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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

16 Apr

Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook; $100m deli made $35k in 2019/20; "Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1; People's Choice Communications; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/whe…

#Pluralistic

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I'm appearing at the FITC conference next Tuesday!

* Panel: "Intersection: Seeing Our Failures from the Future"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

* Keynote: "Interop: Self-Determination vs. Dystopia"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1383060553988337671

Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1383060553988337671

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

16 Apr

@GetSpectrum

The Worst-ISP-in-America competition is such a stiffly contested race that the country's monopolist ISPs have to share the title.

Today is Friday, which means that @GetSpectrum is the Shit-King Pro-Tem of The American Information Superhighway.

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What's so bad about Charter, you ask? Surely a company whose CEO is the fourth-highest-paid exec in America must be a truly wonderful place to work and a fabulous company to do business with!

msn.com/en-us/tv/news/…

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Tom "$38.8 Million/Year" Rutledge is the guy who decreed at the start of the pandemic that EVEN THOSE EMPLOYEES who could do their jobs from home had to come to work and risk lethal infections:

pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

16 Apr

Corporate America's great and good are shocked - shocked! - at the spectacle of GOP legislature adopting nakedly discriminatory voter-suppression laws. They have spoken out and even taken some high-profile actions to punish states that are adopting these laws.

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https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1382392137279426560

These actions have been greeted with healthy skepticism from people who've observed corporate America's longstanding indifference to - and support of - institutional racism and voter suppression.

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1382392137279426560

How could it be otherwise? The path to maximum corporate profitability runs right through race- and gender-justice, workplace health and safety standards, and environmental protections.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

16 Apr

If there's one thing we've learned during the lockdown, where the stock market soared even as economic activity (making and buying stuff) cratered, it's that the finance economy is totally decoupled from the real economy.

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Seen in that light, the Gamestop and other meme-stock/stonks bull runs were just more of the same: the movements of the market's fickle, questing line are based on random chance and manipulation, like the movement of the ball on a roulette wheel.

pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…

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It's a casino.

It's a rigged casino.

It's a rigged casino whose existence depends on money-laundering, fraud and other crime.

Which is the only explanation for Your Hometown Deli, a sandwich shop in New Jersey that went public in 2019 and boasts a market cap of $100m.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

16 Apr

@digitalrightsie

Did your data get breached by Facebook in its vast, ghastly, 500,000,000 person valdez? The lovely folks at @digitalrightsie are suing Facebook under the #GDPR for money damages and they'd like to sign you up to be part of the lawsuit.

digitalrights.ie/facebook/

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You're eligible if you live in the EU and your data was leaked. And, thanks to the GDPR, your participation in the legal action could result in Facebook being on the hook for real cash damages.

digitalfreedomfund.org/the-power-of-c…

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A successful mass-action against Facebook with monetary damages will be a game-changer. That's because the data that Facebook gathers on us is very nearly worthless, and the company's vast profits depend on even more vast collection and cheap, reckless, sloppy data-handling.

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