This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017.

#15yrsago Trade court allows Antigua to violate US copyright https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/business/worldbusiness/22gambling.html

#10yrsago New Orleans schools ban teaching Creationism, reject Texas Creationist “science” textbooks https://web.archive.org/web/20121221192335/https://www.wwltv.com/news/Orleans-Parish-School-Board-Votes-To-Ban-Creationism-184204671.html

#10yrsago Book digitization: 1971-present https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/12/before-you-were-born-we-were-digitizing-texts/

#10yrsago Go opt out of Instagram’s bullshit arbitration clause, right now https://consumerist.com/2012/12/21/heres-how-to-opt-out-of-instagrams-new-arbitration-clause/

#5yrsago Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin is being sued by Keeper Security over an article about a defect in its password manager https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4333677-Keeper-Security-Inc-v-Goodin-et-al.html

#5yrsago Daranide, a 1958 drug, used to be free — now it costs your insurer at least $109,500/year https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drug-price-20171218-story.html

#5yrsago Trump’s Space Council chief says space is “not a commons” and promises that it will become property of US corporations…