This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. China wants a shiny new internet — and you may like what the country has in mind. Its plan promises a network fast enough to show you as a live hologram in a video chat, secure enough to block data deluge …
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Nine hundred million comments and 12 billion upvotes later, Reddit has posted its best-of lists for 2017. The fourth-most visited site on the internet says its most upvoted post was one called “The Senate. Upvote this so that people see it when they Google ‘The Senate’.” The second-ranking post, “Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page …
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Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer continues its quest to find a home after having its domain pulled by GoDaddy and Google. The site has moved onto the darknet, which can only be accessed through the Tor browser. A Twitter page associated with the site early Wednesday tweeted a link to its new temporary address. The Daily Stormer, which has been …
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The internet gave white nationalists a platform to organize their Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s also giving counter-protesters a way to strip them of anonymity. A Twitter account called Yes, You’re Racist has been naming and shaming people who joined the weekend rally against Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The rally …
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The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website appeared to be offline late Monday after Google said it would cancel the hate site’s domain registration following its migration from GoDaddy earlier in the day. Attempts to reach the website, which has been called the “top hate site in America,” on the surface web weren’t completed and sometimes hung at a screen from Cloudflare, …
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The political football that is the NBN, the plan to connect all Australians to high-speed internet, has a problem. It’s being referred to in official press releases as “the nbn network”. Like the ATM machine and PIN number before it, the NBN network has fallen victim to RAS Syndrome. After undergoing a third expensive rebrand in 2015, NBN Co became …
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If you’ve heard of Mozilla, it’s probably because you’ve used its Firefox browser. Now the nonprofit wants to expand out of technology into politics. Mozilla is marshaling public support for political positions, like backing net neutrality, defending encryption and keeping government surveillance from getting out of hand, says Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Mozilla’s chief legal and business officer. The organization is funding …
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