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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026

It's a strange irony that in this moment when so many of us are struggling to "de-Google" our lives, a forcible, sudden de-Googling amounts to a sort of digital death penalty: www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/t... 5/

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A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. (Published 2022)

Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026

In a world dominated by tech monopolies, duopolies and cartels, there's every reason in the world to seek protection and insulation from these companies that are "too big to care" - and yet, the very same dominance that makes these companies such a danger also makes them indispensable. 6/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026

Take "ICE Block," an iOS app that warns you if there's an ICE thug hunting people like you in your vicinity, which might save you from being kidnapped, disappeared, sent to a concentration camp, forced into slave labor in El Salvador, or simply murdered. 7/

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