Fascism Does Not Begin With Auschwitz. Authoritarianism Does Not Arrive With a Warning Label. And History Is Useless If We Refuse to Recognize the Patterns Until It Is Too Late.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Takaichi Sanae's pledge for "coexistence" with Japan's immigrant population has Japan's online right on the warpath.