#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

#5yrsago Here’s the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on #AIAndSecurity https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens

#5yrsago #ZephyrTeachout wins the New York Times’s endorsement for Attorney General of New York State https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/zephyr-teachout-new-york-attorney-general.html

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#5yrsago When #ZephyrTeachout is elected New York Attorney General, she’s gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/zephyr-teachout-is-running-for-attorney-general-but-her-real-target-is-trump.html

#5yrsago When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0-EXEC-SUMMARY_Oxygen_of_Amplification_DS.pdf

#5yrsago #WellsFargo: we stole houses and we’re being investigated for dirty low-income housing credits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/wells-fargo-faces-u-s-probe-on-low-income-tax-credit-purchases

#1yrago A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented #indenture https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose

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At the end of *Break 'Em Up,* #ZephyrTeachout's outstanding 2020 book on #monopolies, Teachout has some choice words for "#consumerism" as a theory of change. She writes that if you're on your way to a protest against a new #Amazon warehouse but you never make it because you waste too much time looking for a mom-and-pop stationers to sell you a marker to write your protest sign, Amazon wins:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

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#SafiyaNoble #ZephyrTeachout #google #racism

“Break ’Em Up”: As #DOJ Targets #Google, #ZephyrTeachout Urges #Breakup of More #BigTech #Monopolies
"It is an incredibly important #lawsuit, and it is clearly just the beginning of what should be a series of both lawsuits at the federal and state level — keep your eyes on the states — and legislation to deal with this incredible #democratic crisis we have of #BigTech really becoming a form of private, for-profit government that is taking over so many parts of our lives."
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/21/zephyr_teachout_google_antitrust_big_tech