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Why the 'Fappening' Keeps Happening
More hacked celebrity nudes have been released, which says a lot about the people posting and consuming them.
This Controversial 21-Year-Old Is Turning YouTube’s Homebrew Gun Scene Upside Down While Evading Censors
“This isn’t your granddaddy’s pipe gun.”
DeviantArt Community Worries that New Corporate Overlords Will Ruin Everything
The internet’s clearinghouse for budding artists is under new ownership, but not all of its members are sold on the idea.
The ‘Rules of the Internet’ Reflect an Online Wild West That’s Fading Away
"If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions."
Tumblr Is the Unlikely Platform for Alt-Right Infighting
The social media platform has become a veritable smorgasbord of competing reactionary interests.
A French Presidential Candidate Wants to Tax Robots to Save Human Workers
French Socialist Party candidate Benoit Hamon believes a tax on robots can offset human workers' lost wealth to automation.
Why 2016 Was the Year of the Algorithmic Timeline
2016 was the year that the likes of Instagram and Twitter decided they knew better than you what content you wanted to see in your feeds.
‘Spezgiving’: How Reddit’s CEO Tried And Failed to Troll the Trolls
“TIFU by editing some comments and creating an unnecessary controversy...”