New York City thugs keep on regularly killing people with chokeholds and not being punished, even though the thug department formally prohibited choke holds 28 years ago. The system that judges accusations against thugs is structured so as not to punish them.

Will the Department of Labor please become less of a pushover when dealing with companies that classify their employees as contractors?

For big business to defend democracy requires more than silencing one of democracy's enemies, namely Trump. Big business corrupted our democracy in the 1990s and is fighting to keep control.

*Indian comedian held over ‘indecent’ jokes at show where he did not perform.* He did not perform because a gang of bigots prevented him. (They are bigots in the name of Hinduism.) Then the gang had him arrested and jailed for a "crime" of criticizing Hindu gods and a government official. Criminalizing criticism is oppression in its own right.

For some hilarious criticism of some Hindu gods, watch Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley, available on archive.org.

Facebook has experienced powerful pushback in response to its announced coming change in use of the personal data it collects.

Although this change would have increased the use of the collected data for profiling, the underlying wrong — the collection of the data is happening already. Collecting personal data is the primary wrong in WhatsApp. Even if Facebook decides to cancel the change, this reason to reject WhatsApp will still exist, as it has existed for years.

There are other reasons to reject WhatsApp, starting with the fact that it requires users to run nonfree client software on their own computers.