How gratis-to-play games psychologically manipulate players into paying over and over to have a chance of winning.

There is nothing exploitative in a chess set, a deck of cards, or an ordinary board game; the company that sells them doesn't manipulate the game you play so as to pressure or trick you into buying more of its product. Those are the standard of comparison by which we can see if some other game is exploitative. When you see how these companies fool people into spending money, I hope you will decide never to deal with them.

US officials have a pattern of making misleading (or outright dishonest) statements about surveillance practices.

Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden was right to flee; the US of today is "not the same country" as the one Ellsberg dared to remain in.

The latest media campaign to smear Snowden is to point out that Venezuela is guilty of some wrongful surveillance too.

Surveillance of people because they are opposed to government policies is no more legitimate in Venezuela than it is in the US.

Privacy International is suing the UK government over its massive surveillance practices.

Other human rights organizations are demanding changes in surveillance policies.

How the US pressures Internet companies into cooperating with Prism: by threatening to install their own surveillance gear without the companies' help.