This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2020.

#20yrsago Russian mafia recruits hackers to raid ecommerce sites https://web.archive.org/web/20011217204021/http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2784950,00.html

#15yrsago TSA wins the war on lipstick https://web.archive.org/web/20060831103530/https://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/13/air.security/index.html

#10yrsago David Cameron’s net-censorship proposal earns kudos from Chinese state media https://web.archive.org/web/20111017030407/https://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/670718/Riots-lead-to-rethink-of-Internet-freedom.aspx

#1yrago Maidan in Belarus https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#walkaway

#1yrago NYC homeless lose bathroom access https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#everybody-poops

#1yrago The CARES Shock Doctrine https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#shock-doctrine

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