The hunt for capitol rioters used many widely deployed surveillance technologies that can be used for repression also.

I think it is proper to have security cameras inside and around the Capitol. But their video recordings must not be accessed in any fashion except when there is probable cause for an investigation of a specific person. A security camera's recording should not be easy to view, and it should be overwritten automatically after a few weeks if there has been no grounds to look at it.

I propose the following guideline for judging whether a technology with surveillance potential is acceptable in a free society:

• If tracking or identifying any randomly chosen person is so much trouble that the state won't do it unless there is a need, it is safe.
• If identifying and tracking 100 people requires a major effort, and the state would not even consider mounting such an effort except because of an actual or planned terrorist attack or something comparable, it is safe.

US citizens: call on The NIH to tell Moderna to increase vaccine production.

If you sign, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Democrats not to weaken the infrastructure bill to cater to Republicans.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Daniel Hale's whistleblowing to journalists led to publication of important information about American drone assassinations. Prosecuting him was an attack on freedom of the press in the US.

Larry Lessig argues with the Green Party criticisms of the bill, HR1.

I agree that we should pass HR1 — modified not to make things harder for minor parties than they already are.