Don't use Mother Teresa as an example of a good person. Here's what she really did.

The "author" of the Snowden-accusing article admits he only repeated what British spooks told to him.

Alex Hern decided to actually read the terms of service for all the digital services he used. Here he reports on them.

It was a lot of work for him, because he intended actually to use the services so he had to read the whole terms.

It's a lot less work for me, because when I read the terms of use of a digital service, if I see anything unacceptable I don't need to read further. I just reject it.

In practice, the only digital usage terms I need to consider are for wifi portals, and that's only occasionally. Those terms are usually good enough for occasional use.

About 2/3 of the way through the article, it moves on to licenses for proprietary software. The author does not differentiate between a service (something you communicate with) and a program (something you get a copy of). However, the issues are completely different. You shouldn't even think about terms for running a program, because their existence means the program is nonfree, so you should reject it. When you have a copy of a free program, you are free to run it with no conditions whatsoever.

The author adopted terminology such as "content" and "intellectual property" from the usage terms, without questioning their validity. That's a mistake. Even using those in quotations promotes acceptance of them if you don't explain why they are misleading and wrong.

We should have laws to establish the terms for various common kinds of services.

The CIA spies on Americans, but we know very little about how much or how.

US citizens: tell Congress not to cancel women's health care and contraceptive programs.