This day in history

2012, 2017, 2021.

#10yrsago Nevada police beat the hell out of man immobilized with diabetic shock, screaming “Do not resist, motherfucker!” https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/police-beat-man-in-diabetic-shock-and-nevada-city-pays-for-it/

#10yrsago NYT publishes “infringement is theft” column and rips off another paper’s article in the same weekend https://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2012/02/08/bill-keller-new-york-times-stole-our-column-should-we-sue.aspx

#5yrsago Not just Kellyanne: Sean Spicer also repeatedly references nonexistent terrorist attack https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spicer-alleged-atlanta-terror-attack-trnd/index.html

#5yrsago UK’s Digital Economy Bill is a gift to copyright trolls, with 10 years in prison for watching TV the wrong way https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ten-years-jail-for-file-sharers-the-governments-gift-to-copyright-trolls/

#5yrsago Wikipedia policy declares the Daily Mail to be “unreliable” and not suited for citation https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website

#5yrsago Steve Bannon sunk $60M of Goldman Sachs’ money into a failed World of Warcraft goldfarming scheme…