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China Bans Winnie The Pooh On Social Media
China Bans Winnie The Pooh China isn’t exactly known for being a tolerant nation when it comes to politics. When you generally tend to have Premiers who keep the job for life, you can kind of understand what type of government is in control here. One of the more unusual…
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Warcraft Director Calls Production A ‘Political Minefield’
Warcraft – The Movie When the Warcraft Movie landed at cinemas in 2016, it took a bit of a beating by critics. Personally, I think the level of criticism was a little unfair. It wasn’t a bad film, but it clearly had its problems. In an interview, however, Duncan Jones,…
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US Democrats Vow To Fight For Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality We are currently approaching the first month since the FCC in America repealed the protection regulation on Net Neutrality. While to this point, admittedly, the sky hasn’t fallen, many like myself fear what is to come. Since the vote, fortunately, most of the other countries in the world…
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US Politician Calls Out Electronic Arts for “Predatory Practices”
The storm is not over yet for Electronic Arts and Star Wars Battlefront II. Regulators finally taking notice of built-in post-launch monetization schemes. This is after the rage of gamers worldwide brought negative attention to the massive AAA title. The UK, and Dutch governments are investigating whether the loot box…
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Uber Ready to Compromise to Keep London License
Ride hailing service Uber has apologized and stated that they are to make concessions to keep their license in London. Transport for London’s announcement Friday states that the company will not receive a license renewal. Stating that the company shows “a lack of corporate responsibility”. The regulatory board sees their approach…
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EFF Calls Google’s Stance on Neo-Nazis ‘Dangerous’
There is much discussion about the freedom of speech in the US after the far right demonstrations at Charlottsville, Virginia. The events led to violent clashes and the death of 32-year old paralegal Heather Hayer. Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer denigrated the victim, which resulted in the website being terminated.…
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China Make Online News Regulations Tighter
The Chinese Government has announced new regulations which will place further sanctions and restrictions on its online news content. Any organisation wishing to publish news in China must have a license and senior editors must be approved by the Chinese government. This legislation will bring online news companies into line…
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YouTube to Start ‘Fake News’ Workshops
YouTube has announced plans to start ‘workshops’ to help promote the understanding and identification of fake news. The company has revealed plans to open workshops around the UK for 13 to 18 year old as part of the Internet Citizens Day promotion. The announcement comes after recent high-profile criticisms of how internet companies…
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40% of UK Games Companies Considering Relocation in the Wake of Brexit
The UK is the sixth largest games market in the world in terms of revenues and there are quite a handful of games companies based within the country. More than 57% of these games companies rely on labor and talent from EU countries and many have found themselves considering relocation…
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Facebook Fake News Filter Campaign Launched in France
Following a fake news filter campaign similar to the initiative launched in the United States last year, Facebook is cracking down on fake news reporting in France, ahead of the presidential election to be held later in April 2017. A similar initiative by Facebook was also set up in Germany last…
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Lyft Surges to Top 10 App List after #DeleteUber Campaign
The #DeleteUber campaign raging on social media over the weekend was enough to push Lyft up on the iTunes App store in between Instagram and YouTube while pushing Uber out of the top 10 list for the first time ever. After a Twitter gaffee which many took as Uber taking…
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Russia Gearing Up to Increase Scope of its Hacking
Working with Wikileaks over the last year, Russian hackers had a big hand in undermining the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, with many attributing the election of Donald Trump to the efforts of Julian Assange’s whistleblowing organisation. Emboldened by the influence they appear to have exerted over the democratic process…
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Political Ad Claims Trump is Bad at Overwatch
Yesterday, a political ad appeared in Orlando, Florida, attacking Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump for being terrible at Blizzard’s multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch: Here's a cleaner photo of that billboard. pic.twitter.com/ZccA5eJil2 — Nidhogg (@NidtheDragon) October 14, 2016 The billboard, which points to website TrumpIsNotATeamPlayer.com, was paid for by a super…
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EU Vote Registration Website Buckles Due to “Unprecedented Demand”
Without trying to get overly political, the United Kingdom will soon hold a vote on its membership of the EU. As you can imagine, both the leave and remain campaigns have been embroiled in a heated debate which resulted in each side employing scare tactics. Clearly, this is one of…
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Hacker Claims He Controlled The Outcome Of Mexico’s Election
We hear stories and watch movies about hackers, from the news that large companies like TalkTalk have their information accessed to hacking lottery terminals, we’ve heard it all. That was until a hacker who’s currently in jail has come forward saying he was even responsible for rigging the outcome of Mexico’s…
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