Pluralistic: Podcasting "Let the Platforms Burn" (18 July 2023)


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Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)


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  • Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
  • This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023)


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Pluralistic: To save the news, ban surveillance ads (31 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: To save the news, shatter ad-tech (25 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: How to save the news from Big Tech (18 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: How tech does regulatory capture; Part 2 of the Red Team Blues serial (18 Apr 2023)


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Pluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023)


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Normalize Dark Corners!

There’s Nothing Wrong With Rolling Your Own.

A dark, rainy city alleyway, the walls daubed with graffiti.
Franck Michel/CC BY 2.0

Whenever something terrible happens on the internet — a coordinated harassment campaign on one of the big social media platforms, say, or a criminal conspiracy to traffick in child sex abuse images or promote a scammy cryptocurrency — inevitably we learn that this all took place in one of the net’s “dark corners.”

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