This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readFeb 5, 2023

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#20yrsago PacBell and Scientology knock Kevin Burton offline https://web.archive.org/web/20030219085335/http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2003/02/04/1044497702-DMCA_Takedown_Notice_Scientology_and_PacBell.shtml

#20yrsago Brewster Kahle’s librarian rant https://web.archive.org/web/20030409204107/http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/kahle.html

#10yrsago Bogosity generators: the secret heart of science fiction https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2013/02/05/the-bogosity-generator-tool-in-science-fiction/

#10yrsago NYT, 1924: Hitler’s tamed by prison, “no longer to be feared” https://web.archive.org/web/20130206224612/http://www.retronaut.com/2013/02/hitler-tamed-by-prison/

#5yrsago Trump’s Consumer Finance Protection Board chief gives up on punishing Equifax for doxing the entire United States of America https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusive-u-s-consumer-protection-official-puts-equifax-probe-on-ice-sources-idUSKBN1FP0IZ

#5yrsago The GOP candidate who would represent a suburban Chicago district is an open Holocaust denier, white supremacist and anti-Semite https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2019/12/2/20992050/holocaust-denier-arthur-jones-candidate-republican-primary-3rd-congressional-district

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