(satire) *"No Way To Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.*

*Big carmakers stuck in slow lane over switch to zero emissions.*

The UK's plutocratist government has arranged to make poor people pay a higher rate for gas and electricity than everyone else. Now some poor people are disconnecting those services rather than pay debts of around 10 to 20 dollars.

2000 years ago, local climate alterations wiped out Rome's favorite herb. Now, global climate alterations can wipe out many plant species, including some we grow massive quantities of.

The European Union proposes to become a branch of China.

The European Union executive branch has proposed a directive for mandatory censorship of communication services including chat and email, which includes requiring client software to scan for prohibited communications. Interpreting the description here literally, this would prohibit free software email or chat clients.

The rules would also apply to cloudy services that offer to store data and snoop on it. Under these rules, they would be required to snoop on everything.

The proposal would also require all digital services to make users prove their identity, presumably through some nonfree software and/or online disservice. This would be the total surveillance society that we have long feared the internet would turn into — a place in which whistleblowing and dissent would inevitably be caught.