Senator Warren proposes to eliminate private prisons completely in the US, including immigration prisons.

She also plans to ban gouging prisoners for products and services.

What I like best is that she endorses the idea that certain areas of activity should be off limits to profitmaking businesses. It is not yet the idea that government services should never be privatized.

Yuval Harari: Pervasive digital surveillance will offer numerous ways to determine who is homosexual — or even has an unconscious leaning that way — for the sake of persecution. Likewise for any other quirks that people could be mistreated for.

If you belong to some group that is targeted — blacks, Palestinians, animal rights campaigners, whatever it — the secret police of your country won't hesitate to use your quirk to force you into informing.

This is another reason we must stop systems from collecting data about people.

Make or sell TVs that reports on people? Go to prison! Put up a camera that identifies people? Go to prison!

Iran is talking and acting tough, in response to damaging economic warfare. The bully and his men condemn this as inexplicable aggression.

Several years ago I reported on how Israel used the same propaganda ploy against Hamas in Gaza. In a cycle of attacks by both sides, Israel described Israeli bombing as "retaliation" and Hamas missiles as "aggression". At that time, it was noticeable that it was generally Israel that broke the truce. That does not seem to be the case in the past year, though.

Evgeny Morozov agrees that getting paid for data by Facebook will not compensate for the damage done by the power Facebook gets by having that data.

The idea that "you should own your data" is too weak a foundation to resist the systematic manufacture of consent. It puts each person in the position of negotiating a deal with various giants — exactly the way the giants want it.

Instead of negotiating individually with them, we need to join together and pass laws that stop them from snooping on us.

The conman's "deal of the century" for Palestinians includes a lot of money to be paid to Palestinians in the future.

In other words, he's asking the Palestinians to give him something on credit.

You'd have to be nuts to give the trumpets anything on credit. Remember the building contractor that did work on a Trump building, and was still suing to get paid for it when the conman was inaugurated? He was not the only one.