This day in history

2002, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling’s Computers, Freedom and Privacy keynote https://web.archive.org/web/20020603002557/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200204/msg00191.html

#5yrsago John Deere just told the copyright office that only corporations can own property, humans can only license it https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

#1yrago EFF sues Proctorio over copyfraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#copyfraud

#1yrago Fighting FLoC is compatible with fighting monopoly https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#not-that-competition

#1yrago Moxie hacks Cellebrite https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#petard

#1yrago Banks made bank on covid overdraft charges https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#usurers

#1yrago The awesome destructive power of a billionaire https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#force-multiplier

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