Technology Senate GOP introduce bill to end 'warrant-proof' encryption, end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is targeted Xeni Jardin
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happy mutants Abolish Silicon Valley: memoir of a driven startup founder who became an anti-capitalist activist Cory Doctorow
Science Grad student proves one of Darwin's theories almost 140 years after his death David Pescovitz
Dungeons & Dragons Revolutionize your next Dungeons & Dragons game with this anticapitalist / anarchist campaign guide Thom Dunn
Business Ireland suspects Russia is trying to crack transatlantic fiber-optic ocean bed cables Xeni Jardin
Technology Google and other tech giants want Hong Kong alternative after U.S. blocks undersea cable Xeni Jardin
politics Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow
Business Former Google exec says he was pushed out after he lobbied for human rights program Xeni Jardin
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
