Tunisian President Accused Of Complicity in Torture (while an official in Bourguiba's dictatorship).

The current president is also accused of arranging to block the prosecution of many officials for corruption.

People in a dictatorship generally obey many nasty orders because they see no safe way to avoid it. It is wrong to prosecute someone for failing to do something heroic and dangerous when there was a chance.

But even under a dictatorship it is easy to avoid taking a job which includes torturing others, so I think we should hold those who did those jobs responsible for what they did.

Many species of insect pollinators in Britain have declined greatly since 2007.

Global heating may be directly responsible for some of these species.

Rockland County in New York has banned minors not vaccinated against measles from "public spaces."

I think that something along these lines is justified, but this law may go too far. I am not sure what "public spaces" includes. Streets? Hospitals?

Many programs and systems can deduce information about a person's personality traits from various sorts of data.

This will tend to put people at a disadvantage in dealing with whoever uses the techniques. Systematically, those with less power will suffer losses from this. We need to cancel that out or prevent it, but how?

I think that using software which monitors indications of whether you are about to enter a depressive phase is perfectly sensible, provided the software is free and runs on your own computer, and the data stays in that computer. But if any nonfree software is involved, you must expect it to spy on you.

GM spent billions on stock buybacks, now says it can't afford to keep paying US workers.