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How women helped build the internet, and why it matters
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, a new book from journalist and musician Claire L. Evans, offers a rougher and more complicated version of the history of the internet.
Chinese social media platform WeChat reaches 1 billion accounts worldwide (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 11:33YouTube bans neo-Nazi channel after criticism over hate speech rules (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 13:03The best and worst of Mobile World Congress 2018 (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:50Facebook is starting to tell more users about facial recognition (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 12:48Sprint is preparing six cities for 5G with Massive MIMO antennas (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 11:45Reddit, Tumblr, and Others will fight for net neutrality with protests Feb 27
Along with organizations Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press Action Fund, companies including Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, and Medium are participating in a day of online and offline protests on February 27th. The protest — called Operation: #OneMoreVote — will call upon businesses, web users, and more to “flood lawmakers with phone calls and emails from constituents.”
6 things to expect from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 02/23/2018 - 11:14Conservatives say they've lost thousands of followers on Twitter
Conservative Twitter users are speaking out about a loss in followers after Twitter reportedly suspended thousands of accounts. Twitter has yet to announce the purge, but there is speculation that the action was part of the social media giant's effort to get rid of suspected Russian bots. Conservatives say they have been targeted in the purge. Some users are also claiming they were locked out of their accounts. By the morning of Feb 21, the hashtag "#TwitterLockOut" was trending on Twitter.