facebook Facebook will subject all of its users to "trustworthiness scores," similar to China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow

crime Fake negative reviews are a cheap way to screw up darknet drug marketplaces Cory Doctorow

china Gamified compliance: China's reputation network Huxleys to the full Orwell Cory Doctorow

Business Anonymous stock-market manipulators behind $20B+ of "mispricing" can be tracked by their writing styles Cory Doctorow

corruption George Mason economics department admits it sold hiring control to anonymous, super-rich donors Cory Doctorow

Business The Trump-funding, democracy-denying, Gawker-destroying Peter Thiel is finally no longer involved with Y Combinator Cory Doctorow

economics Crash ahoy! London real-estate prices stagnate Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Talking Walkaway with Reason Magazine Cory Doctorow

panama papers It's the criminal economy, stupid! Kathi Vian and Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Whuffie would be a terrible currency Cory Doctorow

surveillance Reputation Economy Dystopia: China's new "Citizen Scores" will rate every person in the country Cory Doctorow

economics Busting Sex Workers' Clients Increases Demand Glenn Fleishman

Letter from Serbia: we are drowning in a flood of censorship blogopenblogclosed