The G20 meeting did not agree on aiming for net zero even in 2050.

Universities in the past welcomed argument about important issues. Now, it seems, they let mobs hound those who disagree.

The history of the DMCA and other similar unjust laws around the world.

The DMCA's DRM exceptions process, every three years, is a repeated distraction from campaigning for what we really need to do: legalize breaking DRM, and make DRM a crime instead.

See also my 1997 science fiction story, The Right To Read, which warned about the dangers of the DMCA as it was still going through Congress. As far as I can tell, it was the only science fiction story ever published in the Communications of the ACM.

The University of Florida told three professors they were forbidden to testify as expert witnesses in a case against Florida's latest voting restrictions law.

What the state is doing is much worse than an infringement of academic freedom. It is an attempt to bias the trial about the constitutionality of the voting restrictions law, and thus a second attack on democracy piled on the first one.

*Philadelphia to become first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations.* The point of this is to protect black drivers from one frequent opportunity to harass them for "driving while black".