This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018.

This Friday (September 8) at 10hPT/17hUK, I’m livestreaming “How To Dismantle the Internet” with Intelligence Squared:

https://intelligencesquared.com/events/how-to-dismantle-the-internet-with-cory-doctorow-and-timandra-harkness/

On September 12 at 19h, I’ll be at Toronto’s Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation:

https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283

#15yrsago Anti-Scientology YouTube videos censored by the thousands https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-scientology-videos-youtube

#10yrsago Worst-paid Brits risk losing benefits for “not working enough” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough

#5yrsago It’s been a year since Equifax doxed America and nothing’s changed https://www.axios.com/2018/09/06/after-equifaxs-mega-breach-nothing-changed-1536241622

#5yrsago The most popular “privacy” tool in Apple’s Mac App Store was stealing users’ browsing history and sending it to China https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x37.html

#5yrsago Philadelphia science museum employees accused of stealing $50,000 worth of bugs…