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  • Friendly fraud Facebook sued for ripping off kids Mark Frauenfelder
  • Copyfight Raising legal funds to defend an online sf shared world that's been stolen by a Russian trademark troll Cory Doctorow
  • algorithmic bureaucracy Getting deplatformed from Apple. “Your account has been permanently disabled. There is nothing else you can do, there is no escalation path.” Mark Frauenfelder
  • elections Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow
  • facebook Facebook never delivered its "Clear History" feature Cory Doctorow
  • mistakes Man jailed for 2 years after DDOSing telescope forum that banned him Rob Beschizza
  • Technology Facebook says it never sells your data but these internal documents show exactly how much they value your data in dollars Xeni Jardin
  • Copyfight Beto O'Rourke was in the Cult of the Dead Cow and his t-files are still online Cory Doctorow
  • gop White supremacy, minus gerrymandering: California GOP reduced to "third party status" Cory Doctorow
  • authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn
  • immigration The American right loves forms, paperwork and other bureaucracy Cory Doctorow
  • corruption The growth of Jamaican phone-scamming caused a crime-wave and martial law in Montego Bay Cory Doctorow
  • security Dropbox has some genuinely great security reporting guidelines, but reserves the right to jail you if you disagree Cory Doctorow
  • late stage capitalism Morgan Stanley, with a long rapsheet for corporate crimes, says Jeremy Corbyn holding them to account would hurt them worse than the worst Brexit Cory Doctorow
  • law Religious fanatics go to the Supreme Court for the First Amendment right to trick women into bearing unwanted children Cory Doctorow
  • late stage capitalism "Court guardians" kidnap old people, sell all their stuff, doom victims to pharmaceutical oblivion in institutions Cory Doctorow
  • Business Mafia money-launderer listed his profession as "fraudster" with UK companies register Cory Doctorow
  • privacy India's controversial national ID scheme leaks fraud-friendly data for 130,000,000 people Cory Doctorow
  • unfortunate events $12,000-a-ticket luxury Fyre Festival in Bahamas descends into a Lord of the Flies dystopia Mark Frauenfelder
  • fraud Restoration revealed 1920s roulette table was rigged Rob Beschizza

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