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Gideon Grudo and Tyler Krome are cheap journalists. Grudo wrote the open-source story reddit revolts below, with Krome assisting. They want you to reprint, revise, repurpose, or rewrite it – without their consent. Why give away their work? Says Grudo, a former SPJ national board member… reddit is home to hundreds of millions of people who are interacting with media, posting…
Yea, this is the one terrible thing I hate about the internet in general, when it comes to learning. It breeds this kind of arrogance where, if choosing to speak, one must know exactly what they are doing, otherwise they must commit seppuku. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve deleted comments because of…
This weekend, the Neopets forums got very active. Perhaps, the most active in a long time. Neopets is a virtual pet web game. Kids play it. It’s probably the least vulgar thing you can imagine. But, if you’ve ventured into ventured into the Neopets forums over the past 24 hours, you’d see thread titles like…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Reddit, the hugely popular online community know as the ‘front page of the internet’, has dropped the hammer on five groups on its site judged to be in violation of its policy against harassing users. They include r/fatpeoplehate, a subreddit that — as the name suggests — was a place for comments about fat people, and…
In the wake of a new anti-harassment policy, Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. “Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform,” a group administrator post reads. “We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but…
here there’s Internet, there are inevitably trolls spewing hateful or threatening language — even in Sweden, with its reputation for tolerance and liberalism. But Sweden has one of the highest proportions of Internet users in the world and, like many other countries, has seen online vitriol leave digital spaces with very real consequences. Faced with anonymous online trolls,…
The Justice Department has issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Reason, a prominent libertarian publication, to unmask the identity of commenters who made alleged threats against a federal judge. In the June 2 subpoena, first published by the blog Popehat on Monday, the Justice Department orders Reason to provide a federal grand jury with…
cache hit 1364:single/related:6abeb56ae84d2f5321c752d6aa1700a7 empty On Wednesday, a Canadian 17-year-old pleaded guilty to 23 charges relating to swatting calls and other false police reports, many of which had targeted his online opponents in the video game League of Legends.According to a lengthy report by Canadian publication Tri-City News, the prosecution’s case against the Coquitlam, British Columbia teenager asserted that…
Vote manipulation. Banned journalists and YouTubers. Reddit moderators who enjoy a disproportionate amount of influence. Not all is well in the community of one of the most world’s popular video games. Over the past few weeks, the Reddit page for the game League of Legends—a vibrant community that’s home to over 670,000 subscribers—has run into…
In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes. Since then, I’ve become unfortunately all too well-versed in the debates around the over-policing of parenting, so a few weeks ago, when I was asked to participate in a radio…