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Facebook nymwars: Disproportionately outing LGBT performers, users furious

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Friday, September 12th, 2014

Facebook is enforcing its “real names” policy, insidiously outing a disproportionate number of gay, trans and adult performers — placing them at risk for attacks, stalking, privacy violations and more.

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Facebook nymwars: Disproportionately outing LGBT performers, users furious

Posted on: September 12, 2014 3:24 pm

French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov’t Doesn’t Like

We had been noting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, how the country that then held a giant “free speech” rally appeared to be, instead, focusing on cracking down on free speech at every opportunity. And target number one: the internet.

Posted on: March 19, 2015 12:17 pm

Bash bug as big as Heartbleed

Today’s bash bug is as big a deal as Heartbleed. That’s for many reasons. The first reason is that the bug interacts with other software in unexpected ways. We know that interacting with the shell is dangerous, but we write code that does it anyway.

Posted on: September 25, 2014 3:54 pm

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