Daily Links: 09/18/17 – Gov’t sues to suppress FOIA requests

• Government agencies have a new strategy for dealing with pesky citizens and journalists who ask for public records: suing them.
  (via @BillStade; RT: @Popehat)

• Washington Supreme Court continues the tradition of protecting minors from ruining their lives with sexting by ruining their lives with sex crime convictions for sexting.
  (via @radleybalko)

• New survey: Up to 72% of Scots aren’t religious. (A previous survey a couple month ago put that number at 58%.)

• Stanislav Petrov, the man who literally saved the world by averting a nuclear disaster in 1983, has died.
  (via @fark)

• Finally, French court bans couple from using ‘ñ’ in baby’s name.
  (via @associatesmind; RT: @Popehat)

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