#10yrsago Farcical wishlist from Canada’s copyright/pharma lobby: warrantless search, Canadian SOPA, jail time for downloaders, public subsidy of copyright enforcement web.archive.org/web/2012061016… 6/
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 first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
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My latest @Medium column is "Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism"
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Here's a media literacy rule of thumb: any time you hear about how the courts have done something outrageous and absurd to some poor, long-suffering, gigantic, wildly profitable corporation...*dig deeper*. 1/
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The canonical example is the "McDonald's Hot Coffee Story" (aka *Liebeck v. McDonald's*). You know, that time an old lady got burned by her McDonald's coffee and sued for for $2.7 million?! Most people heard about it - and they heard it for a reason.