Recycling is good, but the "circular economy" is not just recycling -- it means that people can never own anything, only rent everything from a company.

It could be efficient, even reduce pollution. But unless we are very careful about it, it will leave you with no autonomy.

A subservient Hong Kong judge has excluded all the pro-democracy legislators from the Hong Kong parliament. In the future, supporters of democracy will have to take their oath of office insincerely.

That is legitimate. Pledging loyalty to a tyrant is wrong only if you mean it.

Economists are gradually rejecting the dogma that business-dominated globalization is good for society.

I've posted many times about why it is not, including here. The logic for globalization disregarded its side effects, including the lost of democracy.

Australia is planning to force messaging companies to decrypt customers' messages, with no specific rule about how to do that. Perhaps by not really encrypting messages at all.

I have a bad feeling that a requirement is coming to make every computer a jail.

The troll's proposed FBI head has a bad record of supporting more surveillance. Net Neutrality No, AT&T, Comcast, And Verizon Are Not Suddenly In Favor Of Net Neutrality. They are covering up how they have fought against it, and proposing ways to implement net neutrality that can't work.