The NSA says it will destroy its records of all US phone calls.

This would be a great victory, except that this system of massive surveillance will be replaced with a different system of massive surveillance, where the phone companies keep the same records and let the NSA search them.

In fact, at least one phone company already does this, and the records go back 25 years (maybe 27 years now) instead of a mere 14 years.

Australia threatens to imprison a man for trying to join the Kurdish army.

How stupid, treating PISSI's secular enemies just like PISSI itself!

More about Georgia's copyright lawsuit against Carl Malamud.

The MPAA and Mississippi's attorney general conspired on a campaign to smear Google in the mass media as an excuse to impose SOPA-style anti-sharing measures.

North Korea is sending thugs to people's homes to find and destroy copies of prohibited publications.

In the UK they jail people who are found with copies of prohibited publications.