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Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow
Business Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Wanting It Badly Is Not Enough: Real Problems For Creators Deserve Real Solutions Cory Doctorow
Copyfight World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns Cory Doctorow
class war France's next President could be an Islamophobic "Thatcherite" who wants to dismantle the social safety net Cory Doctorow
politics U.S. internet giants ask Trump to support encryption, net neutrality, and reform domestic surveillance Xeni Jardin
President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin
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