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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/03/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/i... #Pluralistic 1/

Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/03/2026

Ad-tech is fascist tech: Surveillance advertising is just surveillance. bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

A core tenet of enshittificatio: the terrible stuff we're subjected to in our digital lives is the result of foreseeable (and foreseen) policy choices, which created the enshittogenic policy environment in which the worst people's worst ideas make the most money: pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/s... 1/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/03/2026

Hey look at this * A Wild Day as Trump DOJ Settles with Live Nation/Ticketmaster, State Enforcers Balk www.bigtechontrial.com/p/a-wild-day... * Waging war for the lulz www.garbageday.email/p/waging-war... * Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court prospect.org/2026/03/09/l... 3/

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