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This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readDec 7, 2022

#20yrsago EFF comments on the Broadcast Flag https://web.archive.org/web/20030308172701/https://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/eff-comments.pdf

#20yrsago Will compulsory licenses save P2P? https://personal.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/knowledge_goods/netanal levy.pdf

#20yrsago SUVs are not healthy for children and other living things https://web.archive.org/web/20021219161349/https://washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0212.mencimer.html

#10yrsago Canadian Conservative govt guts protections for 99+% of waterways, spare handful of lakes with high-cost cottages https://web.archive.org/web/20121209233709/https://oliviachow.ca/2012/10/omnibus-bill-guts-river-and-lake-protection/

#10yrsago GOP fires author of copyright reform paper https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/staffer-axed-by-republican-group-over-retracted-copyright-reform-memo/

#10yrsago Meet the new Nintendo DRM, same as the old Nintendo DRM (but stupider) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/12/wii-us-restrictive-drm-is-a-baffling-throwback/

#10yrsago Citigroup leads finance world in bullshit-generating capacity https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/citigroup-eliminates-11-000-jobs-in-historys-most-corporate-jargony-paragraph-ever/265925/

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Cory Doctorow
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