telcoms Comcast's $1.2b/year modem-rental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves Cory Doctorow
telcoms Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% Cory Doctorow
science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow
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
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
delete facebook Videos of organs being harvested from living children are big on Facebook now Xeni Jardin
corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow
facebook Google mistakenly started handing out a reporter's cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
eff The European Copyright Directive: What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other Directive in EU history? Cory Doctorow
eu German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet "oligopoly" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Swedes! Poles! Germans! Luxembourgers! The world is depending on you to save the internet from the EU! Cory Doctorow
