This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
3 min readMar 8, 2022

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#15yrsago EFF Pioneer Award winners: Schneier, Benkler, me https://web.archive.org/web/20070309152314/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_03.php

#10yrsago ACLU sues school district for student’s social media free speech rights https://web.archive.org/web/20120307021523/https://www.startribune.com/local/141646423.html

#10yrsago HOWTO get metal through a TSA full-body scanner https://professional-troublemaker.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners/

#10yrsago Danish trade minister and ACTA booster apologise for bogus piracy numbers https://www.techdirt.com/2012/03/07/danish-trade-minister-apologizes-using-bogus-industry-numbers-to-support-pro-acta-argument/

#10yrsago Maher Arar on Canada’s pro-torture policy https://web.archive.org/web/20120612094034/http://prism-magazine.com/2012/03/torture-directive-2-0/

#5yrsago In Russia, where wife-beating is legal, socialists celebrate Women’s Day with feminist guerrilla “ads” https://globalvoices.org/2017/03/08/russian-socialists-celebrate-international-womens-day-with-guerilla-ads-on-the-subway/

#5yrsago SXSW will remove contractual immigration threats for international artists who play the show…

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