Today's links

.ORG has been snatched from the grasp of rapacious private equity billionaires: It's not an Ethos (anymore).
Frontier deliberately denied fiber to millions: The company would have made billions, but that would have taken a decade.
Amazon and Trump officials neutered worker protection initiative: The SEC let Amazon censor a shareholder motion.
"Financial literacy" will not make poor people better off: The crisis was caused by the financially "literate"
San Francisco's legion of billionaires won't shell out of the city's covid fund: Crickets and pocket-moths from 70 out of 75 of them.
How Big Ag destroyed our food supply's resilience: Farmers:Perdue::Drivers:Uber.
Americans overwhelmingly support pandemic containment measures: But automated "exposure notification" is no substitute for labor-intensive contact tracing.
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