08/10/18 Overnight Links

The Federalist: Why voters rated Oklahoma’s Mary Fallin the worst governor in America

Slate: China’s aggressive surveillance technology will spread beyond its borders

Foreign Policy: Ecuador’s all-seeing eye is made in China

Mises: Big Tech shows ‘Net Neutrality’ battle was about power, not ‘open internet’

Reason: TSA no longer keeping ‘quiet’ about citizen surveillance program

ACLU: Memphis police surveillance of activists is a betrayal and a reminder

EFF: EFF Amicus brief: The Privacy Act requires the FBI to delete files of its internet speech surveillance

Inverse: Cryptography may hold the key to preventing a surveillance dystopia

National Review: Memo to Google: Don’t go back to China

TAC: Yes, the press helps start wars

Also TAC: The conservative case against the death penalty

Antiwar.com: Saudi airstrike on Yemen school bus leaves at least 50 dead, mostly children

FEE: We shouldn’t send a new generation of soldiers to fight the “War on Terror”

The Nation: Who profits from our prison system?

The Week: The health dangers of “service with a smile”

The Mary Sue: Cry along with Patrick Stewart as he announces Jean-Luc Picard’s return

Author: S. Smith