Amazon gave customers just one week to opt out of having their Amazon devices offer wifi connections to other people's devices.

I don't think that letting other people's devices connect is as bad as the spying that Amazon devices do. However, giving people one week to opt out of anything should be prohibited. The FCC should set standards for this, and any company that doesn't follow the standard should be prosecuted.

If a company is too big to prosecute then it is too big to exist.

Belarusian protester Stepan Latypov cut his throat in court, saying that he had pled guilty because Lukashenko's men had threatened to imprison his family and neighbors if he did not.

I suppose he had been tortured already and expected more torture, so he attempted to escape a fate worse than death.

He may have failed in that attempt — but he did land a blow on the enemy in the process. I bow to the courage he displayed in doing this.

*An Indian court has ruled that a local government administration in Uttar Pradesh filed a "false and unfounded" police report against eight Muslim leaders who had opposed the "illegal" demolition of their mosque.*

Chinese censors are very creative at inventing speech crimes.

*How US mega-dairies are killing off small farms.*