The mother of all chilling effects: the Chilling Effects archive of DMCA threats has censored itself as a chilling effect of a DMCA threat.

Meanwhile, Canada's new takedown system that resembles the DMCA as a loophole that facilitates copyright trolls.

3000 Stanford professors called for the university to divest from fossil fuels.

Many Europeans ask whether America has gone crazy.

A Muslim UK minister says Muslims must acknowledge a special responsibility to oppose terrorism carried out in the name of their religion.

With the right to be a Muslim goes the responsibility to recognize everyone's right not to be a Muslim. And likewise for any other persuasion, including Atheism.

Tunisia: Blogger Yassine Ayari was sentenced to 3 years in prison for "insulting the army".

By criminalizing insults, the state has insulted itself.

Posting on Facebook is a bad idea, but should not be a crime.