For a Chinese "security" executive at Zoom, "security" meant the security of the Chinese regime. He reported on users to China, and snooped on meetings. If they discussed the Tien An Men Square massacre, he terminated the meetings and the participants' accounts, on the orders of China.

Zoom management responded to the scandal by promising that in the future Zoom would only cancel an account on China's command this way if the user is in China.

Other companies that help the Chinese government impose repression include Apple and Google.

Can we expect a big company to have the scruples to decline the invitation to gain access to the "Chinese market" by becoming part of the system of oppression?

No, we can't expect it. But we must demand it.

This was the work of a rogue employee, but what made it possible is that Zoom's design lets staff snoop on every conversation as it passes through the server without getting a search warrant.

Australia has a plan for additional subsidy for gas extraction.

The Tories have been squeezing the poor for a decade. No surprise that they want poor whites to blame their bad treatment on the poor blacks instead of the rich.

We've seen similar tactics in the US. It is the standard right-wing form of divide and rule.

*A homeless man sentenced to life in prison for a $20 marijuana sale is freed after 12 years.*

The war on drugs must have taken some very bad drugs 12 years ago.

The corrupter has totally undermined the Hatch Act, which is supposed to prohibit most federal employees from taking partisan actions. Its enforcement depends on backing from the president.