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    wikipedia Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays Mark Frauenfelder
  • Internet The man in charge of Time on the Internet is retiring Thom Dunn
  • social media One way to fix social media? Look at how the US, UK, and USSR dealt with radio in the early 20th-century Thom Dunn
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  • censorship Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media Thom Dunn
  • corruption ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund Cory Doctorow
  • politics FCC commissioner: don't let the Internet fall into the UN's hands Cory Doctorow
  • social media The case for creating "public parks" on the Internet Thom Dunn
  • Post-truth is pre-fascism Excellent Atlantic article about QAnon and how it is becoming an anti-Enlightenment religion Mark Frauenfelder
  • twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow
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  • monopolism Bill Gates: if we break up Big Tech, we'll just have more bad companies Cory Doctorow
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  • happy mutants Speech Police: vital, critical look at the drive to force Big Tech to control who may speak and what they may say Cory Doctorow
  • Copyfight Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 Cory Doctorow
  • politics Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech (READ IT) Xeni Jardin
  • corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
  • surveillance China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world Cory Doctorow
  • politics Governing a decentralized internet without votes Cory Doctorow

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