This day in history

2013, 2018.

Tomorrow, September 6, at 7pm, I’ll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I’ll be at Toronto’s Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

#10yrsago RIP, Ann “AC” Crispin http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015419.html

#10yrsago UK censorwall bans VPNs https://torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-filter-blocks-vpns-australia-to-follow-soon-130905/

#5yrsago Don’t just fine Big Tech for abuses; instead, cut them down to size https://locusmag.com/2018/09/cory-doctorow-big-tech-we-can-do-better-than-constitutional-monarchies/

#5yrsago LA libraries replace fines for young readers with in-library “read-offs” https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-no-library-fines-20171225-story.html

#5yrsago “Free market” conservatives, aghast at Big Tech’s hostility, become overnight Roosevelt-style trustbusters https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/doj-we-will-examine-social-media-firms-that-may-be-hurting-competition/

#5yrsago This November, Florida may reverse more than a century of mass Black disenfranchisement https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/florida-voting-rights-restoration-felons/