Cory Doctorow

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Blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. Co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and proponent of Creative Commons.

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Book 2022

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

by Cory Doctorow and Prof Rebecca Giblin

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Tweet Aug 12, 2023

The vast majority of America's debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely

by Cory Doctorow

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Tweet Jun 7, 2023

Big Tech steals from the news, but what it steals is *money*, not *content*. Talking about the news, excerpting it, linking to it, quoting it - these are all beneficial, normal news activities. If you can't talk about the news, it's not news - it's a

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Article May 27, 2023

Ideas Lying Around

by Cory Doctorow

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Book Apr 25, 2023

Red Team Blues (Martin Hench)

by Cory Doctorow

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Article Apr 20, 2023

Pluralistic: Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower; Red Team Blues Chapter 1, part four (20 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

by Cory Doctorow

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Tweet Apr 8, 2023

In "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare," business researchers from @CarnegieMellon and @VTPamplin investigate goods purchased through highly targeted online ads and just plain web-searches, and conclude social media ads push overpriced junk

by Cory Doctorow

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Tweet Apr 1, 2023

It's a big day for users of @CreativeCommons images: @Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor err

by Cory Doctorow

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Article Apr 1, 2023

Pluralistic: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead

by Cory Doctorow

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Tweet Mar 29, 2023

0 The #Scholomance trilogy is @naominovik's take on a #SchoolForWizardry: It. Is. *Superb*. Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new: w

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Article Jan 23, 2023

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

by Cory Doctorow

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Article Jan 21, 2023

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification

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