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2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readApr 20, 2022

#15yrsago Bill Gates and Free Software heckler in China https://news.zol.com.cn/54/545613.html

#15yrsago Korean Small World knockoff ride https://web.archive.org/web/20070524015149/https://blogs.nypost.com/travel/archives/2007/04/liveblogseoul_e.html

#10yrsago Leonard Cohen ex-manager/thief/lover/stalker sentenced; Cohen dry and warm throughout https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/19/leonard-cohen-former-manager-jailed

#10yrsago Inventor of the Web: The Internet is bigger than the music industry https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/04/berners-lee-dont-let-record-labels-upset-web-openness/

#10yrsago Black London firefighter beaten, tazed and charged for offering assistance to cops had his complaint buried https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/19/metropolitan-police-accused-racism-firefighter

#10yrsago How the press is distorting the Breivik trial to make video games central to the narrative https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/breivik-testifies-about-gaming-press-ignores-the-facts

#10yrsago Secret Alan Turing cryptanalysis papers released by GCHQ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17771962

#5yrsago In 1965, CIA agents were fired for staging a “free for all” food-fight in the cafeteria…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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