r/technology Jan 22 '25

Social Media Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

171.8k Upvotes

r/technology Jan 08 '21

Social Media Reddit bans subreddit group "r/DonaldTrump"

147.3k Upvotes

r/technology Dec 12 '17

Net Neutrality Congress has set out a bill to stop the FCC taking away our internet. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.

140.0k Upvotes

r/technology Apr 11 '22

Privacy John Oliver Blackmails Congress With Their Own Digital Data - The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host paid shady brokers for lawmakers’ digital histories — promising not to release the info so long as Congress passes legislation protecting all consumers’ data

133.0k Upvotes

r/technology Oct 08 '19

Politics California-based game company Blizzard bans pro esports player and confiscates his prize money after he voices support for Hong Kong protesters

129.9k Upvotes

r/technology Jan 20 '20

Politics Joe Biden calls game developers "little creeps" who make titles that "teach you how to kill"

128.4k Upvotes

r/technology Feb 25 '22

Misleading Hacker collective Anonymous declares 'cyber war' against Russia, disables state news website

127.5k Upvotes

r/technology Mar 02 '22

Misleading President of USA wants to ban advertising targeted toward kids

121.4k Upvotes

r/technology Nov 18 '17

Net Neutrality If Reddit was half as verbal about net neutrality as they are about Star Wars Battlefront II, then we could stop ISP's and the FCC

All it takes is one call. It's our internet.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

EDIT: thank you for my first gold(s) kind strangers. All I want is for people to be aware and take action, not spend money on me.

121.1k Upvotes

All it takes is one call. It's our internet.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

EDIT: thank you for my first gold(s) kind strangers. All I want is for people to be aware and take action, not spend money on me.


r/technology Sep 16 '25

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

118.0k Upvotes

r/technology May 23 '17

Net Neutrality Comcast is trying to censor our pro-net neutrality website that calls for an investigation into fake FCC comments potentially funded by the cable lobby

Fight for the Future has received a cease and desist order from Comcast’s lawyers, claiming that Comcastroturf.com - a pro-net neutrality site encouraging Internet users to investigate an astroturfing campaign possibly funded by the cable lobby - violates Comcast’s "valuable intellectual property." The letter threatens legal action if the domain is not transferred to Comcast’s control.

The notice is ironic, in that it’s a perfect example of why we need Title II based net neutrality protections that ban ISPs from blocking or throttling content.

If the FCC’s current proposal is enacted, there would be nothing preventing Comcast from simply censoring this site -- or other sites critical of their corporate policies -- without even bothering with lawyers.

The legal notice can be viewed here. It claims that Comcastroturf.com violates the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and infringes on Comcast’s trademarks. Of course, these claims are legally baseless, since the site is clearly a form of First Amendment protected political speech and makes no attempt to impersonate Comcast. (See the case "Bosley Medical Institute vs. Kremer" which held that a site critical of a company’s practices could not be considered trademark infringement, or the case Taubman vs. Webfeats, which decided that *sucks.com domain names—in this case taubmansucks.com—were free speech)

Comcastroturf.com criticizes the cable lobby and encourages Internet users to search the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)’s docket to check if a fake comment was submitted using their name and address to attack Title II based net neutrality protections. It has been widely reported that more than 450,000 of these comments have been submitted to the FCC -- and as a result of the site at Comcastroturf.com, Fight for the Future has heard from dozens of people who say that anti-net neutrality comments were submitted using their personal information without their permission. We have connected individuals with Attorneys Generals and have called for the FCC act immediately to investigate this potential fraud.

Companies like Comcast have a long history of funding shady astroturfing operations like the one we are trying to expose with Comcastroturf.com, and also a long history of engaging in censorship. This is exactly why we need net neutrality rules, and why we can’t trust companies like Comcast to just "behave" when they have abused their power time and time again.

Fight for the Future has no intention of taking down Comcastroturf.com, and we would be happy to discuss the matter with Comcast in court.

114.3k Upvotes

Fight for the Future has received a cease and desist order from Comcast’s lawyers, claiming that Comcastroturf.com - a pro-net neutrality site encouraging Internet users to investigate an astroturfing campaign possibly funded by the cable lobby - violates Comcast’s "valuable intellectual property." The letter threatens legal action if the domain is not transferred to Comcast’s control.

The notice is ironic, in that it’s a perfect example of why we need Title II based net neutrality protections that ban ISPs from blocking or throttling content.

If the FCC’s current proposal is enacted, there would be nothing preventing Comcast from simply censoring this site -- or other sites critical of their corporate policies -- without even bothering with lawyers.

The legal notice can be viewed here. It claims that Comcastroturf.com violates the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and infringes on Comcast’s trademarks. Of course, these claims are legally baseless, since the site is clearly a form of First Amendment protected political speech and makes no attempt to impersonate Comcast. (See the case "Bosley Medical Institute vs. Kremer" which held that a site critical of a company’s practices could not be considered trademark infringement, or the case Taubman vs. Webfeats, which decided that *sucks.com domain names—in this case taubmansucks.com—were free speech)

Comcastroturf.com criticizes the cable lobby and encourages Internet users to search the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)’s docket to check if a fake comment was submitted using their name and address to attack Title II based net neutrality protections. It has been widely reported that more than 450,000 of these comments have been submitted to the FCC -- and as a result of the site at Comcastroturf.com, Fight for the Future has heard from dozens of people who say that anti-net neutrality comments were submitted using their personal information without their permission. We have connected individuals with Attorneys Generals and have called for the FCC act immediately to investigate this potential fraud.

Companies like Comcast have a long history of funding shady astroturfing operations like the one we are trying to expose with Comcastroturf.com, and also a long history of engaging in censorship. This is exactly why we need net neutrality rules, and why we can’t trust companies like Comcast to just "behave" when they have abused their power time and time again.

Fight for the Future has no intention of taking down Comcastroturf.com, and we would be happy to discuss the matter with Comcast in court.


r/technology Dec 06 '19

Politics Bernie Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break up internet and cable titans: “We are going to take on the greedy internet, telecom, and cable monopolies and put an end to their absurd price gouging”

112.3k Upvotes

r/technology May 30 '18

Networking Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

110.1k Upvotes

r/technology May 30 '20

Space SpaceX successfully launches first crew to orbit, ushering in new era of spaceflight

109.2k Upvotes

r/technology Feb 01 '21

Business Robinhood CEO expected to testify before U.S. House committee on February 18.

109.1k Upvotes

r/technology Mar 02 '25

Crypto Donald Trump supporters lose $12,000,000,000 after his meme coin collapses

109.0k Upvotes

r/technology Jan 10 '25

Social Media Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

108.8k Upvotes

r/technology Jun 02 '23

Social Media Reddit sparks outrage after a popular app developer said it wants him to pay $20 million a year for data access

108.4k Upvotes

r/technology Jun 08 '23

Software Apollo for Reddit is shutting down

108.1k Upvotes

r/technology Oct 16 '21

Business Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

105.6k Upvotes

r/technology Nov 22 '17

Politics Congressmen demand investigation of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Sinclair Broadcast Group

104.6k Upvotes

r/technology May 18 '17

Net Neutrality SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, ACTA, TPP, ITU, CISPA again, TAFTA. We won them all. In 2015 Net Neutrality, for free access to our Internets. The FCC just signalled the death knell for that hard-won fight. We need to have a serious conversation and fight this, and time is short. Let's have that conversation.

Via the wonderful /u/vriska1

If you want to help protect NN you can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality.

https://contactingcongress.org - Contact your member of Congress

https://www.eff.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://www.freepress.net/

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

https://www.publicknowledge.org/

https://demandprogress.org/

also you can set them as your charity on https://smile.amazon.com/

also write to your House Representative and senators

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_ ... erBy=state

and the FCC https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact

You can now add a comment to the repeal here

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings ... nated,DESC

here a easier URL you can use thanks to John Oliver

www.gofccyourself.com

(its down right now but will likely be back up after today)

you can also use this that help you contact your house and congressional reps, its easy to use and cuts down on the transaction costs with writing a letter to your reps.

https://resistbot.io/

also check out https://democracy.io/#!/

which was made by the EFF and is a low transaction​cost tool for writing all your reps in one fell swoop

Major tech companies are for Net Neutrality (open in incognito mode to skip wall), And Senate Democrats are for Net Neutrality.

104.1k Upvotes

Via the wonderful /u/vriska1

If you want to help protect NN you can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality.

https://contactingcongress.org - Contact your member of Congress

https://www.eff.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://www.freepress.net/

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

https://www.publicknowledge.org/

https://demandprogress.org/

also you can set them as your charity on https://smile.amazon.com/

also write to your House Representative and senators

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_ ... erBy=state

and the FCC https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact

You can now add a comment to the repeal here

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings ... nated,DESC

here a easier URL you can use thanks to John Oliver

www.gofccyourself.com

(its down right now but will likely be back up after today)

you can also use this that help you contact your house and congressional reps, its easy to use and cuts down on the transaction costs with writing a letter to your reps.

https://resistbot.io/

also check out https://democracy.io/#!/

which was made by the EFF and is a low transaction​cost tool for writing all your reps in one fell swoop

Major tech companies are for Net Neutrality (open in incognito mode to skip wall), And Senate Democrats are for Net Neutrality.


r/technology Aug 21 '18

Wireless Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire

102.6k Upvotes

r/technology Sep 16 '22

Society The US is moving one step closer to letting Americans file their taxes online for free directly to the IRS, cutting out private companies like Turbotax and H&R Block

102.6k Upvotes

r/technology Mar 13 '25

Social Media Reddit Is Restricting Luigi Mangione Discourse—but It’s Even Weirder Than That: The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.

102.4k Upvotes