The Australian Capital Territory plans to punish jurors if they try to learn anything on their own about the case under trial.

What this suggests to me is a plan to make damned sure that whistleblowers get the sort of trial that makes jurors ashamed afterward of voting to convict.

The International Day Against DRM is Dec 9 -- do something to call for the abolition of Digital Restrictions Management.

*US university presidents to testify before Congress over claims of antisemitic protests on campuses.*

Antisemitism is a vicious attitude, just like antimuslimism, racism and sexism. However, the right to express those attitudes is part of freedom of speech.

Many countries other than the US have prohibited expression of those attitudes. Whether that reduces them is not at all clear, but it certainly infringes on freedom of speech.

Binance and its CEO pled guilty to disregarding financial rules, such that money was sent to Iran and Syria, to ransomeware, and various other criminals.

However, the large fine will not necessarily make this change.

At the very least, Binance (and each of its divisions even if sold to some other company) should be required to have an independent compliance monitor forever, and these monitors should be paid directly by the federal government (not by Binance) using money that Binance will pay each year as a fine. That will make it hard for Binance to exert improper influence over them.

US citizens: call on the Biden administration to halt massive CO2-emitting project -- the largest LND export project ever considered.