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Admitting that its previous policy had “become unsustainable,” social news site Reddit announced today that it would ban all subreddits that focus on the sexualization of children, after years of dealing with child pornography on a case-by-case basis, reports Steven Musil for CNET. Previously Reddit did not expressly ban or prohibit its users from posting “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.” The site instead relied on a let-the-users-decide and self-police approach, but...
PHOENIX, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of a popular online community have collectively organized to form a political action committee which aims to support legislation and candidates fighting for electoral reform, individual liberties, and the Internet community. The group, Test PAC, Please Ignore is able to collect donations to use in strategic messaging, ad campaigns and web promotions to fight against misinformation and to support causes that further the interests of the...
To protest forthcoming SOPA and PIPA legislation, a number of major websites will shut down their operations for a 12 hour period to rally opposition against government legislation that will kill the Internet. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 18, 2012 Namecheap, a leading international domain name registrar and web host, will be blacking out its front page on January 18th in protest of pending SOPA and PIPA legislation along with many other websites, including Cheezburger, reddit, Wikpedia...
NetHosting explores music-collaboration website SoundCloud in a recent case study. Orem, UT (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 Global Cloud Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, and Cloud Virtual Hosting provider, NetHosting, recently announced the release of a new case study on the music-sharing social website SoundCloud. SoundCloud founders Alex Ljung and Eric Wahlforss created the website in 2007 to allow musicians to share their original scores with others in the same way that Flickr and Vimeo users...
SOPA/PIPA Opponents Hope Facebook, Google Join Reddit Blackout WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EIN News -- Touted by supporters as tools that will help the U.S. go after "foreign" rogue websites, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills are facing growing opposition. Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Ron Wyden, the most vocal opponents of SOPA and PIPA in the U.S. House of Representatives & the Senate, have championed alternative...
Indian Country Today Media Network, the premier resource for reaching Indian Country and those interested in all things indigenous, today announced the launch of site-wide, comprehensive tools that allow for enhanced sharing capabilities. It is now easier and faster for visitors to share their likes, thoughts, impressions, comments, stories and opinions with friends on such sites as: Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon and of course Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. (PRWEB) December 12, 2011 Indian...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today reddit is announcing its third annual online Secret Santa. The program, started by the independent group redditgifts, was officially acquired by Advance Publications after the success of last year's Secret Santa with over 17,000 participants in 90 different countries across the globe. Sign-ups for this year's Secret Santa begin today, November 1st and will remain open until November 25th. Participants are then matched up and invited to use...
A major service disruption was experienced by European users of Microsoft and Amazon cloud services this week and Amazon users stateside suffered a cloud outage for popular services like Foursquare, Reddit, and Netflix.Netflix tweeted that,"We're aware that some members are experiencing issues streaming movies and TV shows." The problems were resolved about two hours later.The issues stateside happened after Amazon network traffic was "executed incorrectly." Network...
SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical web design and Internet marketing innovator Medical Web Experts has recently launched the world's first doctor social bookmarking website, http://www.doctorbookmarks.com. By allowing users to share links to healthcare-related web content in a social environment of users with similar interests, doctors and medically conscious individuals can explore and discuss fresh and relevant material. DoctorBookmarks.com allows users to create a user login...
CHICAGO, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- midVenturesLAUNCH, the largest startup and innovation conference in the Midwest, will bring together notable entrepreneurs, emerging technology companies, venture capitalists and investors in a convergence of creativity and ingenuity on September 27-28 in Chicago. midVenturesLAUNCH will feature a keynote from Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell on building a startup company in the Midwest. In addition, Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit, will talk on his...
