The Senate's still unpublished report on CIA torture intentionally disregards the role of higher officials in the Bush regime.

Finland has a system for the public to propose revised laws by petition; then the parliament is supposed to vote on these changes. A petition for small relaxation in harsh copyright law was rejected by a committee as too radical.

So far, parliament has rejected all six of the petitions without voting on any of them.

The US wants to use the TPP to impose criminal penalties on access to trade secrets through a computer, with no protection even for journalists investigating dangerous or unjust practices.

This calls to mind the "Ag-Gag" bills designed to criminalize undercover investigations of shameful or illegal farm practices.

The UK government wants to be able to collect data from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube automatically (without a warrant, of course).

New pun: geometer.