Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Amazon says only corporations own property; Violent cops' deadly victim complex; Sue your medical bully; and more!

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Amazon says only corporations own property: Everyone else is a licensor.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1321812103896788992

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Violent cops' deadly victim complex: Murderers hiding behind victims' rights laws.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1321822228015542272

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Sue your medical bully: A recipe for small-claims victory.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1321831614674952192

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#5yrsago Christ, what an asshole. theguardian.com/media/2015/oct…

#5yrsago Charity with US Characteristics: how oligarchs buy their way out of criticism csmonitor.com/Business/Rober…

#5yrsago UK police & spies to have warrantless access to your browsing history telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cr…

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#5yrsago EU Parliament votes to drop criminal charges and grant asylum to Snowden theguardian.com/us-news/2015/o…

#1yrago The Internet Archive’s massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/wea…

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#1yrago Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials reuters.com/article/us-fac…

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#1yrago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30/the…

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Yesterday's threads: RIAA's war on youtube-dl; Trump abandons supporters to freeze; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1321492002937036800

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Upcoming appearances:

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, rebootconference.org/day-two

* Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians/Texas Book Festival, Nov 12, texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Recent appearances:

* Author Stories Podcast


* The Gould Standard:
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* Attack Surface: A Reckoning
draxfiles.com/2020/10/26/sho…

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pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org)

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