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2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readAug 8, 2022

#20yrsago Internet Radio tax created to kill small webcasters and eliminate competition https://web.archive.org/web/20020802201718/http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/062402/index.asp

#20yrsago Webcams and life in the panopticon http://www.drive-thru.org/#85305317

#10yrsago Doonesbury has a new protagonist https://web.archive.org/web/20120802160523/https://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/07/31/609031/doonesbury/

#10yrsago https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/harry-reid-mitt-romney-didnt-pay-taxes-for-10-years/2012/07/31/gJQADXkSNX_blog.html

#10yrsago Romney’s tax-free decade What can we learn from the Aurora shooting? https://www.cnn.com/2012/07/31/opinion/schneier-aurora-aftermath/index.html

#5yrsago Bitch Doctrine: sympathy, empathy and rage from the Laurie Penny’s red pen of justice https://memex.craphound.com/2017/08/01/bitch-doctrine-sympathy-empathy-and-rage-from-the-laurie-pennys-red-pen-of-justice/

#5yrsago Amazon’s “fish antibiotics” are a way for uninsured people to buy medicine without paying for doctor’s visits https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjxwma/people-are-buying-fish-antibiotics-because-they-cant-afford-human-ones

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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