Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation. Any repressive practice gets potentiated by it.

Canadian Literary Prize Suspended after Finalists Object to Amazon Sponsorship.

They recognized the wrong in a practice that so many people's brains are too numb to notice.

Extinction Rebellion protests are breaking out in the UK and spreading to Ireland and the US.

The approach of "don't scare people too much" has been tried for a many years, but it depended on politicians to be sensible. It couldn't overcome the fossil fuel money that was paying them to deny the problem. It has clearly failed; it is time for young people to say, "Don't you know you are killing us? And destroying civilization? And wiping out half the species on Earth?"

Evidence has leaked that the US plans to prosecute Julian Assange over more than one set of charges.

The new set of charges might be for publishing secret documents, which would be the bully's worst attack ever on the freedom to investigate government wrongdoing.

If these charges are recent, it is pretty certain that other charges were filed during Obama's presidency. If those were not about publishing secret documents, they must have been about something else.

Keep in mind that the DNC documents that Wikileaks revealed in 2016 showed that the DNC had corruptly and secretly acted to stop Sanders from winning the nomination. By favoring the center-right candidate Clinton, instead of being neutral as they should have been, they brought about (though not intentionally) the victory of the bully.

Many US human rights organizations are advocating the "Public Interest Privacy Principles", which seem intended to follow the GDPR.

It follows the example of Europe's GDPR, which means it would be somewhat of an improvement, but with gaping flaws:

• It would accept the collection of personal data by businesses, requiring no grounds other than "That's needed for our business model."
• It would do nothing to limit collection of data by government agencies in the name of "protecting us" from "terrorism" (which often includes dissent) and "espionage" (which often means heroic whistleblowers).