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.ORG has been snatched from the grasp of rapacious private equity billionaires; Frontier deliberately denied fiber to millions; Amazon and Trump officials neutered worker protection initiative; "Financial literacy" will not make poor people better off; San Francisco's legion of billionaires won't shell out of the city's covid fund; How Big Ag destroyed our food supply's resilience; Americans overwhelmingly support pandemic containment measures
Pluralistic: 01 May 2020 icann-can-and-did
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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.
- This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading