When India's government launched an inquiry about Facebook's drastically unneutral internet access scheme (gratis access to the poor, limited to a specific set of sites), Facebook started a DDOS campaign asking its useds to send nonresponsive answers.

Worse, Facebook's proprietary apps made useds' computers send expressions of support for this campaign, even when the useds did not want to.

Never trust these cr…apps. They are as dangerous as any other proprietary software.

Students have been convicted in Bangladesh of killing secular blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.

I disapprove of the death penalty on principle, but aside from that I welcome this ruling.

The responsibility of prosecuting killer thugs in the US typically falls on their colleagues, the local prosecutors. No wonder it is so hard to do this.

Thugs accused of killing, or making false accusations, should be prosecuted by others.

El Niño rains will not suffice to refill California's depleted aquifers.

Trying to spot terrorists through supposed "behavioral indicators" of terrorists has never had a success, and the evidence that they are useless keeps increasing.