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10 votes
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The splinternet is growing
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Will Starlink and other satellite networks ruin the night sky for astronomers?
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Starlink - Low latency satellite internet
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The boring intimacy of the all-day group chat
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Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms
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Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
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Grumpy Cat, dead at 7
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If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
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Group chats are making the internet fun again
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The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
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HTTP headers for the responsible developer
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"By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters" - An implementation of Borges' Library of Babel
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How the news took over reality: Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?
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A conspiracy to kill IE6
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Instagram is the new mall
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SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris
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The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her
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The loneliness epidemic
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Cox introduces 'Elite Gamer' internet fast lane
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Faceless together - What is 4chan
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It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
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Russian court fines Internet user hundreds of dollars for calling Vladimir Putin an ‘unbelievable fuckwit’
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When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible?
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Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
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Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust
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Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
12 votes -
An internet for kids: Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own
12 votes -
End the Tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again.
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State Duma passes law ‘isolating’ Russian Internet
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Russia Closes its Grip on the Internet
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Blind people can struggle to understand memes, so they made their own
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A regulatory framework for the internet
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You can never go home to GeoCities again - The new video games Hypnospace and Wrong Box offer up complicated nostalgia for the internet of yesterday
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Why there's so little left of the early internet.
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Plants and birds need privacy online, too
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Welcome to the prude internet: No more sex talk allowed
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don't take him seriously.
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Megathread: April Fools' Day 2019 on the internet
It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot...
It's already started a little, but over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. My availability tomorrow will probably be limited, so if you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
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The EU just destroyed the internet
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A YouTuber finds wholesome, heartbreaking stories behind silly VRChat avatars
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Are online travel platforms responsible for your safety?
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
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Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
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radicle - peer-to-peer source code repositories using IPFS (alpha)
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Intransigence: A social history of the internet
5 votes