This day in history

2009, 2014, 2019.

#15yrsago Oregon Attorney General releases “copyrighted” Public Meeting Manual, will hold hearings on whether Oregon law is copyrighted https://memex.craphound.com/2009/12/02/oregon-attorney-general-releases-copyrighted-public-meeting-manual-will-hold-hearings-on-whether-oregon-law-is-copyrighted/

#15yrsago Inside the topsy-turvy world of record label royalty reporting http://www.toomuchjoy.com/?p=1397

#15yrsago Digital companies object strenuously to UK Digital Economy bill http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8390623.stm

#10yrsago When Ed Snowden met Marcus Yallow https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/02/when-ed-snowden-met-marcus-yallow/

#15yrsago Wall Street phishers show how dangerous good syntax and a good pitch can be https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/phishing-scam-that-penetrated-wall-street-just-might-work-against-you-too/

#10yrsago Nature makes all its papers free to view https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.16460

#10yrsago FBI investigating Denver cops who erased citizen video of beatdown https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/fbi-now-investigating-alleged-incident-of-dpd-use-of-excessive-force/

#10yrsago Sweden awards Snowden the “Right Livelihood” award https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/01/nsa-whistlebloewer-edward-snowden-wins-swedish-human-rights-award

#10yrsago Long-forgotten plans for a Haunted Mansion boat-ride https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-haunted-mansion-boat-ride.html

#5yrsago Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 1) https://ia803106.us.archive.org/17/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_317/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_317_-_Party_Discipline.mp3

#5yrsago Behind the One-Way Mirror: EFF’s “deep dive into corporate surveillance” https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror

#5yrsago 92-year-old’s memoir tells the forgotten story of a German official who sabotaged Nazi deportations and saved more Jews than Schindler https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/decades-after-the-holocaust-92-year-old-seattleite-finally-tells-story-of-german-who-saved-more-jews-than-schindler/

#5yrsago After Trump reversed Obama’s restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/1/20989336/private-prisons-states-bans-califonia-nevada-colorado

#5yrsago Veteran Boeing manager was transferred to 787 production; based on he saw there, he won’t fly in a Dreamliner and begs his family not to https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/john-barnett-on-why-he-wont-fly-on-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/

#5yrsago As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn’t even been filed https://memex.craphound.com/2019/12/02/as-news-outlets-were-shutting-down-for-thanksgiving-the-university-of-north-carolina-quietly-gave-white-nationalists-2-5m-to-settle-a-lawsuit-that-hadnt-even-been-filed/