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2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 14, 2022

#15yrsago Walgreens marks up generics by 975% Walgreens marks up generics by 975% https://freakonomics.com/2007/03/if-crack-dealers-took-lessons-from-walgreens-they-really-would-be-rich/

#15yrsago Viacom: privacy-hating hypocrites https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/03/14/viacom-youtube-and-privacy/

#10yrsago What is a game? https://www.raphkoster.com/2012/03/13/x-isnt-a-game/

#10yrsago Copyright troll stripped of copyrights, which are to be sold to pay off its victims https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/judge-orders-failed-copyright-troll-to-forfeit-all-copyrights/

#5yrsago Mormon church uses bogus copyright claims in attempt to censor Mormonleaks https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5056058&itype=CMSID

#5yrsago Games and other online communities are societies, owed a duty of care by their owners https://vimeo.com/208372546

#5yrsago Fearing border harassment, Girl Guides of Canada cancel all trips to Trump’s America https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/canada-girl-guides-cancel-us-travel

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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