Keep pulling the thread on Cory Doctorow.
Apple and Google removed the "OG App" from their app stores at the request of Meta.
Amazon's advertising business has grown from a $32 billion business to a business worth over $50 billion.
Merchants on Amazon pay between 50% and 60% of their revenue in junk fees to the platform, according to Tim Wu of the New York Times.
In 2018, Procter & Gamble cut $200 million in advertising spending on Facebook and observed no decrease in its sales.
Uber was capitalized with $31 billion from Masayoshi Son and the Saudi royal family and subsequently lost 41 cents on every dollar for 13 years to subsidize rides and achieve market dominance.
Uber and other gig economy companies spent $225 million on California's Proposition 22 to formalize the misclassification of their workers as independent contractors.
Uber employs "algorithmic wage discrimination," where two workers are offered different wages for the same job based on the algorithm's estimation of their desperation.
The U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that works created solely by AI are not eligible for copyright protection.
In the Bernstein v. United States case, the Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully argued that source code is a form of expressive speech under the First Amendment, a ruling which the NSA did not appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 makes it a felony to modify software that is designed not to be modified, even for a lawful purpose.
Cory Doctorow believes Europe's recent shift in tech regulation focuses on dismantling the power of tech giants through measures like interoperability, rather than just regulating how they use their power.
Microsoft terminated the online accounts of the International Criminal Court, including email and working files, after the court issued a complaint against Benjamin Netanyahu.