This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Heartbreaking naivete gets techsupport worker fired https://web.archive.org/web/20050112100928/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/3/7/7720/83866

#15yrsago Open letter to Steve Jobs: put your DRM where your mouth is https://www.defectivebydesign.org/actions/open_letter/steve_jobs

#10yrsago Huxley’s fan-letter to Orwell for Nineteen Eighty-Four https://lettersofnote.com/2012/03/06/1984-v-brave-new-world/

#10yrsago More evidence that financial speculators drive crazy food-price swings https://www.wired.com/2012/03/speculation-food-prices/

#5yrsago 40% of households in Philadelphia can’t pay their water bill https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/americas-hidden-water-affordability-crisis.html

#5yrsago Porno-copyright troll behind “Prenda Law” pleads guilty to everything https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/prenda-laws-john-steele-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-money-laundering/

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