Yahoo's anticompetitive behavior: users of Tumblr and Flickr (and many other services owned by Yahoo) will not be allowed to use email addresses hosted by AT&T. Those whose accounts use such addresses will be cut off from them.

If the US had proper enforcement against anticompetitive behavior, as it did in the 1960s, Yahoo would be paying fines of millions of dollars a day.

New York State wants to allow thugs to carry out warrantless searches of data on drivers' phones.

The article doesn't make it clear what "resisting" consists of. Refusing to tell the thugs your password?

It won't affect me. I don't have a portable phone.

The US blocked Daniel Stenberg, free software developer and author of curl, from flying to the US. He was given no explanation, of course.

Occasionally there is a valid reason to deny someone entry to a country. But there is no excuse for being mysterious about why.

That the US so often approves a visit in advance, then turns the visitor away at the time of the flight, suggests that the US is doing the initial checks carelessly. Whatever checks they want to make, if they were competent they would make those checks when the visitor first applies, not later.

The last-minute denial inflicts a big loss, often a thousand dollars or more, for the price of nonrefundable airline tickets. It teaches them that the US government cares as much about them as about an ant.

The Thai military tyranny told YouTube to block a clip from Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

China has shut down any VPNs and has ordered app stores (such as Apple, Microsoft and Google) to remove VPN apps.

We refer to computers that impose manufacturer-controlled censorship as "jails". It is vicious and inexcusable.

These events show that the same censorship system can be exercised by states as well as the manufacturers.