This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJan 23, 2023

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#20yrsago New CE lobby begs to voluntarily screw customers https://web.archive.org/web/20030413214359/http://alliancefordigitalprogress.org/ADP/content/?p=WhentheTechIndustryandHollywoodCooperate

#10yrsago How the NY Daily News covered Stonewall https://www.yak.net/ian/stonewall.html

#5yrsago Trump slaps 30% tariff on imported solar-cells https://www.axios.com/2018/01/22/trump-issues-tariffs-on-imported-solar-panels-1516657913

#5yrsago Governor of Montana signs executive order banning state from doing business with non-neutral ISPs https://www.techdirt.com/2018/01/23/montana-says-it-wont-do-business-with-net-neutrality-violating-isps/

#5yrsago South Korea, gripped by suicide epidemic, criminalizes suicide-pacts https://web.archive.org/web/20180123121136/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/south-korea-to-criminalise-suicide-pacts-9887660

#5yrsago Today’s scares over smartphones are largely indistinguishable from yesterday’s technology-driven moral panics https://www.wired.com/story/demonized-smartphones-are-just-our-latest-technological-scapegoat/

#5yrsago App to record sexual consent in the blockchain will be used to discredit sexual assault survivors…

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