The USA Rights Act would limit in several ways the US government's massive surveillance of Americans.

The EFF supports it, and so should we.

In particular, it adds more requirements before the government can demand communications companies decrypt people's data — which raises the question of how much this is going on secretly now.

We must not impose censorship of statements merely because they are nasty, cruel, and hateful.

Schools are being asked to buy a brain-wave sensor that purportedly lets them monitor when students are paying attention.

Whether it works or not, it's oppressive.

A famous theater director had a habit of pestering women, asking them for sex.

As far as I can tell from this article, he didn't try to force women into sex.

When women persistently said no, he does not seem to have tried to punish them.

The most he did was ask.

He was a pest, but nothing worse than that.

Stiglitz: The power of giant companies has driven the US economy into unfairness and failure, and the political system into injustice.