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Japan Enacts New Law With Up to 1 Year in Prison Now for Online Abuse!
Online abuse is clearly a pretty huge problem. And, unfortunately, one that doesn’t seem to have a magic bullet solution either. – I mean, you only have to spend around 20 minutes in Call of Duty lobbies to see just how hideous some people can to each other thanks to…
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Chatroom Experiment Charges You A Penny Per Character
Expensive Chat I can’t personally remember the last time I visited a chatroom. It was probably back in the days of Yahoo Chat and given that they shut that service down 7 years ago I think it is something of a testament to how the internet has changed. That is,…
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Facebook Hires 3000 Staff To Tackle Hate Speech!
Facebook is set to hire 3,000 staff members specifically to tackle hate speech, child abuse and self harm being broadcast on their site. Following substantial recent criticism of social medias failure to address the hosting of hateful or illegal material, the hiring of this substantial number of staff is a welcome…
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Report Suggests Facebook is Target Advertising the Vulnerable
Leaked documents have emerged alleging that Facebook is helping their advertisers target teenager users who are at their most vulnerable. The documents, reportedly from Facebook Australia, would suggest that the social media giant has to ability to track certain keywords in an attempt to allow their advertisers to specifically target…
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Social Medias Failure to Deal with Illegal Content is “Shameful”
A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content. Evidence was found on Facebook, Twitter and Google of such a nature that the committee has said that it found: “repeated examples of social media companies failing to remove illegal content…
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Major Facebook Outage Seems to Affect Millions
It seems that people around the world have trouble accessing their Facebook accounts and as a result, the worldwide productivity rises by 80%. Nah, I’m just kidding about that last part, but Facebook does seem to be unavailable to a lot of people. The downtime of Facebook can easily be…
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HyperX Creates Bizarre NSFW Headset Ad With Twerking Man
Advertising is most effective when it gets people talking and Kingston HyperX’s latest advertisement for their Cloud Stinger headset is sure to do that. This advertisement is probably unlike anything else you’ve seen, it might even shock you – but it is definitely worth watching. Since the video launched a…
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Twitter Sales Rumours Pick Up With Potential New Bidders
We have heard rumours before that the social media giant Twitter could be up for sale, but so far it hasn’t been sold to anyone despite previous rumours named large companies such as IBM and Verizon. Maybe that was because the right bidder or right bid didn’t come in yet.…
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Twitter Shut Down Thousands of Accounts Linked to Terrorism
When it comes to online accounts, they can be used for a lot of things. From buying your favourite DVD boxsets to catching up with family abroad, some accounts are misused and go against the site’s wishes. Governments are pressing harder on companies and social media to track down and…
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Police Looking to Help Support Victims of Online Abuse
We’ve all been online on those late nights, reading our favourite news or finding out the most up to date information about your favourite TV show when someone just doesn’t seem to have any manners. They can do anything from sending a single message to spamming your accounts with hateful…
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Facebook Messenger Can Now Get Your Letter to the President
Social media has done what many has considered impossible for years. With people all over the world connecting on a daily basis, with everything from your old school friends from years ago to celebrities that you’ll likely never meet in person. Now it looks like Facebook Messenger could even bring…
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Bar Blocks Mobile Phones to Encourage Conversations
How often do you go out only to see people sitting across from one another staring at their phones without a single word mentioned to each other? A bar in Hove, England has decided enough is enough and blocked mobile signals in an attempt to encourage conversations. Steve Tyler is the…
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BioWare Shutting Down Their Iconic Forums
BioWare is known for their games, from their tales in Baldurs Gate and Dragons Age to saving the universe in Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic. With big games and big expectations a key factor on how long a game lasts is if it is supported well, both…
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Facebook Trials its Secret Message Service in Messenger
For generations the idea of sending a message and not being able to retract it is a scary one. From the day of the first texts, people have sent messages only to realise how badly they could differ from their intended intention. With the invention of social media and instant…
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Friend Your Apartment Building or Risk Losing Your Place
Long are the days when the local newspaper had everything you needed to know about your local area, instead you find adverts on sites like Gumtree and Craigslist for everything from sofas and toys to apartments looking for housemates. So what would be wrong with finding the next place you…
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