*Thousands of London protesters call for UK to rejoin EU.*

The Supreme Court will hear a case about whether section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives platforms a right to make recommendation engines recommend anything whatsoever on the site.

I think that regulating the recommendation engines is a good idea. It might be a way to make those platforms take care not to recommend bigotry, hatred, violence, disinformation, and QAnonsense, without blocking or banning any point of view.

If it makes surveillance companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook less profitable, hooray!

A judge in Québec ruled that allowing thugs to stop drivers for no specific reason is unconstitutional. The reason is that thugs often choose drivers to stop based on prejudice, for instance racism.

The US accuses Russia and China of blocking the creation of new protected marine zones near Antarctica.

*New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees.* At least, some of them will be employees. Just which ones is not yet clear.

Anyway, that's the right policy as regards gig workers who work under the direction of a company. I hope the drivers for Uber will be treated better in the future.

This does not cure the basic injustice of Uber towards its customers. So I will continue my stance of refusing to board an Uber car. Protect your freedom and privacy — don't be a customer of Uber.