Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

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End of the line for video essays: America's worst copyright law keeps getting even worse.
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It's not normal: Remember when you owned stuff?
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Object permanence: Telco rats out protesters; Rogers v Net Neutrality; Jailhouse lawyer v Stingrays; Black Panther self-care.
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The mad king's digital killswitch: Every accusation is a confession.
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Object permanence: Use RSS; Lifehackers in the NYT; Banned Verminous Dickens cake; Fake CIA Fox guy; Ferris wheel offices; EFF finds printer snitch-dots; Officer Bubbles sues Youtube; Sued for criticizing Proctorio; Can I sing Happy Birthday? "Under the Poppy"; International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.
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Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! What the Eurostack is missing.
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Object permanence: Giga pudding; What Technology Wants; Blue Screens of Death; Bernie outperforming Obama; DRM in JPEGs; Dirty words are politically potent; Fury Road 8-bit side-scroller; History of web auth; Prop 22 is a scam.
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Big Tech and "captive audience venues": The digital equivalent of baseball stadiums and airport concourses.
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Canada's ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws: It's time for the "radical extremists" to have their day.
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Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification: We've got the wrong kind of middlemen.
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Colophon: All the rest.