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An interoperability rule for your money: The CFPB will force banks to make it easy for you to leave.

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Cory Doctorow

2023-10-21 09:19:33

"If you don't like it, why don't you take your business elsewhere?" It's the motto of the corporate apologist, someone so Hayek-pilled that they see every purchase as a ballot cast in the only election that matters - the one where you vote with your wallet.

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Pluralistic: An interoperability rule for your money (21 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Amateur #astronomers set sights on alleged #telescope #PriceFixing conspiracy cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col… (h/t #nakedcapitalism

* Black 4.0 culturehustleusa.com/products/…

* Everything Looks Like A Nail wheresyoured.at/p/everything-l… (h/t @jkottke)

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#20yrsago Wired News publishes ridiculous story on #BroadcastFlag web.archive.org/web/2003120422…

#10yrsago Explaining America’s massive, untenable #WealthGap with video youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijns…

#10yrsago #Experian sold consumer data to #IdentityThieves’ service krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/ex…

#10yrsago Zombie Baseball Beatdown: little-leaguers versus the zompocalypse memex.craphound.com/2013/10/21…

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#5yrsago The new #Pixel phone has a bizarre, obscure “opt out” #ArbitrationWaiver memex.craphound.com/2018/10/21…

#1yrago Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let…

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Yesterday's threads: Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-10-20 10:16:17

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/rel…

#Pluralistic

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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The Internet Con

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction.

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
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