This day in history
2014, 2019.
#10yrsago Tech companies should do something about harassment, but not this https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/8/7350597/why-its-so-hard-to-stop-online-harassment
#10yrsago Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: the audiobook, read by Wil Wheaton https://craphound.com/info/2014/12/10/information-doesnt-want-to-be-free-audiobook/
#10yrsago World-beating email EULA https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/10/world-beating-email-eula/
#10yrsago Great Firewall of Cameron blocks Parliamentary committee on rendition/torture https://b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2014/12/virgin-media-blocking-website-of.html
#10yrsago Police, technology and bodycams https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/12/obamas-plan-better-policing-good-bad-and-body-cameras
#10yrsago NYC theater overrules MPAA rating for Snowden documentary https://twitter.com/tommycollison/status/541787027315101696
#5yrsago Youtube copyright trolls Adrev claim to own a homemade MIDI rendition of 1899’s Flight of the Bumblebee https://www.ghostwheel.com/2019/12/08/the-absurdity-of-youtubes-copyright-claim-system/
#5yrsago NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker’s, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-paid-mckinsey-millions-to-stem-jail-violence-instead-violence-soared#172775
#5yrsago Chinese law professor’s social media denunciation of facial recognition in the Beijing subway system https://docs.google.com/document/d/18L4FuiUjGN5Y2j_4-VnYi2U116KWEIaG4pxVp78x-ss/edit?tab=t.0
#5yrsago Distinguishing between “platforms” and “aggregators” in competition law https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/10/distinguishing-between-platforms-and-aggregators-in-competition-law/
#5yrsago Pete Buttigieg’s prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: “the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism” https://jacobin.com/2019/12/pete-buttigieg-essay-contest-bernie-sanders/
#5yrsago Amazon’s Ring surveillance doorbell leaks its customers’ home addresses, linked to their doorbell videos https://gizmodo.com/ring-s-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-su-1840312279
