internet
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Discord’s New Anti-Extremism Rules Saw More Than 2,000 Servers Banned In Late 2020
Popular group-chat app Discord deleted 2,000-plus servers dedicated to extremism and violent content in the second half of 2020, including more than 300 QAnon communities. According to its latest half-yearly transparency report, released on Monday, Discord banned a total of 2,212 servers dedicated to extremist content between July and December of 2020. This marks a…
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The World Wide Web is 32 Today and Billions of People Still Don’t Have Access to It
Today is the World Wide Web’s 32nd birthday.
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Your iPhone’s Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything ‘Asian’
Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone. That’s not great, folks.
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New Report Suggests FCC Massively Overstated Gigabit Coverage in U.S.
A recent report released on November 30 by BroadbandNow reveals the FCC grossly overreported the availability of gigabit internet in the U.S. As of 2020, the FCC reported gigabit internet was available to 84% of Americans, up from just 4% in 2016. But according to BroadbandNow, those numbers are closer to 56% in 2020, up…