Category Archives: cyberbullying

Web of Lies, Web of Hate

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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually (New York)The Internet Became Less Free in 2018. Can We Fight Back? (Wired)Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Duped Advertisers, Publishers With Inflated Video Stats (Variety) My YouTube suggestions have gradually shifted these past few months to being nothing but longform music mixes, mostly ambient and downtempo, but with the occasional synthwave set thrown in. This is probably due to me playing said mixes in my office while I’m working; I’m still getting used to…

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Laughing at the Grieving

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Internet Denounces Dinesh D’Souza Over Vile Tweets On Florida Shooting Survivors (International Business Times via msn.com) The most effective social experiment in the form of a browser add-on I’ve seen is the one that changes the phrase “political correctness” to “treating people with respect.” I find these kinds of things too annoying to use myself, but whenever one of these add-ons becomes popular, I always peruse the screenshots that accompany any news stories that get written up, just so I can see examples of the…

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We Can’t Afford to *Lose

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When the Scripps Bee shuts you down on Twitter (USA Today) Elizabeth Warren slams ‘small, insecure’ Donald Trump in most fiery takedown yet (sfgate.com) It’s hard to figure out just how I feel about the Scripps National Spelling Bee becoming such a well-publicized event in recent years. There’s definitely a part of me that’s heartened by the fact that a mental competition is now so prevalent in the American consciousness. It reminds me of ESPN2’s early days, when they aired chess and Magic: the Gathering tournaments,…

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Doing Bullies’ Work For Them

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AZ gov vetoes ‘religious freedom’ bill, Ohio lawmakers abandon kindred bill (examiner.com) School will allow boy to bring My Little Pony backpack (USA Today) We liberals, or at least the majority of us, often get unfairly maligned as being some kind of “thought police” trying to tell people what they should or shouldn’t think. I think I can speak for the vast majority of liberals, and hopefully people as a whole, when I say that what goes on in your head is no one’s business…

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Even Trolling Should Have Its Limits

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‘Twilight’ Stars Rally Around Fans After Death At Comic-Con (mtv.com) I haven’t read any of the Twilight books or seen any of the movies, and I don’t have any plans to. My tastes don’t tend to go towards young adult literature to start with — I only read Harry Potter this past spring — and I’ve never been much for vampire stories (except for Poppy Z. Brite’s early work). However, I’ve been directed to several entries on Reasoning With Vampires since its launch, and from the passages…

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