This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#20yrsago Macromedia CTO resigns by blog https://web.archive.org/web/20030202031646/http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/

#10yrsago Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan invests in Internet surveillance company that backstops notorious dictatorships https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/02/06/teachers_pension_plan_invests_in_internet_surveillance_firm.html

#10yrsago Website copies articles documenting scandal of disgraced cancer researcher, then uses DMCA to get the originals censored https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/site-plagiarizes-blog-posts-then-files-dmca-takedown-on-originals/

#10yrsago Games Workshop trademark bullying goes thermonuclear: now they say you can’t use “space marine” in science fiction https://web.archive.org/web/20130207002144/http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10593

#10yrsago Canadian businesses lobby for the right to infect peoples’ computers with viruses and rootkits https://web.archive.org/web/20130206170244/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6777/125/

#5yrsago Charlie Stross on the sorry state of science fictional worldbuilding https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html