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YouTube Punishes Homophobic, Racist Pundit Following Internet Furor
2019-06-06 12:10:41| TechNewsWorld
YouTube on Wednesday demonetized the account of right-wing commentator Steven Crowder following widespread indignation over its initial response to his attacks on Vox host Carlos Maza. Crowder for years has attacked Maza, host of Vox's Strikethrough series. Crowder's homophobic and racist comments often spurred mass social media attacks and other abuse against Maza.
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Flash Furor Grows Despite Adobe's Latest Fix
2015-07-15 21:29:54| TechNewsWorld
Three new vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player have been reported over the past two weeks, triggering a storm of protest and leading Mozilla and Google to ban the plug-in from their Firefox and Chrome browsers. "It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day," Facebook CSO Alex Stamos tweeted Sunday.
NSA snooping furor continues
2014-09-16 05:26:57| Telecom - Topix.net
The National Security Agency is facing more allegations of cyber-snooping after reportedly targeting German telecom networks Deutsche Telekom and Netcologne as part of a sophisticated program to map the Internet. Citing top-secret documents provided by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, have targeted the firms as part of a program dubbed "Treasure Map."
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Russia-Greenpeace furor animated by Arctic oil pollution
2013-10-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: An environmental organization with a $350 million war chest, a giant protest vessel, 28 activists and a rubber raft have succeeded in drawing Russian President Vladimir V. Putin into a very public global dispute. Attention is now focused on the Greenpeace activistswho were arrested last month by Coast Guard agents for trying to hang a protest banner on an Arctic Ocean oil platformand whether they will languish in prison for up to 15 years each on dubious piracy charges. "They are obviously not...
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Britains Furor Over Fracking
2013-08-27 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The lovely green hills of the High Weald are Tory country, a corner of West Sussex full of affluent residents who commute to London and like their golf and ambles and thatched cottages. So it is a surprise, in this conservative heartland, to stumble on an encampment of hundreds of activists, foraging in the hedgerows for edible greens, sawing wood for fires, playing flutes and generally enacting a kind of mini-Woodstock. But peace and love are not the story. This is the heavily policed front line...