"Direct File was not brought down by runaway costs or technical fiascoes. It was murdered for no good reason at all, a victim of reactionary ideology and corporate self-interest." defector.com/free-easy-de...
Free, Easy, Dead: The Difficul...
ryan cooper
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2026-05-20 15:59:44 UTC
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