The troll told some federal agencies to return to the senate their copies of the secret Senate report on CIA torture. This is part of a plan to destroy it and make sure that its conclusions are forgotten.

This would be impossible if the report had been published, as it should have been.

The troll tried to eliminate US sanctions against Russia as soon as he got into office. The effort was blocked by some employees at the State Department.

They were joined by SCROTUS, which supports the neocons that want too much hostility with Russia.

In the US, people convicted for having copies of child pornography tend to get longer prison sentences than those convicted of having sex with children.

Mere possession of child pornography should not be a crime at all. To prosecute people for possessing something published, no matter what it may be, is a big threat to human rights.

Journalist Mohamed Adan Dirir was imprisoned in Somaliland for asking an inconvenient question in a press conference.

Somaliland is a part of what was once Somalia. It avoids the Islamist terrorism that plagues most of Somalia, but that doesn't mean human rights are respected.

Raimundos Oki, a journalist in East Timor, has been found not guilty of defamation.

It is an injustice to make defamation a crime, because that chills journalism. The prosecutors seem to be trying to achieve that very result.