Jaron Lanier and others have proposed an obvious but useless response to massive surveillance (the part that's done by companies): make them pay people for using data about them. Here's a clear refutation.

Amazon operates a corrupt market in which sellers pay to be featured to the public over their competitors. US antitrust law has proved useless to resist this.

We need laws that clearly prohibit companies from doing anything like what Amazon is doing. In the mean time, please join me in refusing to buy from Amazon. Its long history of mistreating every and anyone, while encouraging the most foolish of short-term thinking among purchasers, provides plenty of reasons.

The Inferior Department wants to weaken the Endangered Species Act in several ways. This will benefit businesses that want to destroy habitat for those species. In addition, it will appeal to the many right-wing fanatics that oppose regulation just because it regulates.

A North Carolina thug was caught on video hitting and choking a man for jaywalking. The thug faces charges.

US citizens: call on the FCC to block Sinclair TV's expansion.