*In the age of Covid, sanctions against ‘rogue states’ just spread the misery.*

John Pilger: *The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange. Whose Side Are You On?*

I note that he published this on his own site. Apparently there is no newspaper which would touch it.

India has accused an old man of terrorism for helping poor people organize nonviolent resistance against mining companies.

It happens that the man is a Catholic priest, so Catholics are protesting his arrest.

Jailing opposition leaders has become standard practice for India's repressive right-wing government.

Twitter has retreated from a rule blocking people from pointing at published material that was obtained by cracking computer systems.

Please do not refer to that practice as "hacking." That insults us hackers. Please call it "cracking."

The policy Twitter has dropped was very dangerous. Even though the material about Hunter Biden in that NY Post article was neither new nor significant, in other cases the information may be very important.

The FCC proposes to regulate what social (or antisocial) communication platforms can publish.

The FCC is obeying the orders of the wrecker. Some of those platforms do great harm, but the wrecker benefits from that harm, so I expect the FCC under his domination to try to aggravate the problems. However, I would not trust Biden on this issue either — nor any politician, except one with a very strong commitment to freedom of speech.