Last fall, Mr. Swartz began an appointment as a research fellow at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics,
The university then tried to obstruct Mr. Swartz's laptop specifically, by barring the Media Access Control address, or MAC address, that the network had assigned to his computer.
A group of Swiss artists recently set a bot free on the darknet, allowing it to purchase whatever it could with Bitcoins. Among other weird things it bought were a few ecstasy pills and a fake Hungarian passport. Now an attorney asks whether the artists could be arrested under the law as it currently stands.
Three teenage boys in Michigan are facing charges of criminal sexual conduct and distributing child pornography after they engaged in a sex act with a 15-year-old girl and one of them posted a photo of it to Twitter. Other students who shared the photo could also face child porn charges. Which raises the question: are we talking to our teens enough about how they can be less dumb?
nstead of logging off, Criado-Perez retweeted the threats, blasting them out to her Twitter followers. She called up police and hounded Twitter for a response.
Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest of three men. Twitter—in response to several online petitions calling for action—hastened the rollout of a “report abuse” button that allows users to flag offensive material.
What I can’t cope with after that is the victim-blaming, the patronising, and the police record-keeping.
state attorney’s office to convict Macchione on 19 counts, one of which was cyberstalking
Macchione was sentenced to four years in prison.
Despite his pattern of abusive online behavior, Macchione was ultimately arrested for an unrelated physical crime.
he officers she spoke to—who thought usernames were secret codes and didn’t seem to know what an IP address was
The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
On the Internet, men are tourists and women are vagabonds.
Nathan Jurgenson
Twitter “has a history of saying ‘too bad, so sad’” when confronted with concerns about harassment on its platform