This day in history

2012, 2021.

#10yrsago Sergei Brin on the existential crisis of the net: walled gardens + snooping governments https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/15/web-freedom-threat-google-brin

#1yrago People’s Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter works that diverts profits to its customers https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/where-it-hurts/#charter-hires-scabs

#1yrago $100m deli made $35k in 2019/20 https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/where-it-hurts/#hometown

#1yrsago Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/where-it-hurts/#sue-facebook

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).