Cyberculture agenda: the Internet’s role in gay marriage… “British government did spy on Amnesty International…

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Silicon Valley celebrates gay marriage, and the Internet’s role in it

 Mashable! by JP Mangalindan

It’s official: Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states, and the tech world is overjoyed.

6 tech companies whose gay marriage policies were way ahead of the Supreme Court

 Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman w

Few technology companies needed to wait for the Supreme Court to approve gay marriage to put policies in place that are friendly to gay employees

British government did spy on Amnesty International

 Mashable! by Blathnaid Healy

LONDON — Human rights group Amnesty International has been informed that it was being spied on by the UK government’s intelligence agency GCHQ

 

Which Lebanese and Arab Media Covered #SaudiCables and Which Ones Didn’t?

 Global Voices Online by Abir Ghattas

The Saudi Cables: Buying Silence: How the Saudi Foreign Ministry controls Arab media

Related posts:

1. Cyberculture agenda: Internet user-friendly copyright law presented to European Parliament… “Global Digital & Social Media Stats: 2015
2. Cyberculture agenda: Minecraft video game, target of Turkey’s Family Ministry … Twitter vs. Trolls
3. Cyberculture agenda: Obama’s Cyber-Threat initiatives… EFF: Transparency Is No Substitute For Free Speech…
4. Cyberculture agenda: New version of SecureDrop… Transparency in the Tech Industry
5. Cyberculture agenda: UN: Encryption and Anonymity Must Be Protected

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