“Their work amounts to what may well be the most far-reaching global censorship operation in history. It is also the least accountable”

Facebook was never prepared for the de facto position of responsibility over speech and communications they find themselves in.

Re: Elections tomorrow, in case you have not voted early.

This is not about some of the most commonly discussed issues disqualifying Trump to be president (i.e. racism, sexism, demagoguery, etc.).

This is about Trump's stance on nuclear weapons and NATO. I don't think Trump being president means nuclear war. But I do believe that his stance of these issues are yet another example of how incredibly, deeply unprepared he is to be president of the United States.

A failed coup allows a dictator to identify its enemies and get rid of them. The more paranoid will take advantage of the situation to get rid of more than just enemies, but anyone that doesn't align ideologically. With no enemies left, the dictator stays put for life.

Call me out if Erdogan leaves power alive.

That's a pretty long list of signatories.

Anyone interested in the Apple vs FBI debate or in encryption/privacy/security in general in how it relates to government and law enforcement should read this.

Two observations: 1. Politicians do not pay a price high enough for lying, so for them the math works out and it's worth lying. 2. Debates and the nation would benefit greatly from live fact checking.

The state of American politics: Inflammatory, divisive, and sometimes uninformed statements boost, rather than diminish, your chances of winning nomination.

People who have opinions that aren't based on facts but in faith (or hatred) and TV news channel that is happy to spread them. Recipe for a disastrously divided, ignorant society.

Absent from public discourse, the harm that America's lax gun policy has outside of the USA. From the article:

According to former President Felipe Calderon, who oversaw the government’s efforts to crack down on drug cartel-related violence, Mexican authorities seized over 140,000 weapons (including 84,000 high-powered assault weapons) during his term. Up to 70% of these firearms were traced back to the US. In a press conference earlier this year, Calderon lamented that “One of the main factors that allows criminals to strengthen themselves is the unlimited access to high-powered weapons, which are sold freely, and also indiscriminately, in the United States of America.”