This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Do the Right Thing recreated with Sesame Street toys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1s9MKDrmU

#15yrsago RIAA and Universal accused of extortion https://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/06/riaa-accused-of-extortion-and.html

#10yrsago Austerity obliterates ecology: Canadian budget to make environmental impact statements optional, class eco-groups as money-launderers http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/

#10yrsago Why the modems screamed https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-mechanics-and-meaning-of-that-ol-dial-up-modem-sound/257816/

#10yrsago John Scalzi, Charlie Stross and I explain why Tor Books went DRM-free https://www.tor.com/2012/06/04/tor-books-announces-e-book-store-doctorow-scalzi-a-stross-talk-drm-free/

#5yrsago Theresa May wants to ban crypto: here’s what that would cost, and here’s why it won’t work anyway https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/04/theresa-may-wants-to-ban-crypto-heres-what-that-would-cost-and-heres-why-it-wont-work-anyway/

#1yrago Aaron Swartz, vindicated https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#cfaa

#1yrago Capitalism’s crooked refs https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#crooked-ref