The Great Firewall: China Censorship and Recent Hong Kong Protests
It seems as if the situation in Hong Kong isn’t going to die down anytime soon with protests entering their tenth week and financial …
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Whole Foods workers demand Amazon break ties with ICE
A group of employees from Whole Foods signed a letter Monday asking that its parent company Amazon.com Inc. break all ties with Immigration …
Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests
Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide …
DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service offline linked to Hong Kong protests
An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent. That’s one …
Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs
For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research …
Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance
The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the US, according …
Hacker Takes Over Pro Wrestler’s Twitter Account, Protests Motherboard Investigation of Social Media Account Hacking
A hacker took control of the Twitter account of pro wrestler Adam Cole and used it to protest Motherboard’s recent investigation into a …
How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance to Ban Protest
There’s a struggle going on between companies that want to drill for shale gas in the UK countryside and campaigners trying to stop them. …
Illinois Declines to Adopt Proposed Arbitrary Drone Surveillance of Protests
Observers often forget that surveillance offends not only privacy, but also the right to dissent. A recently defeated Illinois bill …
Tech Companies Are Complicit in Censoring Iran Protests
The world is witnessing the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising. Over the last two weeks, there has been unrest in nearly every major Iranian city …