Colbert 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 Article‘The Internet’ joins Reddit co-founder to annoy SOPA author with billboards
Roadside billboards claiming to have been paid for by “The Internet” went up in Texas this week, strategically placed to annoy Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), author of controversial Internet regulations that...
View ArticleRaw Story on Reddit
Over on Reddit today, senior editor Stephen Webster, managing editor Kay Steiger and I are answering questions in their IAmA section. If you’ve ever wanted to interrogate your editors here at Raw,...
View ArticleObama on Reddit: Space exploration a big priority for my administration
President Barack Obama logged into the social media website Reddit on Wednesday to participate in an “I am… ask me anything” (IAmA) thread. The thread quickly filled with questions. There were over 500...
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Reddit rises as Web’s best conversation hub
Reddit rises as Web's best conversation Near the end of August, President Obama’s campaign trail swung through a curious community. He stood before the digital crowds of Reddit.com and called out,...
View ArticleReddit blocks Gawker in controversy over ‘creepshot’ photos
Free speech row after journalist sought to reveal identity of man running forums featuring extreme adult content Blog network Gawker has found itself engaged in a vicious exchange with users of content...
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Why Shutting Down Non-Consensual Porn Matters
A few weeks ago, I was on a subway car with a woman who got into a confrontation with a man who was trying to forcibly recruit her into the porn he no doubt shares with buddies online. “Give me your...
View ArticleCongresswoman turns to Reddit for domain name seizure bill
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) has asked users of the social media website Reddit to help crowdsource a bill regarding domain name seizures for copyright infringement. Noting that the online community has...
View ArticleWarner Bros options Reddit thread to create time travel movie
Post on social news website about US marines going back in time to destroy the Roman empire optioned by film studio In the past decade Hollywood has given us movies that began life as theme-park rides,...
View ArticleApplebee’s fires waitress for exposing pastor’s ‘give God 10%’ no-tip receipt
A waitress says she was fired from her job at Applebee’s after posting a note from a pastor who refused to tip, writing that “I give God 10% Why do you get 18.” The waitress, who identified herself...
View ArticleReddit apologizes for encouraging dangerous Boston ‘witch hunts’
Reddit on Monday apologized for being a rallying point for online witch hunts as amateur sleuths used the social news website to expose the people behind the bombing at the Boston Marathon. “Though...
View ArticleKickstarter pick-up guide tells men: ‘Pull out your c-ck and put her hand on it’
The online fundraising site Kickstarter came under criticism on Wednesday for giving a platform to a project encouraging men to become “modern alpha males” based on online advice that included putting...
View ArticleReddit co-founder: Tech companies can help fight NSA snooping
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian recently told Reuters that tech companies should strive to uphold constitutional principles like privacy. He said Edward Snowden, who leaked information about the...
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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
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