Brian Knappenberger's Kickstarter-funded documentary The Internet's Own Boy, the director's attempt to unite fractured accounts of the late Aaron Swartz as a person and an activist into a single narrative, just debuted at Sundance to positive reviews.
Remember the protest over the anti-piracy bill SOPA, which left Wikipedia black for a day and depressed the GPA of a large portion of the world's high school students? This week brings another internet freakout over a similarly geeky bill: The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISPA). Non-geeks, here is what you…
It doesn't take much to set off the fury of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Last night a California cop made a tweet suggesting he'd shoot hackers. Now he's been run off Twitter and is under an official investigation.
Paid Content's Jeff Roberts discovered what may be the world's geekiest stretch of graffiti on the Pulaski bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There was this Google stencil, a "Stop SOPA" tag, and a painted Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask.
If you've taken your frustrations with the Stop Online Piracy Act to your congressman's online contact form and tried to type that famous protest cry "DELETE THE BILL! DELETE THE BILL!", then you've already discovered a dark truth: You get censored, thanks to oxymoronic "congressional rules." But don't worry, you can…
Texas Rep. Lamar Smith shelved his terrible internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act today after the internet's week-long anti-SOPA freakout.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart attempted to wrap his head around SOPA and its draconian take on internet piracy. He saved his harshest criticisms for its sponsors in Congress and their inability to truly understand (a) the internet and (b) what their bill will actually do. And their flippant use of the word…
The best part of any internet news story is when the social media power user and sometime Gawker contributor Katie Notopoulos starts searching for it on Twitter. Like the SOPA-driven Wikipedia blackout, which sure freaked out high school kids—and their teachers.
Today, some of the best websites on the internet—and Reddit—are blacked-out to protest SOPA. But you think "SOPA" is what an Italian tourist says when asking for the cleaning supplies aisle at an American convenience store. Here's a guide for those of you whose brains shut down when thinking about tech stuff, but…
Wikipedia will shut down Wednesday to protest SOPA, the civil-liberties-destroying law that otherwise indifferent rich internet people actually care about. A day without Wikipedia sounds terrifying and exhilarating all at once. Just imagine the possibilities!
Lo, white male computer nerds have discovered political injustice! And since it's crushing their dreams of becoming internet billionaires, they're actually doing something about it, on a site called "I Work for the Internet." It's adorable and depressing at the same time.
