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! Boing Boing

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