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Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.

Archived at pluralistic.net

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Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/

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EFF's banner for the save news series; the word 'NEWS' appears in pixelated, gothic script in the style of a newspaper masthead. Beneath it in four entwined circles are logos for breaking up ad-tech, ending surveillance ads, opening app stores, and end-to-end delivery. All the icons except for 'end-to-end delivery' are greyed out.

Image:
EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110538232439199341

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Cory Doctorow

2023-06-13 18:06:12

#BigTech steals from news, but it doesn't steal *content* - it steals *money*. In my @eff series "Saving the News From Big Tech," I've documented how monopolies in #AdTech and #AppStores result in vast cash transfers from news to tech, starving newsrooms and gutting reporting:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/#e2e

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Saving the News From Big Tech
Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault.
^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

Image:
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

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Hey look at this

* Company Resorts to Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage https://gizmodo.com/american-truck-simulator-billboards-target-real-drivers-1850529432

* The Social Case for Bright-Line #Antitrust Rules https://www.thesling.org/the-social-case-for-bright-line-antitrust-rules/sling.org

* #Ontario #NDP launches province-wide hearings to lower cell phone bills and bring better internet service https://www.tomrakocevicmpp.ca/telecom

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Company Resorts to Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage

Truck company Schneider National is recruiting drivers through in-game billboards on the American Truck Simulator game.

^{Nikki Main (Gizmodo)}

#antitrust #ndp #Ontario

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#10yrsago Backstage at the #HauntedMansion https://hauntedmansionbackstage.tumblr.com

#10yrsago Here’s that #Beastles album you’ve been waiting for! http://djbc.net/thebeastles/

#10yrsago #EuropeanBroadcastingUnion steps in to keep the Greek national broadcaster on the air after police shut it down https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/12/ert-shutdown-european-broadcasting-union-makeshift-studio-greece

#10yrsago “By His Things Will You Know Him,” a short story https://legacy.iftf.org/fanfutures/doctorow/

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ERT shutdown: European Broadcasting Union sets up makeshift studio

EBU provides satellite news gathering operation in car park outside Greek state broadcaster's Athens headquarters. By Lisa O'Carroll

^{Lisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)}

#10yrsago #hauntedmansion #beastles #europeanbroadcastingunion

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#5yrsago #Tanzania’s independent websites, podcasts and video channels have gone dark as the country’s new #BloggerTax goes into effect https://globalvoices.org/2018/06/13/leading-independent-websites-go-dark-as-tanzanias-blogger-tax-deadline-approaches/

#5yrsago Ranking the most influential computer security papers ever published https://mlsec.org/topnotch/

#1yrago #RegulatoryCapture https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/13/public-choice/#ajit-pai-still-terrible

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Leading independent websites go dark as Tanzania’s ‘blogger tax’ deadline approaches

"It is not only a self-censorship license but a way to become the state's tool to censor others (contributors) civic right to express."

^{Global Voices}

#1yrago #5yrsago #Tanzania #regulatorycapture #bloggertax

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Yesterday's threads: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110531360014191206

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Cory Doctorow

2023-06-12 12:58:27

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

^{Dark Delicacies}

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Recent appearances:

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (Canadaland)
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/888-how-to-save-news-media-from-our-tech-overlords/

* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPvHjvZz7l0

* This Machine Kills
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/257-red-team-blues-ft-cory-doctorow

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#888 How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords

The ad tech giants, Meta, Google, and their ilk, are, well, giants. Is Cory Doctorow the David to this Goliath? Will his plan to take down the giants work?

^Canadaland

@jamesbridle

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/certified-organic-reach/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-shitty-tech-adoption-curve-has-a-business-model-ee025ad60951

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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model

The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model. It is difficult to get a public procurement officer to understand something, when a vendor’s salary depends on his not understanding it..

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

@Medium

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I bought some of that stuff pictured there as a kid.

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