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Notices by Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 00:15:29 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Back in 2006, AOL tried something incredibly bold and even more incredibly *stupid*: they dumped a data-set of 20,000,000 "anonymized" search queries from 650,000 users (yes, AOL had a search engine - there used to be *lots* of search engines!):

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design#bringing-home-the-beacon

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    In conversation about 2 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink

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      Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 22:27:57 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
    in reply to
    • Mastodon

    Good to see that @Mastodon has hit pause on the new ToS and are going to revisit the offending clauses.

    https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821

    In conversation about 4 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:48:03 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
    in reply to
    • oscarfalcon

    @oscarfalcon

    I think that's premature - in the Github discussion, Eugen says that the lawyers they used were unfamiliar with this kind of community-oriented project. It's not too late to amend the ToS, and I am reasonably certain that this represents a misstep, not a deliberate attempt to foist bad terms on Mastodon users. I think we should expect that Eugen and the org will do the right thing here.

    In conversation about 16 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:47:21 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
    in reply to
    • Eugen Rochko
    • Mike Masnick ✅
    • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

    @funcrunch @Gargron Probably not, though nothing's impossible. I've also reached out to @mmasnick to see about getting the arbitration clause in the Bluesky ToS (which I didn't know about until just now) removed.

    In conversation about 16 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:47:18 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
    in reply to
    • Eugen Rochko
    • Mike Masnick ✅
    • Pax Ahimsa Gethen

    @funcrunch @Gargron @mmasnick

    Here's the "binding arbitration" tag on my blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/tag/binding-arbitration/

    In conversation about 16 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:46:46 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
    in reply to
    • Eugen Rochko

    And since mastodon.social is the flagship instance, which sets the moral example - and the workaday template - for most instances in the Fediverse, this catastrophically bad clause is likely to proliferate far and wide throughout the Fediverse, rendering most of this new, better internet unfit for use.

    Please, @Gargron, reconsider this. It is a very bad look - and worse still, it's a very, very bad example.

    In conversation about 16 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:46:45 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
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    @Gargron Also, I saw your note on the Github issue about using pro-bono counsel. If you'd like me to ask EFF's lawyers about helping Mastodon come up with fair and user-rights-preserving ToS, please email me at cory@eff.org

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 10:45:57 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
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    I am trying not to be dramatic here, but this is a deal-breaker for me - literally. I changed dentists because I wouldn't sign binding arbitration. I changed solar installers because I wouldn't sign binding arbitration.

    I could never, in good conscience, recommend that someone use a service that required binding arbitration as a condition of use - which means that as of July 1, I would no longer be able to recommend that people get an account on mastodon.social.

    In conversation about 16 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 08:59:41 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    In reading a fascinating and important discussion of the lack of a termination clause in the new Mastodon.social Terms of Service:

    https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

    I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

    These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

    In conversation about 18 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 08:59:40 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
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    No one, and I do mean NO ONE, should ever, ever, EVER agree to a binding arbitration waiver.

    These are the most grotesquely unfair contractual terms in routine use today. The potential for abuse is literally unlimited.

    Remember when a Disney World visitor died of an allergic reaction after being assured that her food order was allergen-free? Disney argued that her family couldn't sue because her husband had clicked through an arbitration waiver when signing up for a free trial of Disney Plus.

    In conversation about 18 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jun-2025 08:59:39 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow
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    I am very shocked to see this in the ToS for the flagship Mastodon instance, promulgated by the Mastodon nonprofit.

    To be clear, I think this is *much* worse than, say, requiring users of mastodon.social to agree to have their posts used to train LLMs. The harms of having your work fed to an AI are mostly hypothetical and relate to moral qualms.

    By contrast, a binding arbitration waiver would literally allow the management of mastodon.social to cause your DEATH and face no consequences.

    In conversation about 18 hours ago from mamot.fr permalink

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 23:01:20 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Rand Paul, a "#Libertarian", on being disinvited from the President's cake party:
    "This is an outrage!"

    Rand Paul, a "Libertarian," on Trump sending people to an offshore slave labor camp for life: "..."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0MbR4uHPho

    In conversation about a day ago from mamot.fr permalink

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 00:47:18 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Check out this video from about 1:15 on, as a brass band play the leftist anthem "Bella Ciao" to drown out #ProudBoy neo-Nazis who showed up at a #NoKings rally in Atlanta yesterday. Not only is it incredibly heartening, but the band SLAPS.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k

    ETA: A Tumblr user identified the band, "The Black Sheep Ensemble":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3zqlA1uhk

    In conversation about 4 days ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 09:35:23 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Signs of #NoKings #Hollywood

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 22:56:00 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

    Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

    Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

    That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

    In conversation about 6 days ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 06:22:38 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Fun fact about proving your citizenship!

    My kid was naturalized along with my wife (her mother) a couple years ago. My kid is still a minor, and cannot apply for a certificate of naturalization until she turns 18, and then it's anyone's guess how long the DOGE-neutered State Dept will take to issue her piece of paper.

    In other words, you can be naturalized as an infant and have no way to prove it until well after your 18th birthday.

    In conversation about 7 days ago from mamot.fr permalink

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 04:23:45 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    A Mexican-American friend who lives here on a Green Card and is the mother of five US citizens, including a US Army Vet and an LAPD officer, just collapsed into my arms crying, saying that she no longer drives on the freeway because she's afraid of being stopped by ICE and kidnapped.

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 03:54:01 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Any Wikipedians wanna weigh in on this? Someone's edited my bio to change the name of my grandmother's birth city on the grounds that "there is no more Leningrad." Yes, but there certainly was when she was born there:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cory_Doctorow&diff=1295262366&oldid=prev

    In conversation about 7 days ago from mamot.fr permalink
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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 12:29:55 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    Rules for sushi

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    Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 05:14:44 JST Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow

    The most Cascadia airport sign ever.

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    By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.Archived at pluralistic.netI post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.

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