Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center Shuts Down Prison Debate Program
Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
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Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Matt Taibbi on Facebook and Google Playing the Censor
Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...A Private Investigator on Living in a Surveillance Culture
An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery
A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance
Chutzpah!
Read more...Gaius Publius: Facebook Launches TV News Feed; Fox News Prominently Featured
Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
Read more...Two Senate Democrats Call for Investigation into Smart TVs
Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...California Passes Online Privacy Law
California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...The Growth of America’s Militarized Law Enforcement System, a Product of a War Economy
The proliferation of military weapons and gear corresponds to that of para-militarized law enforcement officers.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Notes on Seymour Hersh’s Book “Reporter”
Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.
Read more...Golden State Killer Suspect Arrest Opens Floodgates for Law Enforcement Use of DNA Websites
Police are casting their DNA-matching efforts wider via genealogy websites.
Read more...The Left as the New Enemy Within: Domestic Wargaming Exercise Includes “Progressive” AntiGlobalist Baddies, Um, Terrorists
Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits
Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
Read more...Ecuador Hints It May Hand Over Assange
Assange’s luck in staying out of the hands of the US may be coming to an end.
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