Pluralistic: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (23 Feb 2023)

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Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech (10 Dec 2022)

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Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech: The end-to-end principle is good, actually.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 12 Sep 2022 Spotify is a ripoff, a Spotify exclusive

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Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive: More Chokepoint Capitalism stunt-publishing.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 07 Sep 2022 We published an Audible Exclusive about the monopolistic abuses of Audible

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How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive): The only part of "Chokepoint Capitalism" available on Audible.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2012, 2017
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Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2022

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Disney's writer wage theft, a year on: Still work to do.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2021
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Pluralistic: 07 Aug 2021

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Doordash privacywashes its war on workers: Tech rights are workers' rights.
End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 29 Apr 2021

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What the hell is "carried interest": A scam, obviously, but the real ripoff is preferential tax-treatment of capital gains.
Korea set to break the Samsung dynasty: Intergenerational wealth transfers, dynastic fortunes, and eugenic meritocracy.
Disney's writer wage-theft is far worse than reported: Allan Dean Foster was just the first to go public.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2020
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2021

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SMS security is flaming garbage: Netnumber is a perfect microcosm of telephonic uselessness.
The People's Parity Project: An antidote to corporate law.
Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony.
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Pluralistic: 19 Feb 2021

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My talks with Edward Snowden and William Gibson: Two wonderful books for your TBR.
Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol Police: A deep postmortem and legal repercussions.
How Republicans froze Texas solid: Market Lysenkoists.
Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower: Big bezzle energy.
This day in history: 2016, 2020
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