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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Dec 16, 2022 • 22 tweets • 21 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The antitrust Twilight Zone; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/sch…

#Pluralistic 1/ An altered version of Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Children.
The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer.

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Hey look at this

* The Butterfly Effect fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…

* Reimagining Democracy schneier.com/blog/archives/…

* @EFF Agrees With the @NLRB: Workers Need Protection Against Bossware eff.org/deeplinks/2022… 3/
#20yrsago The music industry owes you $20 — and you can collect web.archive.org/web/2002120608…

#20yrsago DARPA’s magic PDA web.archive.org/web/2002120200…

#20yrsago RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem” web.archive.org/web/2003011309… 4/
#15yrsago How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs web.archive.org/web/2008112305…

#15yrsago Blender-shaped baby-bath flickr.com/photos/doctoro… 5/
#15yrsago Adults warn kids off social network sites, use them themselves — Pew Internet report on search and identity web.archive.org/web/2007121806…

#15yrsago Tin pregnancies of 18th cen. London web.archive.org/web/2007121902… 6/
#15yrsago Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported — over a ten-year-old visa mistake web.archive.org/web/2007121518…

#10yrsago @bunniestudios Huang is building a laptop bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 7/
#10yrsago Disneyland Haunted Mansion in gingerbread haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index130.html

#10yrsago Google’s daily Transparency Report data-dump includes all DMCA requests policybythenumbers.googleblog.com/2012/12/more-d… 8/
#5yrsago The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren’t dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase “science-based.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt… 9/
#5yrsago Cities want to opportunistically lay fiber lines during big digs, but Koch dark money is trying to stop them wired.com/story/koch-bro…

#5yrsago Rogue One is a movie about internet freedom theverge.com/2017/12/15/167… 10/
Yesterday's threads: How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face; and more!

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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:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 12/
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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 13/
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/ 14/
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… 15/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 16/
Recent appearances:

* New Books in Public Policy (@PitPolicy):
open.spotify.com/episode/2niuM0…

* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)


* @dartsandletters:
dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep7…

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 2)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap… 17/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/sch… 18/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Plato Would Ban Ad-Blockers: He was a dick."

doctorow.medium.com/plato-would-ba… 19/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic @mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: https://mamot .fr/@pluralistic/109524956215663382 21/
Today's top sources: @YvesSmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 22/

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