely defeated a proposal to give the FBI increased power to track Americans' internet usage.

The Unidos Podemos party in Spain sets an example of opposing plutocratic policies instead of blaming immigrants.

Spain's right-wing Minister of the Interior, whose portfolio includes thug departments, was caught plotting against politicians that advocate independence for Catalonia.

I do not support independence for Catalonia. The advocates of independence say it is unfair for Catalonia to subsidize development of other parts of Spain. I think that's exactly what the wealthiest regions of a country should do for the poorer regions.