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Aisha Tyler To Gamer Trolls: GFYS

Aisha Tyler

If you don’t know who Aisha Tyler is, shame on you. Here’s a quick rundown of her expansive resume: She’s an actress, comedian, author, talk show host, and runs a successful podcast. Currently, she’s the voice of gorgeous, sasquatch-handed Lana Kane in Archer, which has wrapped up its fourth hilarious season. Tyler also emceed the Interactive Awards […]

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When Crowdsourcing Goes Wrong

FBI handout images of Boston bombing suspects

The body of Brown University student Sunil Tripathi has been confirmed found in the water near Indian Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island. While this might provide closure for Tripathi’s family, who have searched for him since mid-March, it’s also a potent reminder of how wrong Reddit users were when they falsely accused him of being […]

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Facebook, Reddit, And A Midnight Firefight: What The Internet Got Wrong About Watertown

Photo by Aram Boghosian/The Boston Globe/Getty Images

  Like many people who live in a time zone an hour or so behind the East Coast, I found myself awake late Thursday night, following the terrifying events that unfolded in Boston. I  watched and listened as the seemingly isolated, if tragic, shooting of an MIT police officer quickly became linked to a car […]

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CISPA Passed This Week Against Objections, Pleas, And Rationality

CISPA magnifying glass

I guess after being paid craploads of taxpayer money ($174,000 annually), Senators need to show something for it, given they have one of the laxest schedules imaginable. Some of the bills that have gone through the house in the last week or two have included rolling back insider trading rules, making Congress immune to prosecution, […]

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When Bad Things Happen To Awful People: Anonymous Takes On Westboro Baptist Church

Anonymous

In the immediate wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, it didn’t take long for the vermin to come crawling out of the woodwork, to point fingers at invisible enemies. The New York Post and Fox News were immediately inflating body counts, their reporters blaming and harassing Saudi students and their friends. Pundits elsewhere were blaming […]

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