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16 votes
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A framework for moderation - Bright lines for internet moderation don't exist, but we can get closer by defining boundaries for the gray areas
7 votes -
In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
8 votes -
8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
47 votes -
8chan is a megaphone for shooters. ‘Shut the site down,’ says its creator.
32 votes -
Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
5 votes -
The endless, invisible persuasion tactics of the internet
8 votes -
The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
7 votes -
Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions? I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better....
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
19 votes -
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
4 votes -
When having friends is more alluring than being right
14 votes -
There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
21 votes -
Hell is Other Internet People: Gretchen McCulloch’s new book unpacks the language of the internet
7 votes -
What’s your favorite status-checking website to check for “Is Site down?”
Any particular reason for the preference?
6 votes -
The internet's old guard
20 votes -
Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this?
11 votes -
The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
15 votes -
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 -
A blind man couldn't order pizza from Domino's. The company wants the US Supreme Court to say websites don't have to be accessible.
32 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 -
Google’s 4,000-word privacy policy is a secret history of the internet
7 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 -
How Verizon and a BGP optimizer knocked large parts of the internet offline today
14 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