The Australian government has launched an army of lies to justify its attack on the poor and the environment.

A US appeals court ruled that APIs are copyrightable.

Here's why that is dangerous.

I've seen reports that this isn't a precedent and won't affect many other cases, but even if it is not certain disaster, it is a danger of disaster.

Coversnitch: snooping on the public as art.

In San Francisco, buses have microphones. In Canberra, taxis have microphones. Lampposts with microphones are being sold; where they have been installed, I don't know.

Microsoft lets the US government snoop directly on its "SkyDrive" storage system.

Letting a company keep your data is for clods. We could call it a clod storage system.

The major US ISPs threaten not to make any more investment if the FCC maintains network neutrality.

This article says they are bluffing.

If we give in to threats from businesses, they will push us around. We must treat them like any other bully and tell them that we will never give them what they want for threats. If they threaten us, we will make them regret it.

We could do as some other countries do, and separate the physical cables from ISP service. That way we could have a lot more competing ISPs that communicate over the same cables.