*Break up UK's big high street banks, say cross-party MPs.*

I agree. Big banks, like other big companies, have too much power, which they can use to exploit, or to lobby.

Facebook agreed to a scheme to pay newspapers for using some of their articles in a featured way.

While it is probably a good thing in a general sense for Facebook to pay some money to newspapers, this will enable Facebook to gain increased political influence while choosing which newspapers to support and which to ignore. I suspect that it is a change for the worse, overall.

*Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro.*

Some of the prostitutes in the UK are enslaved. How to put a stop to that?

This article avoids the frequent prudish assumptions. It notes the existence of enslavement in the field of sex work but does not jump irrationally to the conclusion that all prostitution must be stamped out. So it confronts us with the challenge that really exists: to put an end to enslavement of sex workers.

The general long-term solution, I believe, is to make sure nobody is desperate enough to need to take a job offer that is too good to be true. But that is an enormous global challenge.

Treating this like kidnaping or wage theft in any other field, assuring women who might become prostitutes that they won't be penalized for that but that registering could enable them to be rescued, might help. Legalizing brothels provided they have registered the owners and managers, and frequently inspecting the operations of each one, might make it easier to find them, if the penalty for running an unregistered brothel is years in prison.

Amnesty accuses Facebook and Youtube of helping Vietnam's political censorship.