archive teams As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them Cory Doctorow

telco deletionists Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown Cory Doctorow

i blame shingy Yahoo Groups is being prepared for shutdown, with all stored archives to be deleted on Dec 14 Cory Doctorow

mapquest Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest Cory Doctorow

diseconomies of scale Tumblr is for sale…again Cory Doctorow

seriously fuck them Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them Cory Doctorow

female-presenting nipples Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block Cory Doctorow

tim armstrong is an idiot Verizon writes down its Yahoo/AOL assets by $4.6 billion Cory Doctorow

data scanning WSJ: Yahoo plans to scan users' messages for data to sell to advertisers Séamus Bellamy

CI$ Verizon is finally killing Compuserve Forums Cory Doctorow