Today I found an article in El País about sustainable democracy. Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, a sociology professor, suggests that liberalism is finally overtaking democracy, and that technocracy and economical interests will get their victory over the idea of equal participation for all citizens in the decision making processes for society.

I sometimes have difficulties digesting blogs about intellectual property rights. Sometimes they're completely brilliant, like Afro-IP writing about the anti-counterfeiting squad of Kenya seizing pencils for a value of $300'000. Or when IP-Tango writes about trademarks being limited to the market within which they are protected.

In a somewhat surprising move for privacy, the Korean authority of communications has decided that Facebook is not allowed to operate on Korean soil because of the privacy infringements anticipated for Korean users.

The past week has been like a tournament of DDoS-attacks against several major enterprises involved in cutting off vital services for the Wikileaks enterprise. Simultaneously, an alternative service named OpenLeaks was initiated, as was Operation Leakspin.

My party colleagues Isak Gerson and Simon Rosenqvist have both questioned the relevance of "privacy" to the information political debate.

Consider the possibility that European human rights policy took seriously children's suffering – their exposure, for example, to the evils of physical abuse, poverty, inadequate or absent health care, life in homes where domestic abuse is a norm, rather than an exception, or being placed in refugee camps barely distinguishable from concentration camps.

"We did it without any funding, without any graduate students, without much of the usual apparatus that science is done with nowadays," insists biophysicist Roman Stocker in an interview with The Register on the results of his now publicly available research results on cat slurping.

Regeringen är ense om datalagring, skriver Sydsvenskan.

In a speech by Neelie Kroes in Avignon the Commissioner for Information Society policy suggests that copyright is badly adapted to the digital environment, that convergence of media will bring much new creativity to the world and that audiences and artists are increasingly annoyed with intermediaries. She says (my emphasis)