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Cory Doctorow's Daily Links: Surveillance Criticism, Tech News, and Upcoming Appearances

3d ago· 11 min readenOpinion
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Summary

Cory Doctorow's daily links post covering various topics including criticism of surveillance-based approaches to child safety online (specifically targeting VPNs), plus a curated collection of interesting links about technology, politics, culture, and internet freedom. The post also includes his upcoming appearances, recent books, and other personal updates.

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Hacker NewsCory Doctorow's Daily Links: Surveillance Criticism, Tech News, and Upcoming Appearancespluralistic.net

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Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
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"The problem is, there's no such thing as 'age verification' for the internet. What we call 'age verification' is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of… utopia…" pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

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