After the Big Spill, which pushed the limits of undersea oil drilling, oil companies have pushed the limits even further.

Cost presents pressure to cut corners and increase the risk. This tends to create a feedback loop which servos the level of risk to one where accidents happen as often as the public will stand for.

Australia's proposed copyright repression could ban VPNs.

The international copyright censorship system increasingly comes to resemble China's political censorship system. Evidently the motive for censorship is a minor detail: it comes to the same thing.

We must reject the War on Sharing at the root, not quibble about the details of its repression.

A Hong Kong protester demands to know the names of the thugs that attacked him, so he can prosecute them.

Bravo!

The new face of France's extreme right-wing.

The Front National generally has a policy of both encouraging and forcing women to have babies. That is not only unfair to the women, it is dangerous for society.

Los Angeles has dropped its program to give an iBad to every student.

Good riddance — but many students will encounter schools that try to make them carry computers with proprietary software. Defending your freedom entails refusing to use them.