Broapp is designed to help people pretend to pay attention to other people while not really doing so.

I don't think there would be anything wrong with using something comparable to Broapp if you admitted that's what you were doing. The nasty aspect is that it's intended for pretending.

This is, however, disregarding all the things that are unjust about the technology it depends on. For instance, if it is obtained from an app store, then it is obtained with nonfree software. It probably is nonfree software.

A university in India suspended all its Kashmiri students for not ratting on some of them who cheered for Pakistan's team in a cricket game.

Organic farmers report that contamination from GMOs is causing them substantial losses.

How Ukraine's new government has menaced and provoked citizens of Russian ancestry, while threatening democracy too.

Reportedly the Russian-installed government of the Crimea has demanded a referendum on the Crimea's future.

If that is true, this demand should be granted — on condition of withdrawal of Russian troops, and with UN monitoring of the vote, and with a reasonable waiting period.

It would be hard to have a free and fair vote under Russian control, but the current Ukrainian government is hard to trust either.

General al-Sisi has declared his intention to run for president of Egypt in an election that clearly won't be fair.