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15 votes
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
12 votes -
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
12 votes -
Overly Attached Girlfriend officially quits YouTube
8 votes -
1993’s Doom requires a Bethesda account to play on Switch, quickly becomes an internet joke
11 votes -
The new, extremely online era of Christianity
11 votes -
As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond
7 votes -
How Finland is coping with an ageing population – online lunch clubs are the start of a remote care revolution
9 votes -
Nine easy ways to create an avatar | No Sweat Tech
11 votes -
Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
11 votes -
The internet has spent three years taking care of this guy’s plants: The subreddit r/takecareofmyplant has 11,300 members, all dedicated to, well, taking care of a plant
17 votes -
The dirty business of hosting hate online
11 votes -
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories of 4M users
15 votes -
How Pornhub and Girls Do Porn are enabling doxing and harassment
20 votes -
Lyrics website Genius.com accuses Google of lifting its content
25 votes -
The sinkhole that saved the internet: Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak
20 votes -
Burial at sea: The fall of Maddox, the internet’s first “outsider” celebrity
21 votes -
How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
35 votes -
Amazon seeks permission to launch 3,236 internet satellites
15 votes -
The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
35 votes -
Trump's popularity during the 2016 campaign was closely correlated with Internet Research Agency bot activity. Every 25,000 retweets by IRA accounts predicted a 1% increase in opinion polls for Trump.
10 votes -
Romance novelists write about sex and pleasure. On the internet that makes them targets for abuse
9 votes -
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism This statement was reportedly an initiative of the Australian Prime Minister.
9 votes -
SpaceX faces daunting challenges if it’s going to win the internet space race
8 votes -
Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet. I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does...
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet.
I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does it): You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
The quarantine message says:
It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials.
As a visitor or member, you can help moderators maintain the community by reporting and downvoting rule-breaking content.
Here's the message the admins sent them:
Dear Mods,
We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined in Reddit’s Content Policy.
The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
User reports and downvotes are an essential way that Reddit functions to moderate content. Limiting or prohibiting them prevents you from moderating your community effectively. Because of this, we are disabling your custom styling in order to restore these essential functions.
As stated in our Moderator Guidelines, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in it. Accordingly, here are the specific terms of the quarantine and the next steps we are asking from you as a mod team to resolve this situation.
Quarantine terms:
Visitors to this community will see a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing it. This messaging reminds users of the importance of reporting rule-breaking content.
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
We hope both these changes will help improve the signal around rule-breaking content and improve your ability to effectively address it.
Next steps:
You unambiguously communicate to your subscribers that violent content is unacceptable.
You communicate to your users that reporting is a core function of Reddit and is essential to maintaining the health and viability of the community.
Following that, we will continue to monitor your community, specifically looking at report rate and for patterns of rule-violating content.
Undertake any other actions you determine to reduce the amount of rule-violating content.
Following these changes, we will consider an appeal to lift the quarantine, in line with the process outlined here.
We hope that this process provides a viable way forward to restore the health of the community. However, if this situation continues to escalate, we will explore further actions, including the possible banning of your community.
Please confirm that you have received and understand this message.
109 votes -
The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function
17 votes -
Is having a business line worth it?
Does anyone have a business subscriber Internet connection? Is it worth it? I just spoke with my ISP, and for an extra $40/mo I can get a static IP address with 100mbps that I can host my own...
Does anyone have a business subscriber Internet connection? Is it worth it?
I just spoke with my ISP, and for an extra $40/mo I can get a static IP address with 100mbps that I can host my own website on. I have a virtualization server, and I've been thinking about hosting my own hobby-scale website for a while. I haven't had any luck finding rack hosting space that I'd feel comfortable using so I'm thinking about just going rogue, and operating solo. If I had a static IP address with a pipe that would allow me to host then all I'd need to do is stand up a server, register a domain, and point it at my IP address.
Other than the typical security risks, what do I need to worry about? Would the experience be worth it?
11 votes -
How information is like snacks, money, and drugs—to your brain
5 votes -
Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
8 votes -
Branding the Decentralized Web
6 votes -
Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
8 votes -
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
37 votes -
Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
17 votes -
InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
4 votes -
Webcomics: An oral history
12 votes -
Publishers that closed their comments sections made a colossal mistake
9 votes -
The Mind-Body Solution: Neal Stephenson’s Fall explores higher consciousness, the internet’s future, and virtual worldbuilding in one mind-blowing adventure.
5 votes -
'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices
11 votes -
The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet
4 votes -
'If not I, then who?’: Armed with the internet, Russia’s young people want to remake their world
10 votes -
The splinternet is growing
5 votes -
Will Starlink and other satellite networks ruin the night sky for astronomers?
4 votes -
Starlink - Low latency satellite internet
20 votes -
The boring intimacy of the all-day group chat
8 votes -
EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services
12 votes -
Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms
7 votes -
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
18 votes -
Grumpy Cat, dead at 7
25 votes -
If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
5 votes