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JANUARY 17, 2012
Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. In response, many web sites are going on strike.
Tech Soup
APRIL 3, 2012
You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ).
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
Sangeet Paul Choudary analyzes business models for Internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. A user’s karma on Hacker News or Reddit is a function of the community’s assessment of her ability to produce consistently and with high quality. You can follow him on Twitter @sanguit.
The Verge
JULY 30, 2020
The entirety of English Wikipedia constitutes just 0.6 It’s hard to estimate the total size, but we know that the entirety of the English Wikipedia, spanning some 6 million articles, makes up only 0.6 Any type of text that’s been uploaded to the internet has likely become grist to GPT-3’s mighty pattern-matching mill.
The Verge
MAY 21, 2021
Rather, it’s using the paper of record as an example of a phenomenon that happens all across the internet. There would be countless Reddit threads and tweet replies that would no longer make sense to future readers. Link rot doesn’t just affect journalism, either. What a nightmare! There’s also the Perma.cc There’s also the Perma.cc
The Verge
JUNE 25, 2020
In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). The movement has also found to be active on Twitter, Discord, and Reddit, among other social sites.) Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere?
The Verge
JUNE 11, 2020
The Wikipedia page entry for astroturfing notes that Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar begins with Cassius writing fake letters from “the public” to convince Brutus to assassinate the title character, and the idea has inspired the business community ever since. Reddit named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors.
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