In the UK, many necessary life activities exclude people that don't use snoop-phones full of nonfree software. This article shows how common that is.

The author cannot envision the idea of choosing to reject snoop-phones as a matter of justice if you are capable of using one. But you can. Every one of the restrictive activities that excludes the old people that can't use a snoop-phone are likewise doing wrong to everyone that refuses to use them.

And doing wrong to each person that does contact them with a snoop-phone.

Massachusetts voters amended the state constitution to increase the tax rate a few percent for incomes over a million dollars a year. So far so good. But the greedy rich have many ways to get rid of laws that make them pay their fair share.

The island of Viti Levu, the main island of Fiji, is being taken over by intrusive vines that grow too fast to remove. Vines are covering buildings, farms, paths, and forests. People find it hard to keep their farms going.

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