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This day in history

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 2, 2022

2002, 2012, 2017.

#20yrago Vancouver Olympics will own words like “winter,” “2010” and “Vancouver” https://web.archive.org/web/20070305171751/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1777/125/

#10yrsago Romney finance co-chair VanderSloot makes a habit of threatening journalists https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/billionaires-bogus-legal-threats-against-bloggers-threaten-free-speech

#10yrsago Island of Guersney moots becoming a “libel haven” where rich & powerful can sue & silence critics https://anniemachon.ch/annie_machon/2012/03/a-new-threat-to-media-freedoms.html

#5yrsago Healthcare facilities widely compromised by Medjack, malware that infects medical devices to steal your information https://www.wired.com/2017/03/medical-devices-next-security-nightmare/

#5yrsago Fill Your Boots: my column on how technology could let us work like artisans and live like kings https://locusmag.com/2017/03/cory-doctorow-the-jubilee-fill-your-boots/

#5yrsago SXSW threatens to narc musicians out to immigration authorities if they play unauthorized gigs https://www.sxsw.com/sxsw-statement-performance-agreement-concerns/

#5yrsago Terms and Conditions: the bloviating cruft of the iTunes EULA combined with extraordinary comic book mashups…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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