Oct 8, 2021

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This day in history

2006, 2011, 2016.

#15yrsago Cheney to Bob Woodward: “That’s bullshit!” [click] https://web.archive.org/web/20061016204125/https://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/08/woodward-cheney/

#10yrsago WIPO boss: the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees…

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow

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