internet issues

I'm honestly not sure which sub-forum to put this in. :confused: But: Stripe Discriminates Against Witches Payment processing companies decide who is empowered to buy and sell online—and their policies show a gross misunderstanding of metaphysical practitioners...

There are reportedly issues with Fastly which provides cloud computing. UK government websites have 503 errors. https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1402210037553041409?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet edited to add..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

Looks like a major outage at Facebook currently, the whole site seems to be down.

It's been going on for days now, aimed at financial institutions other than banks. Banks went through this a few years back, but their systems can hold out against anything less than state-sponsored attacks, so the scammers have taken it down half a notch, aiming at NZX, PayPal, WorldPay and...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822 I see Bitcoin spiked a little during the last 24 hours, which may be related.

From The Guardian: Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator Worth clicking through for the full article. It's pretty disturbing.

That scary feeling when Facebook shows you an ad from something you looked at elsewhere? "To help shed more light on these practices that are common yet not always well understood, today we’re introducing a new way to view and control your off-Facebook activity. Off-Facebook Activity lets you...

Watch Zuckerberg confess: “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.” Except it's not him. Videos faking people out has moved ahead another step. What goes around comes around. The Zuckerberg...

https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/ It gets worse as you read on.

Ah the free market. The invisible hand of which can not steer one wrong. Let us all gather round the Ayn Rand statue and give a blessing of thanks to the concept that private industry makes the best decisions always. Just ask the people of Bhopal or Love Canal...or Cardin, Oklahoma...umm...

(Slate) Reddit's r/AskHistorians mod on Holocaust denial: "We ban it immediately." Wasn't sure where to put this, but might as well do it here. Mods, feel free to move to a more appropriate subforum if there is one...

Probably wrong section, but Australia and New Zealand are losing access to most of Amazon due to tax changes. I buy all books on Kindle now, will this be possible by some remote server idea?

Cause I think you should, unless 1) You don't believe that net neutrality is in danger of disappearing 2) You don't believe losing net neutrality affects you at all

A map of trolling activity from Wired Magazine: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/internet-troll-map/ Interesting in terms of differences between states and between cities. And how there are hot spots. Related to numbers of bridges?

This seems bizarre to me. Snopes is reported to have been hijacked. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/07/24/1929214/fact-checking-and-rumor-dispelling-site-snopescom-held-hostage-by-vendor https://www.savesnopes.com/ I wouldn't have thought that something like this would be so hard to resolve.

A study by psychologists headed by Dr John Synott identifying what they call the behaviour of 'on-line trolls' is published in the June 2017 edition, Pages 70–78, of 'Computers in Human Behavior'. The 'highlights' are as follows: The abstract is as follows: Source and where the full paper...

One of the first websites I ever visited, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), has pulled the plug on its message boards. I was used to going to it after I'd seen a movie or binged on a series and wanted to what other people thought. Then after a "Wentworth" binge I was disappointed that the...

Wednesday, President Obama signed an Executive Order to impose economic sanctions on anyone involved in "cyber attacks" against US interests. A couple of interesting points. 1) This isn't against nations, but rather focuses on individuals involved in the cyber attacks. So, they can...

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/sen-feinstein-anarchist-cookbook-not-protected-first-amendment Good luck with that. Ranb

The city of Philadelphia will now charge you $300 to start your own blog. This is the result of internet regulation folks. I see this as destroying more jobs more innovation and generally being a gigantic pain for every startup. Government is the problem...

No, wait. "saves". Obama saves the internet. I'm sure this is horrible for some reason.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27407017 I think it points to the inconsistency of how the internet works. Information is not owned anymore by those that provide it. And the users accept this arrangement for the "free" service of using server portals ( Google, Facebook etc). These server...

Vladimir Putin signed a new law—referred to as the "blogger's law"—that will require online writers with more than 3,000 daily readers to register with the Roskomnadzor, Russia's media oversight agency. I am looking forward to how local Putin-lovers will spin this. Probably "necessary in view...

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine about some exasperation I was feeling about dealing with trollish behavior in certain threads on jref. He mentioned coming across a paper about what was called the "dark tetrad," four traits evident, at a sub-clinical level, among internet trolls...

What do you think of the proposed FCC rules? If they kill net neutrality, then things are looking bad indeed.

Seemingly because of a video posted of Turkish officials discussing engineering a war with Syria. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/28/heres-the-video-that-got-youtube-banned-in-turkey/?tid=hp_mm

BBC News: Porn site age-check law demanded by media regulator One factoid caught my eye: "One website alone - Pornhub - had been visited by 112,000 boys in the UK aged between 12 and 17-years-old" This is the only reference to gender in the report. The news release on the regulator's site...

The Turkish PM has directed the courts to issue an order to block the use of Twitter here in Turkey. This was done because of web links spread throughout the country via Twitter. The links are to sites which contain wire tapped phone conversations between Erdoğan, his family, and government...

The future of the UK, ladies and gentlemen: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/turkey-twitter-users-flout-ban-erdogan

OK, so the courts say the FCC cannot demand that ISPs remain neutral with respect to classes of traffic, opening the door to things like Verizon cable keeping you from even finding WOW cable's web site. And I think we can all agree that for the consumer, that's not the best. So, how to deal...