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Japan Enacts New Law With Up to 1 Year in Prison Now for Online Abuse!

Online abuse is clearly a pretty huge problem. And, unfortunately, one that doesn’t seem to have a magic bullet solution either. – I mean, you only have to spend ...

June 19, 2022 at 9:52 am by

Chatroom Experiment Charges You A Penny Per Character

Expensive Chat I can’t personally remember the last time I visited a chatroom. It was probably back in the days of Yahoo Chat and given that they shut that service down ...

March 4, 2019 at 10:18 am by

Facebook Hires 3000 Staff To Tackle Hate Speech!

Facebook is set to hire 3,000 staff members specifically to tackle hate speech, child abuse and self harm being broadcast on their site. Following substantial recent criticism ...

May 3, 2017 at 8:07 pm by

Report Suggests Facebook is Target Advertising the Vulnerable

Leaked documents have emerged alleging that Facebook is helping their advertisers target teenager users who are at their most vulnerable. The documents, reportedly from ...

May 1, 2017 at 8:35 pm by

Social Medias Failure to Deal with Illegal Content is “Shameful”

A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content. Evidence was found ...

May 1, 2017 at 8:33 pm by

Major Facebook Outage Seems to Affect Millions

It seems that people around the world have trouble accessing their Facebook accounts and as a result, the worldwide productivity rises by 80%. Nah, I’m just kidding ...

January 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm by

HyperX Creates Bizarre NSFW Headset Ad With Twerking Man

Advertising is most effective when it gets people talking and Kingston HyperX’s latest advertisement for their Cloud Stinger headset is sure to do that. This ...

November 16, 2016 at 3:44 pm by

Twitter Sales Rumours Pick Up With Potential New Bidders

We have heard rumours before that the social media giant Twitter could be up for sale, but so far it hasn’t been sold to anyone despite previous rumours named large ...

September 26, 2016 at 12:25 pm by

Twitter Shut Down Thousands of Accounts Linked to Terrorism

When it comes to online accounts, they can be used for a lot of things. From buying your favourite DVD boxsets to catching up with family abroad, some accounts are misused and ...

August 19, 2016 at 11:00 am by

Police Looking to Help Support Victims of Online Abuse

We’ve all been online on those late nights, reading our favourite news or finding out the most up to date information about your favourite TV show when someone just ...

August 16, 2016 at 8:40 am by

Facebook Messenger Can Now Get Your Letter to the President

Social media has done what many has considered impossible for years. With people all over the world connecting on a daily basis, with everything from your old school friends ...

August 11, 2016 at 12:40 pm by

Bar Blocks Mobile Phones to Encourage Conversations

How often do you go out only to see people sitting across from one another staring at their phones without a single word mentioned to each other? A bar in Hove, England has ...

August 4, 2016 at 10:00 am by

BioWare Shutting Down Their Iconic Forums

BioWare is known for their games, from their tales in Baldurs Gate and Dragons Age to saving the universe in Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic. With big games and ...

July 30, 2016 at 11:33 am by

Facebook Trials its Secret Message Service in Messenger

For generations the idea of sending a message and not being able to retract it is a scary one. From the day of the first texts, people have sent messages only to realise how ...

July 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm by

Friend Your Apartment Building or Risk Losing Your Place

Long are the days when the local newspaper had everything you needed to know about your local area, instead you find adverts on sites like Gumtree and Craigslist for ...

June 1, 2016 at 3:00 pm by

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