How to save the new from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF.

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-18 14:59:46

It's no longer controversial to claim that #BigTech is a parasite on the #news business. But there's still a raging controversy over the nature of the parasitism, and, much more importantly, *what to do about it*.

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Pluralistic: How to save the new from Big Tech (18 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* On Background: Crypto Skeptic Proven Right | Against the Rules with Michael Lewis youtube.com/watch?v=q2OQcxxcPJ…

* The Cold Calculations clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden… (h/t Arnon Clark)

* #GreenNewDeal Simulator molleindustria.itch.io/green-n… (h/t Davie Callahan)

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#10yrsago Top UK government officials tamper with inquest into Brit assassinated by Russian spies in London, suppress evidence theguardian.com/world/2013/may…

#10yrsago #AssociatedPress quietly nukes its absurd #DRM-for-news system techdirt.com/2013/05/17/aps-at…

#10yrsago Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation memex.craphound.com/2013/05/18…

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#10yrsago India’s OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago People don’t care about “#NetNeutrality”: they care about “internet freedom” which is the same as “freedom” wired.com/story/net-neutrality…

#5yrsago After his viral racist rant, #AaronSchlossberg’s law office lost its lease nypost.com/2018/05/17/racist-l…

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#5yrsago Serial racist: for years, New Yorkers have been videoing their encounters with ranting racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg cnn.com/2018/05/17/us/aaron-sc…

#5yrsago War criminal #HenryKissinger: “#AI is the end of the Enlightenment” memex.craphound.com/2018/05/18…

#5yrsago Congress wants to extend the #copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years wired.com/story/congress-lates…

#1yrago A(nother) way in which #Facebook is the 21st Century's tobacco industry pluralistic.net/2022/05/18/tur…

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Yesterday's threads: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-17 17:22:45

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/fre…

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
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* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
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* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
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* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
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* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
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* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
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* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
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* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
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* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
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* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
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Recent appearances:

* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Other Silicon Valley Shenanigans (MMT Podcast)
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* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
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* Enshittification Part 2: The Mechanisms That Helped Big Digital Go Bad (@onthemedia)
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Next Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

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