Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
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The Internet Archive fixes nine million broken links on Wikipedia
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Encrypting SNI: Fixing one of the core internet bugs
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The European Union versus the Internet
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Internet taxes are sweeping sub-Saharan Africa — and silencing citizens
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The Bullshit Web
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Controversial Copyright Directive approved by EU Parliament
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Tomorrow, the EU will vote on the future of the internet (again)
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Google AMP can go to hell
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YouTube, Netflix videos found to be slowed by wireless carriers
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California lawmakers pass nation’s toughest net neutrality law
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Logged off: Meet the teens who refuse to use social media
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We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
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How to design for the modern web
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How does the internet work?
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There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
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An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police"
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Deplatforming works
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Rising sea levels could knock out the Internet in 15 years
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Can society scale? If you want to understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot.
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The internet trolls have won. Sorry, there’s not much you can do
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How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
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Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
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El Paquete, Cuba's answer to digital content distribution
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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Internet publication of 3D printing files about guns: Facts and what's at stake
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Does anybody actually revisit url/page that bookmarked?
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again. When I bookmark something I thought it was useful...
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again.
When I bookmark something I thought it was useful or important. But often it turns out not the case.
Am I the only one? What do you guys do with thousands of stuff you bookmarked?
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Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
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On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
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Truth, disrupted
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Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
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On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
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Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
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What if people were paid for their data?
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
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How the Blog Broke the Web
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Intellectual dark web psyop [part 1]
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Law of new new media platforms
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Wikipedia blacked out across Europe in protest against laws that could change the internet forever
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Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams and full-speed tethering
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Solid: From Tim Berners-Lee, a project to decentralize the web
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Plant your flag, mark your territory - "If you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you"
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The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
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How community management and policing internet trolls became women's work
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Wikipedia makes the case for Google and Facebook to give back to the Commons, rather than just take
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Algeria shuts down the internet for two hours to prevent leaks and cheating on exams
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Activism and doxing: Stephen Miller, ICE and how internet platforms have no good options
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California's Net Neutrality bill has been gutted
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EU committee approves new rules that could "destroy the internet as we know it."
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Cory Doctorow: "The EU is about to end everything that's good and pure about the internet"
12 votes