Glyn Moody: ISPs that want to sort traffic into fast and slow lanes might join with Big Brother to ban encryption.

France has proposed a law to attack many human rights at once in the name of "fighting terrorism".

Reporters without Borders condemns it.

The UK government is cutting subsidies for renewable energy so can give more to nuclear power and fossil fuels.

George Monbiot: Putting a price on natural ecosystems is nonsense because the prices are fictitious, but it serves as an excuse to destroy these systems in favor of a business "worth" more.

More deeply, valuing everything in terms of money promotes the destructive values of plutocracy.

A gate agent for Southwest Airlines forced a passenger to delete a tweet that called the agent "rude", on pain of missing the flight.

Airline employees have the power to kick any passenger off a flight arbitrarily — all they have to do is claim they feel threatened. This power goes to the heads of some of them.

It's the same sort of impunity that thugs enjoy.