Looking through the list on Mozilla's list of WoSign Issues it looks like WoSign not just issued

• long lived SHA1 certs
• identical certs other than the notbefore date
• certs with identical serials
• certs that violate the "Baseline Requirements"
• certs using unapproved cryptographic settings

but their setup also violated a number of other best practices and security measures too (such as unpatched servers). However I'll note that on the political front folks were unhappy that the Startcom acquisition wasn't made public earlier. Outside that though there are a lot of different technical complaints.

CA's have been dropped in the past for non-political problems (see DigiNotar) so I don't think it's fair to attribute WoSign's woes to purely political motivations as you alleged.

It's a bit more elaborate because if you need a visa (citizens of some countries can get visa waivers) at application time you MIGHT be asked to give up all this extra information if they deem it necessary. It's not clear that every visa application will force the applicant to cough up all this information right away or only if you trigger some extra checks required tripwire (e.g. "name contains non-even number of letters, full information required"). Also note this presumably happens once per visa so if your visa lasts a year and you were pressured into having to do this you'll have done it once for that year even though you may fly many times...

No, News Corp has been doing this for years. The reason is Murdoch thinks Google and Google News specifically is killing the news industry, and that the iPad will save it (or at least he thought that a few years ago). It's pure inter-corporate warfare being played out through manipulation of public opinion. The WSJ in particular are experts at it.

It's hard to know for sure because the account that posted the parent comment seems to be new and it's unclear who the commenter is in real life but this seems to be a well written complaint about the outcome of WebAssembly. I did a quick search and it doesn't immediately look like a copy/paste of critique from elsewhere so it seems a shame to see this slip below the waves. Sadly, I suspect few will see it because this story has passed the "breaking news" point...

Here's a blog post from Dan Luu on the topic of "Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend". Turns out there's a lot to do in a lot of places...

Software development can be a high skilled job but entry level skills can be obtained in months, which is not coincidentally, how much training time seems to be involved with learning to be a long haul truck driver in the USA (I see quotes of about two months of full time study for the formal exam around the internet so maybe call that three months when employer training time is included). Three months of full time study isn't going to make you a well paid programmer but that's plenty of time to learn basic web development skills, and another two or three after that with a good course will get someone writing basic CRUD business web apps if they want to. Of course, it's the start of the journey, but now think how many clueless developers you've encountered who are earning good money.

Can the software development world absorb millions of new developers? Sure, it has done in the past, think dotcom boom. Trucking won't disappear over night, nor will taxi drivers, if only because of limited capacity to upgrade vehicle fleets even assuming the technology becomes perfect (which it isn't), and not all drivers will become software developers.

Can you give some specific examples?

Well, Ataturk tried to forcibly reform Turkey into a western style country through a dictatorship. He was always in favour of democracy ... in the future, knowing full well that he hadn't built any real support amongst the people for his plan but betting that over time the culture would change. Seems like he lost that bet.

EU law was written by the EU. Article 50 is a mess, there was an interview with the guy who wrote it where he said he didn't bother doing it properly because he thought it'd never be used.

Original article author here: you have summarized the whole thing better than I did.