Journalists in Thailand face seven years in prison for accusing military officers of being involved in human trafficking.

I have no facts about this, but it is a pattern known world-wide that smugglers often pay off the officials responsible for stopping smuggling. It happens in the US Border Patrol, for instance. It would be hard for any country to avoid this.

The pretext for this prosecution is that the information threatened national security. That's what governments say about reporting that threatens national embarrassment. Compare this with Australia's ban on disclosing how the state treats refugees and Spain's law against recording what thugs do.

The threat to kill journalists who do not report the "truth", reminds me of Egypt's ban on reporting any sources except official ones.

Laura Poitras has sued the US for persistent harassment when she entered the US.

Senator Warren: government must fund research into medical benefits of marijuana, not just research into problems it causes.

The research into problems is useful nonetheless. It shows, for instance, that driving under the influence of marijuana is not a significant social problem.

What the UK's proposed reforms on mass surveillance do and don't achieve.

A proposed anonymizing wi-fi extender project has mysteriously shut down, leading to suspicion that the developers were threatened by someone.