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Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access βharmfulβ content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
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YouTuber βSchlep" built a huge following tracking down alleged child predators on Roblox before being kicked off. The platform is facing multiple lawsuits over child safety.
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On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the universityβs bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online. His proposal: use :-) and :-( as markers to distinguish jokes from serious comments. While Fahlman describes himself as βthe inventorβ¦ or at least one of the inventorsβ of what would later be called the smiley face emoticon, the full story reveals something more interesting than a lone genius moment.
The whole episode started three days earlier when computer scientist Neil Swartz posed a physics problem to colleagues on Carnegie Mellonβs βbboard,β which was an early online message board. The discussion thread had been exploring what happens to objects in a free-falling elevator, and Swartz presented a specific scenario involving a lit candle and a drop of mercury.
That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled βWARNING!β He claimed that an elevator had been βcontaminated with mercuryβ and suffered βsome slight fire damageβ due to a physics experiment. Despite clarifying posts noting the warning was a joke, some people took it seriously.
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