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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

11 Aug

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas; IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the…

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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1425469727539798016

Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas: The Canada Variant is the most virulent "online harms" rule.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1425469727539798016

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

11 Aug

@propublica

The latest in @propublica's #SecretIRSFiles reporting is a crossover episode, combining leaked tax-returns of America's ultrawealthy with campaign contribution data to reveal the incredible return on investment the rich reaped from Trump's #TaxScam.

propublica.org/article/secret…

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If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2021/08/11/the…

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You may remember how Trump's "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (AKA the "big, beautiful tax-cut") was a shambles of amendments and annotations, whose final draft was literally covered in hand-scribbled changes that handed millions to donors.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

11 Aug

Canada's government is poised to pass a "harmful content" regulation. It's a worst-in-class mutation of a dangerous idea that's swept the globe, in which governments demand that hamfisted tech giants remove broad categories of speech - too swiftly for meaningful analysis.

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https://twitter.com/daphnehk/status/1421120217585831938

Many countries have proposed or passed rules on these lines: Australia, France, UK, Germany, India. They are all bad, but Canada's is literally the worst - as if Trudeau's Liberals sought out the most dangerous elements of each rule and combined them.

https://twitter.com/daphnehk/status/1421120217585831938

@EFF

What's in Canada's rule? @EFF's @cmcsherr and @txitua break it down.

* A requirement to remove "lawful-but-awful" speech that is allowed under Canadian law, but effectively also now banned under Canadian law;

eff.org/deeplinks/2021…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

11 Aug

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

Los Angeles, 1948: Eschewing magic in a world where everyone practices witchcraft, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a certain cursed book.
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