This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Electric Slide creator foreswears DMCA, embraces Creative Commons https://web.archive.org/web/20070524091805/https://www.eff.org/legal/cases/electricslide/

#10yrsago Year of the Beasts: young adult comics/prose story of the summer when it all changed https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/22/year-of-the-beasts-young-adult-comics-prose-story-of-the-summer-when-it-all-changed/

#10yrsago Objectivist C: a selfish programming language https://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/introduction-objectivist-c

#10yrsago Congress’s vocabulary falls a full grade level in seven years https://sunlightfoundation.com/2012/05/21/grade-level-congress/

#5yrsago The FCC will not disregard anti-Net Neutrality comments left by identity-stealing bots https://www.vocativ.com/431065/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neutrality-bots/

#5yrsago How can networked protest movements hold power while staying flexible and inclusive? https://www.wired.com/2017/05/twitter-tear-gas-protest-age-social-media/

#5yrsago Thailand is losing the war on dissent, thanks to user notifications and HTTPS https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/online-censorship-and-user-notification-lessons-thailand