In the US: call on WGBH to remove the Koch brother from its board.

The next excuse for snooping on everything on the Internet will be "child" pornography.

The term "child abuse images" is deceptive: I think in practice it includes teenagers labeled as "children", and stretches the word "abuse" too. However, some of these images will show real abuse of real children.

The government should focus on protecting the children themselves, not on censoring (and surveilling) all communication.

Poor people in the UK are suffering from increasing endebtedness, which is also true in the US.

The US should pass the International Violence Against Women Act.

Many businesses are recognizing the costs that fossil fuel and global heating will impose on them.

Investors are also pressuring fossil fuel companies to report on how their profits would be affected if we cut emissions drastically by 2050. I think the fossil fuel companies have already investigated this and that their behavior — making governments cancel or sabotage policies meant to reduce emissions — is their response.