Last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) controversially shut down cellular service in its stations to curb the efforts of demonstrators protesting the police shooting death of Charles Blair Hill back on July 3rd of this year. Discontent with BART police has been festering for quite some time following the wrongful shooting death of …
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Libyans Used Coded Messages on Dating Site to Thwart Government Scrutiny
The Libyan government may have had its eye on popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook, but there was one means of communication on the web that it forgot to check.
Protesters slipped under the radar by using the Muslim dating site Mawada to send clandestine messages organizing the revolution. As revealed to ABC News, the …
How To Stage A DIY Mass Protest
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Conor Friedersdorf.
No matter if you’re aiming to overthrow your government, or to simply shame your local state legislature, some best-practices for a D.I.Y. revolution have emerged of late.
As Egyptians revolted, Malcolm Gladwell argued in The New Yorker that the least interesting …
Internet Rallies Behind Egypt In An Attempt To Restore Communication
Since Tuesday’s “day of rage” swelled protests across Egypt, seven people have been killed, thousands have clashed with police and the country is in the middle of an Internet blackout.
(More on TIME: Did Egypt Really “Shut Off” The Internet?)
We heard of a social network ban nation wide earlier this week, as sites like …
God Hates Nerds: Your Friendly Salvation Reminder
Turns out geekiness is so not next to Godliness, or so says the Westboro Baptist Church.
The church will be protesting outside of this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego next week in an attempt to stop the nation’s nerds from worshiping superheros. (Because that’s what we do, apparently.) Led by Reverend Fred Phelps, the congregation will …
