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A 75-year-old-man is suffering from anxiety after being accused of hardcore porn piracy
The trolls harvest IPs from BitTorrent swarms, and then turn to courts who force ISPs to hand over real life identities of subscribers
TVCatchup is down and it might be down for good
It appears as though TVCatchup app and streaming service is permanently shut down.
Facebook’s promised clear history feature still doesn’t exist
Facebook promised the feature last year but still hasn’t delivered it. Many are wondering if it will ever be released.
New Zealand man, Philip Arps, pleads guilty to sharing Christchurch shooting video online – faces up to 14 years in jail
Philip Arps, a Christchurch resident, pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing the Mosque shooting video. He faces up to 14 years in jail.
Professor says he lost his job after pushing back against students having to pay to submit their own homework through new online textbook systems
It would seem though that the digital homework systems are here to stay. The advantage for the publishers is evident, as this would be the end of the used-books market.
Comedian Steven Crowder says his YouTube channel with 3.7 million subscribers could be removed due to fake copyright claims
Three bogus copyright strikes were filed against an original “Dr. Trump” parody music video in the span of a week and Crowder says that these strikes may lead to his YouTube channel being terminated.
Zuckerberg warns against government’s wanting to store their citizens data in their own countries
Data localization laws are already being enforced by the Chinese and Russian governments, however, the increasing concerns towards privacy protection have extended this trend to more democratic countries.
Journalists and activists often use Slack to communicate. Nation states and criminals are interested
Slack doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption. User’s discretion is advised.
UK: Two anti-brexit CUK party candidates step down after controversial tweets surface
Members of the pro-EU party made disparaging remarks about European citizens.
New Texas bill aims to stop Facebook and Twitter censoring content on the basis of political views
The vote in Texas this week on Senate Bill (SB) 2373 shows the relevance of this consideration
Popular UK news outlet Politicalite has Facebook page shut down
Politicalite UK writes that Facebook informed them their page had been “unpublished” – leaving the media outlet unable to reach 40,000 followers it had amassed on the global social media platform.
Twitter suspends the campaign accounts of two British MEP election candidates
Benjamin’s team and UKIP (the political party Benjamin represents) say the Twitter account suspension is an act of political censorship and election interference.