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Inside: No such thing as selective censorship resistance; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#Ithaca and #NYC! I'm heading your way for a zillion events from Sept 11-17. Here's a list of open-to-all #Cornell activities including two major keynotes and a public event at Cornell Tech in NYC:
adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/…
I'll also be at the #Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept 21:
brooklynbookfestival.org/event…
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Big Tech’s Big Heist - Cory Doctorow in Conversation with Adam Becker - Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book FestivalCory Doctorow
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No such thing as selective censorship resistance: Age verification, or getting rid of Big Tech (pick one).
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11521474…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-16 15:44:02
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/p… (h/t Nelson Minar)
* A Tale of Two Countries billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-…
* Apple's Assault on Standards infrequently.org/2025/09/apple… (h/t Dan Gillmor)
* Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Lamp and air humidifier with up to 4 light modes squattingslavs.org/products/ch… (h/t Bruce Sterling)
* Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité instagram.com/reel/DOoIzjokRpx… (h/t Alice)
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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Lamp and air humidifier with up to 4 light modes
Squatting Slavs STORECory Doctorow
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d to more programming memex.craphound.com/2005/09/16…
#20yrsago Finnish Culture Minister: citizens concerned about copyright are “terrorists” hietanen.typepad.com/copyfraud…
#20yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on eco-disasters on Earth and Mars theguardian.com/books/2005/sep…
#20yrsago WIPO wants to give webcasters the right to steal from public domain, Creative Commons and GPL cptech.org/wipo/15sep05letter2…
#15yrsago Astronauts’ fingernails fall off web.archive.org/web/2010091600…
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Future tense
Sarah Crown (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago UK government hands £500M copyright enforcement and censorship tab to nation’s Internet users arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#15yrsago Multinational record industry shill calls Canada’s new copyright bill “a license to steal” web.archive.org/web/2010091810…
#15yrsago Blu-Ray falls: HDCP key crack confirmed pcmag.com/archive/hdcp-master-…
#10yrsago For the first time ever, a judge has invalidated a secret Patriot Act warrant calyxinstitute.org/news/2015/f…
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Cor blimey! British ISPs must fund P2P copyright crackdown
Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Vivienne Westwood drives a tank to David Cameron’s house theguardian.com/fashion/2015/s…
#10yrsago EFF scores a giant victory for fair use and dancing babies eff.org/press/releases/importa…
#10yrsago Tim Wu joins the New York Attorney General’s office nytimes.com/2015/09/14/nyregio…
#10yrsago Australian PM Tony Abbot ousted in own-party coup theguardian.com/australia-news…
#10yrsago Ashley Madison users chose passwords like “whyareyoudoingthis” blog.cynosureprime.com/2015/09…
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Malcolm Turnbull to be Australia's new PM after ousting Tony Abbott in Liberal party vote
Lenore Taylor (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago PA Homeland Security gave names of anti-drill activists to drilling company web.archive.org/web/2010091621…
#10yrsago Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen, Donald Sutherland and Elliot Page’s vision for a better Canada leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-…
#10yrsago Step Aside, Pops: a new Hark! A Vagrant! collection that delights and dazzles memex.craphound.com/2015/09/15…
#5yrsago Obscure Texas election could change the world pluralistic.net/2020/09/15/sho…
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The Leap Manifesto
The Leap ManifestoCory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Tax havens and monopolies pluralistic.net/2020/09/15/sho…
#5yrsago Levels of Interoperability pluralistic.net/2020/09/14/the…
#5yrsago How Big Oil lied about "recyclable" plastics pluralistic.net/2020/09/14/the…
#5yrsago Board unilaterally sells Mountain Equipment "Co-op" to US private equity pluralistic.net/2020/09/16/spi…
#5yrsago Spike Lee made a David Byrne concert movie pluralistic.net/2020/09/16/spi…
#1yrago Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster pluralistic.net/2024/09/16/gam…
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Cory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: Wallet voting; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11519734…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-09-13 14:00:12
Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Ithaca: Radicalized Q&A (Cornell), Sept 16
events.cornell.edu/event/radic…
* #Ithaca: Communication Power, Policy, and Practice (Cornell), Sept 18
events.cornell.edu/event/polic…
* #Ithaca: A Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Being a Better AI Critic (Cornell), Sept 18
events.cornell.edu/event/2025-…
* #NYC: Enshittification and Renewal (Cornell Tech), Sept 19
eventbrite.com/e/enshittificat…
* #NYC: Brooklyn Book Fair, Sept 21
brooklynbookfestival.org/event…
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Enshittification and Renewal: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Boston: Enshittification with Randall Munroe (Brattle Theater), Oct 7
eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow…
* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, with Rohit Chopra, Oct 8
politics-prose.com/cory-doctor…
* #NYC: Enshittification at the Brooklyn Public Library, with Lina Khan, Oct 9
bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cory…
* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12
contraflowscifi.org/
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Cory Doctorow at The Brattle Theatre
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #NewOrleans: Enshittification at Octavia Books, Oct 12
ahttps://www.octaviabooks.com/event/enshittification-cory-doctorow
* #Chicago: Enshittification with Anand Giridharadas (Chicago Humanities), Oct 15
oldtownschool.org/concerts/202…
* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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Kara Swisher and Cory Doctorow on “Enshittification” | 10/15/2025 | Old Town School of Folk Music
www.oldtownschool.orgCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Madrid: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Cornell)
ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/…
* Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification” (Revolution.social)
youtube.com/watch?v=exvpetQRSV…
* Nerd Harder! (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
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Watch Keynote: The Enshittification of Everything | eCornell
eCornellCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: No such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Good discussion of the inherent anti-censorship benefits of decentralization.
Giving #Bluesky credit for being decentralized because of #Blacksky, when Blacksky only currently has about 2000 users out of 34 million, seems a bit generous. But heck, it's a start, right?
Good mention of the Bluesky TOS changes, but feel like it would more accurate to say AT Protocol is potentially decentralizable, rather than currently decentralized, until mass credible exit is actually a reality.