Amazon apologizes for Reddit, Foursquare outage
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amazon apologized Friday for an outage of its Web-hosting service that knocked a number of companies offline, including such popular websites as Foursquare, Quora and Reddit. The...
View ArticleAaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit, accused of stealing data from MIT
Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old co-creator of popular Internet community Reddit, has been charged with stealing data from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and faces up to 35 years in prison if...
View ArticleReddit manager warns site to shut down if anti-piracy bill passes
Erik Martin, general manager of Reddit, one of the Internet’s most popular community-driven media websites, said in a recent post that independent experts have told the site that if the Stop Online...
View ArticleYoung Turks: Reddit is the Internet’s new activist hotbed
In a segment broadcast Friday night, Current TV’s “The Young Turks” hosts took a look at social media forum Reddit, which has recently become a flashpoint for resistance to the Stop Online Piracy Act...
View ArticleReddit to go dark Jan. 18 in protest of piracy bill
One of the most popular websites in the world, the heavily-trafficked social media forum Reddit.com, has announced that it will go dark on January 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)....
View ArticleColbert provides alternative content for sites in SOPA blackout
Wednesday night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert turned his attention to the Internet blackouts protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act, which would grant the...
View ArticleGay gamers can now use the term ‘gaymer’ without fear of legal action
A legal battle between a Reddit forum and a gay blogger has resulted in a trademark claim on the word “gaymer” being abandoned. Blogger Chris Vizzini founded the website gaymer.org to represent LGBT...
View ArticleNASA and Reddit encourage 7-year-old Dexter Walters to seek space
Dexter Walters, a 7-year-old from Britain, heard earlier this year that a Dutch NGO was looking for applicants to start the first human colony on Mars. Fascinated by space, but too young to reasonably...
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Glenn Greenwald takes to Reddit to talk about Edward Snowden and the NSA
By David Holmes On October 1, 2013At their best, Reddit’s Ask Me Anything threads (AMA’s) are a form of cultural discourse that would make Socrates proud, and today we witnessed one of the most...
View ArticleReddit co-founder tells Joe Rogan: Cable companies about to ‘f*ck up’ the...
The Internet faces an existential threat from the cable companies that provide service to millions of Americans, said the founder of Reddit.com. Web entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian appeared last week on...
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