Missouri has imposed censorship on children and teenagers using nearly all libraries in the state. The rule would deny state funding to any library that allows a library user under age 18 to see books that are not "age appropriate", or to check out a book that per parents would not approve of.

A large fraction of people of age 17 and 16 have had sex, but Missouri doesn't want them to read about books that address issues of sex or sexual relationships. "Heaven forbid they might learn something pertinent to their lives."

Digital transations make errors that endanger refugees' asylum applications.

"Battery passports" to track the raw materials used in making electric car batteries are proposed as a way of enforcing environmental regulations on mining world-wide. Critics question whether the system gives the mining companies too much influence in the system, which they could use to cheat.

I support the system for that purpose — but if businesses start offering to change out your car's battery as a quick recharge, it is crucial that those businesses not be able to examine the number of the battery that they get from you. That would become, in effect, another system for tracking where you drive.

The same reasoning applies to ordinary charging systems for cars. They must accept anonymous payment and they must be forbidden to get any identifying data digitally from the car.

Many teachers in Hong Kong are quitting for fear they will say something politically unacceptable and be punished. And many school-age children are leaving for free countries.

Escape is available only to a fraction of Hong Kongers; most can't find a free country they can move to. I am sad for them.

Here's an example of how concern about Putin's threats against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant get spun into a demand to give Putin a victorious conquest.

Putin has frequently used his capture of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine for psychplogical warfare. There is a real danger that it will lose external power and melt down. Putin has chosen to magnify the danger by creating avoidable risk — by brinksmanship.

In response to this brinksmanship, the article calls on the US to impose a cease fire fast. The only way to get Putin to agree to that is to make Ukraine cede to him all the territory that the Putin forces now hold. (Maybe even that isn't enough to satisfy him.)

Is this what the author aims for? He does not admit it outright, but I can't believe that he is not aware of it. It has been pointed out many times. According to the author, the US should tell Ukraine, "Surrender fast, so you can have peace!"

Putin says he demands the whole territory of the provinces of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk, in exchange for peace. If the US were to take the desperate "Surrender, Ukraine" position that the article recommends, Putin would take advantage of that.

If we want to avoid a nuclear disaster in the Zaporizhzhia plant, it is easy to see how a local agreement could do this. If both sides are willing, they can easily do it. Since Putin has refused, it can only mean he does not want the plant to be made properly safe. But he doesn't want a nuclear disaster either. He wants a threat to make to set fools scurrying to demand giving him whatever he wants.