politics Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Cory Doctorow
web theory Kentucky's governor insisted that investment bankers could provide broadband. He was wrong. Cory Doctorow
surveillance Contract for the Web: Tim Berners-Lee calls on world governments (and us all) to make the web a force for good Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy "visitors" for interdisciplinary one-year positions Cory Doctorow
web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow
web theory The far right is dominating the information wars through "keyword signaling" Cory Doctorow
web theory A plugin to force Twitter to respect your settings and stop showing you "top" tweets Cory Doctorow
Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow
privacy Gawker's new owners demand right to search journalists, ban encrypted email and institute dress code Cory Doctorow
web theory Major corporations blacklist ads on news stories that include the words "Trump," "racism," "gun," "Brexit," "suicide" and more Cory Doctorow
Business Chrome is patching a bug that lets sites detect and block private browsing mode, declares war on incognito-blocking Cory Doctorow
web theory Independent audit finds Facebook activity has fallen by 20% since Cambridge Analytica Cory Doctorow
