This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021

#20yrsago Software Defined Radio defined https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/09/27/1420201/eric-blossom-on-gnu-radio

#10yrsago Former top US copyright bureaucrat thinks all communications/entertainment technology should be illegal until Congress approves it https://www.techdirt.com/2012/09/27/former-copyright-boss-new-technology-should-be-presumed-illegal-until-congress-says-otherwise/

#10yrsago Murdoch’s Times goes back to Google: please index us, just a little! https://www.techdirt.com/2012/09/26/rupert-murdoch-admits-defeat-now-wants-london-times-to-appear-search-results/

#5yrsago DHS says it will force everyone who’s ever immigrated to the USA to hand over social media https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/352421-dhs-planning-to-collect-social-media-info-on-all-immigrants/

#5yrsago Indigenous tribes fronting for patent trolls sue Apple https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/apple-is-being-sued-for-patent-infringement-by-a-native-american-tribe/

#5yrsago Predictably, Wells Fargo loves Equifax and suggests investing heavily in the company https://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Wells+Fargo+Upgrades+Equifax+(EFX)+to+Outperform%2C+Megabreach+Creates+Opportunity/13319550.html

#5yrsago The brilliant life and brutal death of Bassel Khartabil, killed by Assad for writing free software https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-syrian-fought-to-the-death-for-a-free-internet/

#1yrago Shelter is a toxic asset: NIMBYism is a fatal disease https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/27/hurricane-maria-started-in-1898-how-america-spent-more-than-a-century-brutalizing-puerto-rico/

#1yrago Democrats, health care monopolies, and market failures: Market health care is a fatal disease https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/27/lethal-dysfunction/#luxury-bones

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