To resist massive surveillance, people must learn to reject invitations to use services that surveil their users.

Although the article has a valid point, it undermines itself with the typical defeatist statements that "we" all engage in these surveillance-feeding practices now. Readers might well suppose that if "everyone does it" then there is no point seriously thinking of stopping.

But it's not all of us, only some of us. It is possible to say no. I have never used Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Foursquare, Google+ or Path. (I might consider using Twitter for tweeting, if it were convenient for me.) I don't have a portable phone because I don't want to tell a phone company everywhere I go.

Leaked Regulation: Schrödinger's net neutrality on its way in Europe.

The Australian right-wing "plan" to confront global heating is a phony plan developed by deniers.

The manufacturer of tasers says, don't fire at the chest — it can cause a heart attack. Can you guess what body part thugs usually fire at?

The acquittal of George Zimmerman could encourage racist whites to attack black teenagers presuming they are criminals, and then kill them.

Black leaders in the US want George Zimmerman to be tried on a federal charge of "violating civil rights."

I don't support this campaign because I think the practice is a sneaky way to violate the constitutional prohibition of double jeopardy.

Something needs to be changed in the law so as to avoid encouraging such killings, but I am not sure what it should be.