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The 'Onion' latest victim of Syrian Electronic Army's fat jokes
This afternoon, the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers supportive of Bashar al-Assad's regime, appeared to briefly hack into the Onion's Twitter feed. Over the course of about an hour, the SEA...
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This is, hands down, the scariest part of the NSA revelations
Forget PRISM, the National Security Agency's system to help extract data from Google, Facebook, and the like. The more frightening secret program unearthed by the NSA leaks is the gathering and...
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'Could have prevented 9/11' is the new 'Hitler'
Samuel Johnson once said that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Patriotism, and bad analogies. For the uninitiated, Godwin's Law is one of the cardinal rules of the Internet. Coined in...
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How Twitter Explains Egypt's Bloody Politics
As Egypt's political crisis has swelled in recent days, key actors ranging from ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsy to the opposition Tamarod movement have taken to Twitter to stake out their...
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Report: Indonesia Emerges as Hacking Powerhouse
Internet hackers have found a new home from which to spread online mayhem , and it's not where you might expect. According to a new report from cloud computing provider Akamai, Indonesia became a...
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Google Imperialism: Mapping the World's Most Popular Websites
Sure, it's not all that surprising that Google and Facebook are the most visited websites in almost every country. But what's more interesting is where they're not. Using public data from the web...
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'Reincarnated' Taiwanese Politician Takes Chinese Censors to Court
When it comes to censorship, "Chinese Internet users can do little," wrote Taiwanese politician and senior opposition party member Hung Chih-kune on Facebook on Oct. 19. "But messing with a Taiwanese...
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Horrific Day for Tiananmen Tourists Is Banner Day for Chinese Censors
On Oct. 28, a Jeep drove into a crowd in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing five people and injuring 38. While the story is still breaking and details remain sparse, the response by both police and...
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Another Massive Photoshop Fail in China
Now viral in China: A failed attempt at photo doctoring. On the evening of Oct. 29, Sina Weibo, China's Twitter, lit up with mockery at an image (above) posted online Oct. 12 by the government of...
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China's Animated Sex Ed Videos Just Went Viral, And For a Good Reason
A collection of sex education videos have just gone, ahem, viral on the Chinese Internet. On Oct. 29, a three-person team calling itself the "Nutcracker Studio" released three one-minute clips...
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Why Isn't China Censoring Chatter About its Latest Bomb Attack?
Over the past 10 days, two horrific attacks have shaken China -- but Chinese Internet censors seem interested in only one. On Oct. 28, five people died and dozens were injured when an SUV plowed into...
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Did the New York Times Just Get Blocked in China -- Again? [Updated]
Updated: A New York Times spokeswoman has told FP that T Magazine's Chinese language site is "once again accessible" in Mainland China. Although the cause of the outage is "unclear," it "appears to be...
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Westerners Aren't the Only Ones Flummoxed by China's Reform Plans
After the Third Plenum, a high-level meeting to discuss China's future, ended on Nov. 12, Beijing released a major document likely to affect many of its 1.3 billion citizens' lives for years. Western...
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Chinese Netizens Applaud Beijing’s Aggressive New Defense Zone
Beijing has just thrown down the latest gauntlet in a long-simmering territorial dispute with Tokyo -- and China's citizens are cheering. On Nov. 23, China's Ministry of Defense released a map showing...
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The Bungled Media Aftermath of China's Fatal Pipeline Explosion
Dozens of people have died in the coastal Chinese city of Qingdao, and authorities are sorry -- but, most Chinese think, not sorry enough.Early on Nov. 22, a crude oil pipeline owned and operated by...
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Chinese Chortle at U.S. Request to Scrap Controversial Air Defense Zone
The United States wants China to pull back from its gambit to try to rewrite the East China Sea's status quo, but the Chinese are having none of it. On Dec. 2, the U.S. State Department said China's...
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Bitcoin Gets Smacked Down in China, The Crypto-Currency's Hotbed
Chinese investors have helped drive up the price of Bitcoin to dizzying heights. Now, the Beijing government is doing its best to drive enthusiasm for the cryto-currency back down. The Chinese central...
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From Brooklyn to Kiev, How #DigitalMaidan Went Viral
From Kiev to Istanbul, Brasilia to Cairo, it's become a natural corollary of any modern protest movement: The battle isn't just won on the streets, but also in cyberspace. In the case of the...
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North Korea Proves It’s the Internet Troll of Diplomacy
It's an Internet truism -- known asGodwin's Law -- that "given enough time, in any online discussion -- regardless of topic or scope -- someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis."...
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Chinese netizens actually bought out every other ticket to a Valentine’s Day romcom so that couples couldn’t go.
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