Apple has banned iThing applications that show the confederate flag. Not only those that use it as a symbol of racism, but even strategic games that use it to represent confederate army units fighting in the Civil War.

It is absurd to interpret those games as an instance of use of the confederate flag as racist symbol today. But censorship is wrong; even censorship of racism. We can say we despise racist hatred, but we must not forbid people from expressing it.

This is not the only political position Apple has censored.

It is wrong for Apple to ban applications based on what they say, but the root of this evil is that Apple has designed the operating system for the iThings as a platform for censorship. That should be a crime.

Protesters in Nauru, including 3 opposition legislators, face criminal charges. Their protest was against the government's corruption and its suspension of democracy.

The government called the protest a "riot". Have you heard that one before?

What happens to a country when its territory is swallowed by the sea?

We can say that the visitors to luxury hotels in the Maldives (each contributing a lot to global heating for one person) are consuming those islands, using them up from under the inhabitants.

The people of the Maldive Islands knew what to do to save their islands, and they did it: they elected a president who began campaigning to curb global heating. He was removed then imprisoned by a military coup that I suspect has something to do with fossil fuel interests.

In the light of what Australia and Europe are doing to refugees today, I think that they will tell the inhabitants of island nations to sit down and drown. The dictator of the Maldives must expect to buy safety for his family when the rest of the population is drowned.

We had better stop doing the things that make so many people flee their homes.

US citizens: call on Senate democrats to block the abortion restriction bill with a filibuster.

In the US: call on New York Governor Cuomo to appoint a strong replacement for policing Wall Street.