This day in history

2011, 2016, 2020.

#10yrsago Canada’s Supreme Court: Linking isn’t libel https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/7963/index.do

#10yrsago ACLU: FBI practicing racial profiling on an “industrial scale” https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/1021/ACLU-FBI-guilty-of-industrial-scale-racial-profiling

#5yrsago Facebook’s crackdown on publishers feeds has sites paying celebs to repost https://digiday.com/media/facebook-thirsty-publishers-turn-celebrities-worm-news-feed/

#5yrsago Tory minister’s filibuster kills Turing’s law and pardons for 65,000 persecuted gay men https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/oct/21/chris-bryant-commons-plea-gay-pardon-law

#5yrsago Internet-destroying outages were caused by “amateurish” IoT malware https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

#1yrago ENDSARS https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the-robots-are-listening/#endsars

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