I need to start keeping a timeline or something (UPDATE, 19/12/2014: Slate did it for me! Thank you, Slate), because I figured at some point the cogs in the 24-hour outrage cycle would notice that some of us have cottoned on to their business model, and now Jessica Valenti has. Obviously the Grauniad, bastion of even-temperedness that it has ever ( Read more... )

Quoth the White House Office of the Press Secretary:However, we oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools. This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process. We urge the House to reject the Amash Amendment, and instead move forward with ( Read more... )

By now you've all probably heard about the court order that the U.S. Department of Justice served on Twitter last December, and which Twitter successfully fought to have unsealed so that it could notify the affected subscribers - among whom are Dutch entrepreneur and privacy activist Rop Gonggrijp, Icelandic parliament member Birgitta Jonsdottir, ( Read more... )