The manifesto, Privacy And Digital Rights For All, is pretty good. It would make a significant step forward, because it specifically calls for limiting the collection and transfer of data, not solely its use.

One weakness is that it calls for a "data protection" agency. The term "data protection" presumes that data gets collected and the goal is to prevent others — "the wrong people" — from getting access to it. That idea is inadequate because the business or agency which collected the data is probably also "the wrong people", which is why the goal needs to be preventing collection of the data.

Another weakness is that it does not mention the idea of requiring systems to permit anonymity — for instance, to require services (including ride-for-hire and recharging electric cars) and digitally-controlled appliances to allow anonymous use.

Releasing preliminary data on the safety or effectiveness of a new drug is a bad idea; it replaces careful testing with manipulation.

Republican plutocratists are giving advice to "mainstream" Democratic plutocratists about allying to reject progressives.

This is just one superficial aspect of the plutocratic system in which the "mainstream" Democrats have participated since Bill Clinton's day.

Faux News and other Murdoch outlets have made a blatant switch from supporting the conman to supporting the kinder, gentler plutocratist.

For me, this highlights the amount of power that these organs of plutocracy exercise, and the harm that that power has done. It is not fortuitous that they have a plutocratist president-elect to cooperate with, instead of Sanders who might have acted to reduce their power.

Barr has asked federal prosecutors to create evidence for accusations of a conflagration of Democratic election rigging by blowing a lot of smoke.

The real problems of election rigging were various forms of voter suppression carried out by Republicans.