The Senate is considering a bill to ban companies from using contracts to prohibit customers from saying anything bad about the company.

That would be good. Will the bill ban attempts to use copyright to do this?

Will it ban imposing arbitration on customers?

Major US airlines have offshored heavy maintenance to facilities that the FAA can't properly inspect, and in practice does not try. Maintenance workers in the US report serious flaws.

There is no reason to allow US-flag airlines to do maintenance outside the US except in emergencies.

The UK's snooping bill is " the last policy discussion about surveillance before the mass gagging."

If this bill passes, no debate will be allowed; the entire subject will be secret.

Comcast admitted internally that its data caps have nothing to do with network congestion.

They are not traffic-shaping, but market-shaping. Comcast is taking advantage of the lack of competition in the US network market.

Wireless networks are too close to a monopoly to be allowed to set their own rules. They should be regulated as utilities.

The US is upgrading some nuclear bombs to make them more "usable".

That is going in the wrong direction.