The UK privatized payment of support for refugees, and some people have been evicted because the company didn't do the job.

The UK wants to extend its witchhunt against "child pornography" to blocking searches in search engines.

Don't they do that in China already?

There are other materials on the web that are deemed "illegal". If search engines accept this form of censorship, the next step will be to make them block searches for Snowden's revelations.

I find gruesomely violent pornography disgusting, as disgusting as gruesomely violent nonpornography. However, censorship is far more disgusting. The UK is rife with censorship, and that's the injustice it ought to address.

In India, pogroms against "uppity" Dalits have never stopped.

How Goldman Sachs makes big profits by intentionally delaying the delivery of aluminum to US factories.

The pending publication of lists of people who get state pensions in California spotlights the point where personal privacy and government transparency conflict.

I value freedom more than transparency; I think the list of people who get pensions should not be published.

If that statement surprises you, you may be misinformed about my views. For instance, I never advocated "open source"; that's the slogan of people who disagree with me. I advocate "free software", free as in freedom.

See also Evgeny Morozov's article on the difference between the two.