This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 7, 2024

This weekend (June 7–9), I’m in Amherst, New York to keynote the 25th Annual Media Ecology Association Convention and accept the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

#20yrsago Public Enemy’s history of copyright in hip hop https://web.archive.org/web/20040603153903/http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/20/public_enemy.html

#20yrsago TheyWorkForYou: finest advocacy web-app in the world https://web.archive.org/web/20040701081005/http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

#15yrsago Health insurers invest billions in tobacco stocks https://web.archive.org/web/20090606102236/https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=health-insurers-want-you-to-keep-sm-2009-06-03

#15yrsago Bullshit about newspapers’ future, dissected https://xark.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/the-newspaper-suicide-pact.html

#15yrsago Bad Science versus the piracy scare story https://www.badscience.net/2009/06/home-taping-didnt-kill-music/

#10yrsago Why I’m sending 200 copies of Little Brother to a high-school in Pensacola, FL https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/06/why-im-sending-200-copies-of-little-brother-to-a-high-school-in-pensacola-fl/

#10yrsago Long-term weight loss considered nearly impossible https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/06/long-term-weight-loss-considered-nearly-impossible/

#10yrsago Handbook to figure out what’s in the public domain https://web.archive.org/web/20140612000434/https://www.law.berkeley.edu/17178.htm

#5yrsago People who document evidence of violent extremism are being shut down in Youtube’s crackdown on violent extremism https://memex.craphound.com/2019/06/06/people-who-document-evidence-of-violent-extremism-are-being-shut-down-in-youtubes-crackdown-on-violent-extremism/

#5yrsago Australia’s raids on journalists signal an authoritarian turning point https://theconversation.com/why-the-raids-on-australian-media-present-a-clear-threat-to-democracy-118334

#5yrsago A mysterious nonprofit made millions suing companies to put California cancer warnings on coffee https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/the-secretive-nonprofit-that-made-millions-suing-companies-over-cancer-warnings/

#1yrago A business model for bankrupting the oil companies https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/thats-where-the-money-is/#champerty

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