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Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing,
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Neoliberalism's starting gun went off on 1973, when a US- and UK-backed fascist military deposed Salvador Allende, the incredibly popular, democratically elected president of Chile. 1/ The coup embodied Peter
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When a new president is sworn in, they gets told a lot of secret stuff - launch codes, backup plans, etc. But one of the best-kept presidential secrets is the
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In 2013, Daniel Rigmaiden - facing life in prison for 35 counts each of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft - was offered a surprise deal by federal prosecutors.1/ They
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For avoidance of doubt, this is a steaming pile of BS. 1/https://twitter.com/robleathern/status/1320164752870510592 Here's the context. Ad Observatory is a tool that helps FB users scrape and store the ads that
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The rise and rise of terms of service is a genuinely astonishing cultural dysfunction. Think of what a bizarre pretense we all engage in, that anyone, ever, has read these
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When I think of the last 40 years of neoliberalism, I think of a game of musical chairs, in which the music's tempo steadily increases, the number of chairs rapidly
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#AdObservatory is an NYU project that enlists Facebook users to record the ads they see, building a database of the ads Facebook runs and to check whether Facebook is adhering
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In 1933, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which went on to employ 3m workers (5% of the US male workforce!) in projects whose benefit we still feel today: road-
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In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. At the time, most of the attention was on Section 512 - AKA "notice and takedown," which absolves
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The area below NYC's Union Square was once called "Book Row" - a six-block stretch boasting nearly 40 bookstores, many of them used and rare bookdealers. Today, the sole survivor
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Not only are Americans drowning in student loans they have no hope of repaying, but it's commonly understood that student debt can't be discharged in bankruptcy. 1 in 4 bankruptcies
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