Intellectual freedom in in the UK is threatened by the right-wing state and by left-wing students.

A German investigation has determined that the NSA spied pervasively on the German government.

Republicans in several state legislatures have passed laws to pre-empt cities from regulating areas such as minimum wage and fracking; and they remove local voter initiatives from the ballot, so that the city cannot challenge the validity of the state's pre-emption.

The Corporations United (*) decision allows companies to tell their employees how to vote , and one big investor is trying to do this through all the companies he invests in.

This shows why we need a constitutional amendment that denies across the board that corporations are entitled to human rights — not just in regard to campaign spending.

* The front group used the misleading term "Citizens United"; there is no reason for us to join it in misleading people about what it represented.

The Library of Congress approved several specific three-year exemptions to the DMCA's prohibition on breaking DRM (digital restrictions management).

However, since the exemptions do not allow distributing the means to actually do so, they may in some cases be impossible to take advantage of.

The campaigns for these exemptions are a harmful distraction which saps energy from what we really need: to repeal what the DMCA says about DRM. It should be a crime to make systems with DRM.

The article uses the ill-advised term "digital locks" to refer to digital restrictions mechanisms. See the explanation of why that term is a bad analogy, and please join me in not using it.