Apple lobbies against "right to repair" laws.

Abuse or maltreatment of children tends to have specific effects on the development of the brain. It is also known to make later mental illness more likely.

Many government programs can help protect children from the stress that can hurt their development. Welfare funds for families, good funding for public schools, shelters for victims of domestic violence, as well as providing contraception and abortion (you shouldn't have a child if you feel unready to take care of one).

The great internet swindle: powerful monopoly intermediaries that suck the wealth out people while accumulating personal data about them.

My simple rule of paying cash, which I adopted to protect my privacy, mostly means I don't deal with those companies at all. And that's how I want it.

A judge in Kenya ruled that requiring an anal exam to see if two men had been penetrated anally was not torture, and a required blood test for two sexually transmitted diseases was not degrading.

I agree with this ruling. I had a colonoscopy and it was not bad. I've also had blood tests, and they don't actually hurt. I don't feel degraded by either of them.

The real injustice here is the criminalization of homosexual sex.

Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee describes his imprisonment in China and how he was forced to recite a scripted confession for a video.

China sent him back to Hong Kong to return with records about customers who bought their books (which accused important Chinese politicians of corruption). He says he will not do this; I suppose he or his family will face some sort of reprisals for his non-return, which makes it a heroic act.

Never let a book store know your name! Especially, don't buy books from Amazon.