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Inside: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

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My publisher @TorBooks and @Goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

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EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater.

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Hey look at this

* The rise of the video game union polygon.com/23485977/video…

* Chinese Students Invent Coat That Makes People Invisible to AI Cameras vice.com/en/article/88q…

* Author of Minecraft's "End Poem" gives it to the public domain theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-st… 4/

#20yrsago @EFF comments on the Broadcast Flag web.archive.org/web/2003030817…

#20yrsago Will compulsory licenses save P2P? personal.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/know… levy.pdf

#20yrsago SUVs are not healthy for children and other living things web.archive.org/web/2002121916… 5/

#10yrsago Canadian Conservative govt guts protections for 99+% of waterways, spare handful of lakes with high-cost cottages web.archive.org/web/2012120923…

#10yrsago GOP fires author of copyright reform paper arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 6/

#10yrsago Meet the new Nintendo DRM, same as the old Nintendo DRM (but stupider) arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/12…

#10yrsago Citigroup leads finance world in bullshit-generating capacity theatlantic.com/business/archi… 7/

#5yrsago Russian Orthodox Patriarch announces church-government inquiry to prove that the Tsar was killed in 1917 as part of a Jewish ritual johnhelmer.net/torquemada-mak… 8/

#5yrsago Investigation into emergency rooms shows that for-profit hospitals engage in billions in price-gouging vox.com/health-care/20… 9/

#5yrsago @SenSanders, vindicated: Senior Democrats say the GOP’s tax-plan has started a class war, and they’re going to fight back on those terms mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-… 10/

#5yrsago The father of the most hostile piece of street furniture in world history explains why he thinks he’s right to make life harder for homeless people and socializing kids cnn.com/style/article/… 11/

#5yrsago Understanding attorney-client privilege with Donald Trump Jr and Ken “Popehat” White popehat.com/2017/12/07/law… 12/

#5yrsago A free sf anthology about space travel, inequality, equity and public policy: Kim Stanley Robinson, Madeline Ashby, Eileen Gunn, Ramez Naam, Steven Barnes, Karl Schroeder and more! csi.asu.edu/books/vvev/ 13/

#1yrago A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime" pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/sol…

#1yrago IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/sol… 14/

Yesterday's threads: Raising money for Locus Magazine; and more!

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

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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:

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 19/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 20/

Recent appearances:

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 1)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap…

* @BridgeTales (with @seananmcguire)
talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/1795352/117887…

* @if_this_goes_on
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My latest Medium column is "Yes, It’s Censorship: Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal."

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