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Friday, August 28, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: Twitter urged to be more supportive for activists…

Twitter must be less cowardly and fight for activists

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

For years, Twitter has been the go-to communication medium for social and political activists and commentators. Its format is well suited to broadcasting ideas to a large audience in real-time. During the Arab Spring, Twitter proved to be an effective tool for organizing protests across countries like Egypt and Tunisia, in an effort to overthrow unjust governments in the Middle East.

Twitter shuts down transparency tracker

EurActiv.com

Twitter has stopped a website tracking politicians’ deleted tweets by shutting down its access to the social media giant’s data.

Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians’ deleted tweets in 30 countries

The Next Web by Mic Wright

The Open State Foundation (OSF) knew this was coming. The US account was shut down by Twitter in May. Now the hammer has come down on the rest of the group’s Politwoops accounts – each of which was dedicated to monitoring deletions by elected officials in a specific country

Twitter blocks Politiwoops website that archived politicians’ deleted tweets

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

trump Politiwoops, already dead in the U.S., now dies in 30 more countries. They rely on Twitter’s API, after all, which the company has long made clear is not a public service. The problem: it kills something that keeps politicians honest.

Arguing that politicians’ tweets shouldn’t be “irrevocable,” Twitter shuts down Politwoops worldwide

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

When Twitter shut down the U.S. version of Politwoops, a site that archived American politicians’ deleted tweets, in June, it seemed likely that the 30 other such sites worldwide would eventually get the ax as well. Now that has happened: Over the weekend, the Open State Foundation, which ran the non-U.S. versions of Politwoops and Diplotwoops, reported that Twitter has suspended API access for all of those accounts as well.

Cheating site Ashley Madison offers $500,000 reward for dirt on hackers

Mashable! by Brian Ries

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The company that runs the cheating website AshleyMadison.com, Toronto-based Avid Life Media, is putting up a $500,000 reward for information that leads to the “identification, arrest and prosecution” of the hackers who leaked its massive database last week.

The 50th anniversary of the word ‘hypertext’

Boing Boing by Laura Hudson

Daniel Rehn/Creative Commons

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the word “hypertext,” Gigaom talks to Ted Nelson, who coined the term and then introduced it in a 1965 paper for the Association for Computing Machinery.

The 20 Most Infamous Cyberattacks of the 21st Century (Part I)

MIT Technology Review

Cyberattacks are on the increase, and one cybersecurity researcher is on a mission to document them all.