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

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead' (07 Dec 2022)

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EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater.
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Pluralistic: 19 Sep 2022 How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.
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Pluralistic: 11 Jun 2021

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Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses.
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2021

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Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder.
Part 5 of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: This week on my podcast!
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Pluralistic: 15 Dec 2020

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Pornhub and payment processors: No one elected Visa and Mastercard.
Asset forfeiture is just theft: Cops steal more than robbers.
EU competition rules have real teeth: The DSA and DMA are unveiled.
Blockchain voting is bullshit: Yet another problem blockchain doesn't, can't and won't solve.
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