Twitter really gave it the old college try with the Malcolm Harris case. The Occupy protester was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last fall, along with about 700 other kids trying to stand up to the banks. Like those hundred or so other protesters, H…
Yesterday, YouTube introduced a new 'face-blurring' feature that does exactly that. The goal is to provide "video anonymity" for those who desire it—the company explains the reasoning behind the filter thusly: "Whether you want to share sensitive pro…
Ask anyone in the bleary-eyed younger crowd milling around Peavey Plaza, an Occupy Minnesota hotbed, in downtown Minneapolis and you just may get a resounding, if not blissfully confused, “…Yeah.” In what’s either the most genius bit of coax-‘em-…
It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball. Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing
Kevin O'Connor's official title is Assistant Commissioner - Juvenile Justice Division, which makes him head of the the NYPD’s "Social Media Unit." (Apparently stalking people on Facebook is associated with juveniles.) O’Connor’s new role "was announc…
If it's ever all said and done, Occupy Wall Street will go down as the first fully Internet-fueled social movement in the United States. Occupy's initial success, of course, was in spreading a virtual meme over corporeal reality. But now that the rem…
Well, shit. Just when the hacks had almost entirely given up on all those lazy, disorganized, white, middle-class college kids collectively known as the Occupy Wall Street movement - I mean, the Republican primary circus is rolling through town, peop…
Ever since last week's historic "web blackout":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell rattled the cage in Washington, droves of lawmakers have ei…
The rising cost and declining value of higher education in the United States has undoubtedly been one of the key grievances of upstart social justice movements like Occupy Wall Street. And the anger is beginning to boil over -- just look at the stude…
After their "visible hesitance":http://www.breakingcopy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/time_mag_covers_dec_5_2011.jpg to prominently cover various popular uprisings around the world, it seemed almost as if in compensation that TIME Magazine chose to
For all his smart, merciless and often polarizing diatribes on the tyrannical nature of organized religion, there is a spot amongst the vast and scathing rhetoric of Christopher Hitchens we'd all do well to explore in wake of his passing. With "SOPA"…
The United States began organizing a local suppression in South Vietnam during the late fifties. It took years before the American antiwar movement caught up with its government’s actions, and there was little domestic opposition after the war kicked…
Were it not for the fact that Cyber Monday takes place online, and that it enables businesses of all sizes to make some bank on America's annual consumer binge ritual, it would probably be just another addendum to the depraved human behavior inspired…
For creative professionals who depend on the internet to make their living, the internet blacklist bills being forced through Congress right now are bad news. If passed, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and its Senate doppelganger the PROTECT-IP Act wil…
By the time the news vans arrived in force, the morning sunlight had already caressed the corners of Zuccotti Park. They were too late. The space had been, for nearly 2 months, the foremost base of operations for Occupy Wall Street, the movement form…
