The University of New South Wales has told teachers not to talk about the fact that the Australian aboriginals reached and colonized Australia around 40,000 years ago. Science is to be suppressed so as to respect their nonscientific traditional views.

I think that lying to children is likely to backfire on them. I resent when parents demand I support their lies about Santa Claus, because I think I'd be doing wrong.

Lying to adults about their group's origin could be even worse.

Less well-off areas have least to lose from restricting diesel fuel, and most to gain from clean-air zones, study finds.

Shell's Sleazy Censorship: arranging a joint event with climate defenders, then cancelling the participation of the researcher who was going to show how Shell is still working to hamper climate defense.

Canada required social media companies to keep information on who paid for each ad political. Google responded by not running any political ads.

The author seems to think that Google somehow defeated Canada. I say it's just the opposite: Canada achieved a bigger success than it aimed for!

This suggests it may be possible for one country to succeed in defeating a system that spreads fake news, _if_ it can identify the crucial nexus at which to operate. Different networks function differently.

ACLU: beware dis-services that say, "We'll pay for your personal data" — that would only legitimize the basis of their power, not weaken it.

Shushana Zuboff's take on why "owning the data about you" would be ineffective as protection from surveillance capitalism.