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FCC Votes for Net Neutrality
Just in case Jon forgets to put this little story in News of the Week for next week 😉 FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, […]
The Lenovo and SSL/TLS Nightmare
In under a year, two horrible incidents (that I can recall) involving SSL/TLS have made the news (I’ll place a link to the older one in the comments). As a […]
Jon Ronson on public shaming
Jon Ronson will be coming out with a new book next month entitled So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. As one of my classmates has pointed out in a previous blog […]
The ‘Reddit exodus’
Currently in the news: “… In a strange twist that perfectly illustrates the current culture-wide debate around online speech, a group of disgruntled users have begun an exodus off the […]
Utilitarian Justifications at the Grammys
Recording Academy president Neil Portnow used the Grammys as an opportunity to highlight the importance of copyright protection, using a argument you might recognize as utilitarian: “What if we’re all watching the […]
Impact of twitter’s “mass shaming” problem
This article does a great job of showing the real-life impact of online harassment in the context of “naming and shaming” people on Twitter (it focuses on people who have […]
A possible solution to toxic internet comments
Also on point to today’s online harassment discussion, Tablet Magazine is apparently trying to combat offensive comments by imposing a nominal fee to post comments to its articles. http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/2/9/8007483/tablet-magazine-comments Logistically, […]
Combating online harassment
Came across with this piece relevant to our discussion on online harassment today: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/116590-online-harassment-is-a-serious-problem.html Based on this article, it seems that government intervention may not be a good solution to […]
Online harassment and “digital rape”
I came across this article which was cited in one of our assigned readings earlier in the course and found it really interesting. http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/ It’s pretty relevant to what we […]
Keurig’s attempt to “DRM” their new coffee maker
Here is a link to the article mentioned in class today about Keurig’s attempt to “DRM” their new coffee machine and the general public dissatisfaction with this approach. http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986327/keurigs-attempt-to-drm-its-coffee-cups-totally-backfired Something […]