Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

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Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender": The history of digital rights, from the very beginning to this very moment.
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Object permanence: Tariffs and monopolies; Paperclip dodecahedron; Class war comix; Glenn Beck's brain; Iceland v Pirates; Dashers v apps; Leaked NYPD goon squad manual.
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Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026)

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The web is bearable with RSS: And don't forget "Reader Mode."
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Object permanence: Eyemodule x Disneyland; Scott Walker lies; Brother's demon-haunted printer; 4th Amendment luggage tape; Sanders x small donors v media; US police killings tallied.
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
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Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026)

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Deplatform yourself: Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar.
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Object permanence: "Lawer" threatens suit; Landmark metaphotos; 3DP v (c); Forced arbitration; Imperial Scott Walker; Keysigning ritual; Polyfingered robot dictaphone; DNS bug; Register of copyright damns term extension; How Anonymous decides; Christchurch quake people-finder; Minor HP disenshittification; US v developing world at WIPO; TfL v anagram tube-map; Disneyland waiting; Internet of Garbage.
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Recent appearances: Where I've been.
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Colophon: All the rest.

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Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026)

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Catch this! Email is good, actually.
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Object permanence: LDS excommunication; King Foundation v "I Have a Dream"; "Lat-stage capitalism" v "Christ, what an asshole"; Pelosi v Porter.
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Recent appearances: Where I've been.
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Pluralistic: What's a "public internet?" (25 Jun 2025)

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What's a "public internet?": You don't want Nigel Farage moderating your social media, right?
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Pluralistic: There Were Always Enshittifiers (04 Mar 2025)

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There Were Always Enshittifiers: My March, 2025 Locus Magazine column.
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Pluralistic: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) (19 Nov 2024)

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Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack.
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This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019
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Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)

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Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners": The Sea of Enshittification is rising and your online home will eventually be flooded.
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This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023
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Pluralistic: Social Quitting (09 Jan 2023)

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Social Quitting: How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves obsolete.
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Twitter Arguments

A theory of change

The kind of activism I do has a serious structural barrier: it’s esoteric. Even today, tech-policy issues are extremely niche. Indeed, tech-policy is a niche within a niche —most people have little technical knowledge and most people have little policy expertise, and the stuff I do requires that you have some of both.

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