The EFF reports that HTTPS is making it difficult for states to impose selective censorship via filtering, which leads states to turn to demanding that companies such as Facebook carry out the censorship for them.

Unfortunately, it ends with an inadequate recommendation for companies to be "transparent" about their censorship. That's hardly enough to qualify as trying to resist.

The article also uses the term "content" to refer to publications, which ought to be avoided since it deprecates them all.

The Supreme Court rejected racist gerrymandering in North Carolina.

Republicans aimed, in their usual way, to create a handicap against Democrats.

Banning neonicotinoid pesticides will be facilitated by a report showing that other solutions do as good a job.

A Chinese student praised US freedom of political discussion as she addressed other students in graduation from a US university. She was subjected to orchestrated smears in China.

It is a shame that she undercut her defense of freedom by apologizing for it.

Britons, don't react to terrorist bombings with fear and vindictiveness!

The biggest danger to the UK comes not from the terrorists, but from tearing up their own freedom in the vain pursuit of absolute security.

George Monbiot: "Don't let psychopathic murderers suppress our common humanity."