EFF: A bill introduced in Congress would make it dangerous for sites in the US to post statements from users.

I hope they will give us a call to action soon.

I shun the term "sex trafficking" because it invites confusion.

It is defined, at least sometimes, to mean prostitution involving coerced prostitutes, or minors (based, apparently, on supposition/pretense that minors are coerced even if they aren't really coerced).

But if you look at the words "sex trafficking" themselves, they seem to cover any and all prostitution. After all, prostitution means trafficking sex.

Thus, any time I hear of a measure aimed at "sex trafficking", my first worry is that it is aimed at repressing all prostitution. I am against that.

If the measure doesn't do that, I may support it, but I wish it were described in different words that don't trigger that false alarm. It is true that many prostitutes are enslaved. Many prostitutes are subject to working conditions which cheat them. But this is hardly limited to prostitution. Enslavement is found among domestic workers, fast food workers, construction workers, farm workers, and fishing boat workers. Fast food workers are often cheated. Drivers and couriers are subject to conditions that are tantamount to cheating them.

Enslavement is a terrible injustice. Cheating workers is very bad. I am in favor of measures to stop those injustices.

But rather than trying to end them by stamping out prostitution, domestic work, fast food work, construction work, and so on, we should take effective action against enslavement and cheating of workers in all fields of work.

A judge ruled Colorado's sex offender registry law is unconstitutional: it is cruel and unusual punishment and it doesn't contribute to public safety.

"Focusing our fear on registrants points us in exactly the wrong direction — stranger danger — when the vast majority of crimes against kids are committed by someone the family knows."

ALEC is organizing a campaign to destroy public workers' unions state by state.

Sheriffs of counties near the border with Mexico are installing iris-recognition systems. Everyone they use the system on will get entered in an unaccountable private iris image database.

It should be illegal to put people in such a database unless they have done something wrong that justifies it.