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We are told that the way things are is the only way they can be, because every other model has supposedly already been tried, and all have failed. But these ideas about different ways of being and thinking and living did not all fail; rather, many of them fell, crushed by political violence and racial terror.
How bad can it be? Well, get this: the German publishing giant Axel Springer (owned by a monomaniacal Trumpist and Israel hardliner who has ordered journalists in his US news outlets to go easy on both) is suing Eyeo, makers of Adblock Plus, on the grounds that changing HTML to block an ad creates a "derivative work" of Axel Springer's web-pages:
[https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-infringes-copyright-ancient-sony-cheat-lawsuit-may-prove-pivotal-240729/](https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-infringes-copyright-ancient-sony-cheat-lawsuit-may-prove-pivotal-240729/)
A profoundly stupid case about video game cheating could transform adblocking into a copyright infringement (permalink)
Cory Doctorow
Somebody on reddit [said](https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1497953749435920391) with the 2020s going down in history as ‘the roaring WTFs’ and yeah maybe that’s the name.
Vibe Shifts in the Upper Anthropocene
Matt Webb
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