police Police chief, stripped of duty, dramatically walks out of town meeting in his underwear David Pescovitz
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
uk Labour pledges universal broadband and nationwide fibre, will renationalise the farcical, terrible BT Openreach Cory Doctorow
corruption Facebook hate group investigation reveals 400 police officers, including NYPD cops, to be members Xeni Jardin
Business Axon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams, threatens to tase their credit-rating if they cancel the contract Cory Doctorow
science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants Bernie Sanders announces a farmers' right-to-repair and antitrust proposal similar to Elizabeth Warren's Cory Doctorow
eu With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13's father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow
racism Sasha Baron Cohen in disguise triggers racist townsfolk with plans for giant mosque Mark Frauenfelder
class war American towns survive by fining poor people, and use debtors' prisons to make them pay Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Small Massachusetts town decides to spend $1.4m building its own fiber, rather than paying Comcast $500K for shitty broadband Cory Doctorow
corruption America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they're ducking property tax Cory Doctorow
law America's cities sue FCC for handing billions in municipal subsidy to wireless carriers Cory Doctorow
