Cory Doctorow denounces bloated police state harassment of a Canadian band. Somehow the drummer got his hands on and leaked the Tory green plan. He was arrested. Canadian intelligence agents have compiled a 184 page file on the band that has nothing to do with that. Guilt by association, impaired sense of humor or serious efforts to catalog and criminalize activists?

The Mounties' anti-terror unit and Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's top spook agency, have a file dedicated to a harmless punk band called "The Suicide Pilots." Apparently, a grasp of irony is not a prerequisite for intelligence work in Canada -- on the other hand, that's pretty serious punk cred: the Mounties think we're terrorists. Woo!

Cory noticed a venture capitalist's blog on why the Mobil Internet still sucks.

Joi Ito, a shrewd Japanese/American venture capitalist, has written a great little blog-post about why he's not so hot to invest in the "mobile Internet." Basically, when a heavily regulated, big stupid phone company controls your "internet," then your ability to innovate and do cool stuff and make money is entirely predicated on the regulator's or the stupid phone company's willingness to allow that to happen. So if you're making money by disrupting something that matters to the phone company or one of its entrenched partners, forget about it.

Ito's long term solution is Open Spectrum and he warns against giving telcos your money.

In the short term, MVNOs like e-mobile will help drive prices down, but they are still built on an architecture that isn't really open to competition and the prices will only go down so far. What we need in the long run is open spectrum and alternatives to 3G. ... if we move over to mobile too quickly we're risking moving our game to a platform where the DNA is not what we're used to on the Internet and most importantly, putting money in the pockets of people who do not redistribute it to startups, but instead feed giant vendor ecologies instead.

Public advocacy groups Justia, PublicResource.org and other web sites are receiving cease and desist letters from the State of Oregon for trying to publish state laws.

The State of Oregon is sending out cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of Oregon laws, known as the Oregon Revised Statutes.

The position of the Legislative Counsel is that their public access obligations have been fulfilled by their web site. However, their web site has over 500,000 HTML errors, does not meet Section 508 accessibility requirements, has no metadata, as our second letter points out.

Particularly galling is the fact that Thomson West has also made a copy of these statutes and has done so without a commercial license, but the Legislative Counsel explicitly told Tim Stanley of Justia that they weren't going to send cease and desist letters to West. Evidently, it is much easier to pick on the little guys.

Ars has more details and background. It should be apparent that the "positive signs" from the 21th did not solve the problem by today.

The author of a popular cloud time lapse video has been denied ownership of his work by Google on behalf of a derivative user. This shows the absurdity of a copyright system that does not make it easy to tell who owns what but makes take down easy. That is supposed to encourage publication?

Does Oxytocin make you a sucker? A new study says yes and many see potential for abuse.

According to Zurich University researchers, a snort of oxytocin will make you continue to trust people who have betrayed you. Their intended use is to help social phobics trust good people. But marketroids everywhere are surely already looking into how they can get some. Expect it to be on offer in aerosol form by 2012, combined with a warm cookie scent.

Let's hope people don't try this because it can cause uterine contractions, aka labor, in pregnant women.