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Inside: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/mal…

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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/

How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: ...and what we should do about it.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1605571680822349828

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Hey look at this

* No Nudity Allowed: Censoring Naked Yoga eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

* Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Dark Path to Extremism theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elo…

* The Great Autonomous Vehicle Capitulation wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/704170405… 4/

#15yrsago Trade court allows #Antigua to violate US #copyright nytimes.com/2007/12/22/bus…

#10yrsago New Orleans schools ban teaching Creationism, reject Texas Creationist “science” textbooks web.archive.org/web/2012122119… 5/

#10yrsago Book digitization: 1971-present blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012…

#10yrsago Go opt out of #Instagram’s bullshit #ArbitrationClause, right now consumerist.com/2012/12/21/her… 6/

#5yrsago @ArsTechnica’s @dangoodin001 is being sued by Keeper Security over an article about a defect in its password manager documentcloud.org/documents/4333…

#5yrsago #Daranide, a 1958 drug, used to be free – now it costs your insurer at least $109,500/year latimes.com/business/la-fi… 7/

#5yrsago #Trump’s #SpaceCouncil chief says space is “not a commons” and promises that it will become property of US corporations qz.com/1159540/space-… 8/

#5yrsago The majority of US workers live in “employment #monopsonies” where there is little or no #competition for workers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#5yrsago After #Grenfell, local UK governments pay the developers who chose lethal cladding to replace it web.archive.org/web/2017121310… 9/

#5yrsago “Blatantly unlawful”: companies use Facebook targeting to ensure older workers don’t see help-wanted ads propublica.org/article/facebo… 10/

#5yrsago The Australian health authority believed it had “anonymised” a data-set of patient histories, but academics were easily able to unscramble it pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/under… 11/

#5yrsago @PropOTP sues the @FBI for details on “Gravestone,” its reassuringly named secret mass-surveillance tool sparrowmedia.net/wp-content/upl… 12/

Yesterday's threads: 2023's public domain is a banger; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1605285109120245760

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
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* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
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