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Inside: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/

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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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Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech: The end-to-end principle is good, actually.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1601601560609529863

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Hey look at this

* FTC Sues to Block Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard vice.com/en/article/ake…

* Tech doesn't have "ecosystems," it has plantations crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/you…

* You're Being Lied to About Electric Cars motortrend.com/features/truth… (h/t Fipi Lele) 4/

#20yrsago @MPAA @FCC comments: too many howlers and fibs to count web.archive.org/web/2003120320…

#20yrsago @bruces’s decade-ahead-of-its-time librarian talk bactra.org/Sterling/Free_… 5/

#15yrsago Robot animation illustrates the rise, fall and cause of the free and open web

#15yrsago Happy 90th, Arthur C Clarke! sirarthurcclarke90.blogspot.com

#15yrsago @nokia to @w3c: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web w3.org/2007/08/video/… 6/

#10yrsago Schooling a reader who doesn’t like female, middle-aged, black pirate captains vera-invenire.tumblr.com/post/175018731…

#10yrsago Hour-by-hour look at hyper-disciplinarian charter school where kids maintain near-total silence for seven years web.archive.org/web/2012121205… 7/

#5yrsago Four things to know about the Republican plan to give trillions of dollars to the richest Americans theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#5yrsago Material culture, considered (harmful?) hillarypredko.com/kipple/1-the-t… 8/

#5yrsago @DNC’s new rules: cutting superdelegates from 715 to 315, making their votes reflect the wishes of their states theintercept.com/2017/12/09/dnc…

#5yrsago @Airbnb guests repeatedly discover hidden cameras in the homes they rent buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/p… 9/

#5yrsago Margaret Thatcher sold off public housing to create “the dignity of ownership” and today 40% of that housing is owned by gouging landlords theguardian.com/society/2017/d… 10/

#5yrsago @AjitPai made a funny: leaked video shows his presentation at the Telecom Prom where he “pretends” to be a Verizon shill gizmodo.com/leaked-video-s… 11/

#5yrsago Bigots who swore their religious beliefs would force them to divorce if Australia passed marriage equality renege on promise junkee.com/marriage-equal… 12/

#5yrsago Americans have no savings, with good reason: housing, education and health care costs are out of control, wages are stagnant, and the Fed has suppressed interest rates theweek.com/articles/74172… 13/

#1yrago Electrify: @GriffithSaul's visionary, practical program for a US clean energy transition pluralistic.net/2021/12/09/pra… 14/

Thursday's threads: One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1600829724766486529

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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."

craphound.com/shop/ 18/

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:

* Corporate Power (@privacyint)
media.privacyinternational.org/w/fKu4rZFZMCFZ…

* Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism (@zingales)
capitalisnt.com/episodes/taylo…

* Plurality and democracy with @audreyt (Liberté!)
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Recent appearances (cont'd):

* Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (@ClearerPodcast)
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