This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago The harder you look at the DMCA, the dumber it gets https://thelookingglass.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_archive.html

#20yrago John Gilmore gives Intel hell https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/gilmoreintel.txt

#10yrsago Google search ranking is editorial in nature and qualifies for First Amendment protection https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/scholar-regulating-google-results-would-violate-first-amendment/

#5yrsago Most European millennials would join “a large-scale uprising” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/10/upri-m10.html

#5yrsago What’s inside a phone that’s designed to fit inside your rectum? https://hackaday.com/2017/05/11/tearing-down-the-boss-phone/

#5yrsago Trump plans ban on laptops in the cabins of flights from Europe https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-airlines-electronics-ban-idUSKBN1862QS

#5yrago Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police https://www.wired.com/2017/05/adrian-fish-the-stasi-archives/

#5yrsago The 2020 Census is headed for a “train wreck” thanks to Trump’s mismanagementhttps://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-threat-to-the-2020-census-000404/