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Inside: American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally); and more!
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American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally): Lisa Monaco says she's gonna enforce those bullshit deferred prosecution agreements.
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#20yrsago Hilary Rosen's Speech At The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference web.archive.org/web/2002020801…
#20yrsago Al Gore actually won the election web.archive.org/web/2001111215…
#10yrsago Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory theworld.org/dispatch/news/… 3/
#10yrsago Trial of Byron Sonne, security researcher jailed for publicizing flaws in Toronto G20 security web.archive.org/web/2011111304…
#10yrsago Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/11… 4/
#10yrsago How SOPA will attack the Internet’s infrastructure and security eff.org/deeplinks/2011…
#10yrsago Silicon Valley job fair for people who want jobs in India computerworld.com/article/249877…
#10yrsago US college grads’ salaries in steep decline innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/the… 5/
#5yrsago The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!) fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roa…
#5yrsago America’s actually had worse presidential races than this one loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-… 6/
#5yrsago A Spotify bug thrashed subscribers’ drives for the past five months arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism timharford.com/2016/11/rich-t…
#1yrago Xi on interop and lock-in pluralistic.net/2020/11/12/tha… 7/
Wednesday's threads: Risk compensation considered harmful; and more!
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
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My latest @Medium column is "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere"
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