Noam Chomsky comments on the world geopolitical situation.

UK construction companies will pay millions of dollars to the workers that they conspired to blacklist.

Digital Restrictions Management is an injustice in itself, but it has a tendency to develop into sabotage — occasionally some DRM-afflicted works stop functioning because a company decides they are "no longer supported".

Since DRM is an injustice, so are the laws that prohibit breaking DRM. These laws' purpose is to give certain businesses power over the public. That purpose is evil, and the laws' effect is evil. It follows that these laws have no moral authority, and violating them is not in any way wrong.

If the government wants to teach people the habit of obeying laws, it should repeal laws like these.

In addition to being an injustice in itself, DRM implies a security vulnerability.

The article doesn't say it, but the vulnerability has a name: "nonfree software."

It would be better to avoid using the term "digital locks" to describe DRM, since that fails to express why DRM is an injustice.

The FBI is menacing a core Tor developer, trying to make her answer questions without a lawyer present.

The unpredictability of Chinese censorship may be intentional, to make people generally timid.