The university of British Columbia (UBC) has taken down a post suggesting a Facebook page claiming to represent the interests of white students on campus was a hoax perpetrated by online racists.
Cultural appropriation is the idea that adopting elements of a foreign culture, from dressing up as Mariachis to wearing dreadlocks if you’re not black, is oppressive. Ein volk, ein culture. Naturally, the concept was invented by campus progressives.
Earlier this week, I reported on the rise of Facebook pages for ‘White Student Unions’ at U.S. campuses. As part of an ongoing backlash to radical racial activists on campus, white and non-white students have set up what they call
The BBC feature quotes a widely discredited study from the U.N. on “cyberviolence,” which, contrary to research from the Pew Centre and the Demos think tank, makes the extraordinary claim that “95% of all aggressive and denigrating behaviour in online spaces is aimed at women.”
The chaos that erupted across college campuses earlier this month escalated racial tensions among students to levels not seen since the 1950s and 60s, as radical activists sought to enforce a new orthodoxy of ‘white privilege’ across universities. The inevitable consequence — a newly-racialized American campus — is beginning to emerge.
Fractures are emerging in Anonymous’s war on ISIS. We previously covered the hacking group’s alleged takedown of thousands of ISIS-affiliated social media accounts. But rival factions in Anonymous are now at odds over a list of alleged “ISIS targets” released
In the wake of the Paris attacks, there have been fresh calls for tech companies to weaken their privacy protections to allow western security services to monitor online communications. Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on Silicon Valley to “not view
Intel may have too much time on its hands. Earlier this week, the company asked its employees – all of them – to attend diversity training workshops. In an email to employees, Intel CIO manager Andy Robbins said: We are on
As we reported over the past week, the hacking group Anonymous is waging war on the Islamic State. But the group claims that their efforts are being hindered by CloudFlare, a prominent Silicon Valley start-up that protects websites from cyberattacks.
An attempted follow-up to last week’s chaos on U.S. campuses ended in failure after the Black Justice League at Princeton’s call for a day of “national walkouts” failed to gather steam.
Defying expectations, the loose-knit online group Anonymous has landed a blow against the Islamic State’s online presence.
Under pressure from progressive activists, the University of York has canceled an event to address men’s issues on International Men’s Day this Thursday, on the grounds that women’s inequality is more important.
British comedian Jason Manford was temporarily suspended from Facebook after he went on a passionate, explitive-filled condemnation of the jihadist terrorists who recently killed 129 people in Paris. Facebook’s reason for suspending him remain unclear.
That’s the motto of the hacking group and social movement Anonymous. It typically appears on their videos and messages when they announce a new target. Following the recent massacre in Paris, it seems their new target is the Islamic State.
Recently, Breitbart Tech reported on a reddit board’s censorship of a Rubin Report video about campus censorship. Following our story, the Reddit board that removed the video has clarified their rules and created a new subreddit dedicated solely to political videos. In a public announcement, moderators
A video from The Rubin Report discussing the growing culture of censorship on U.S. campuses was recently censored by a moderator on Reddit, despite its popularity among users.
Music streaming service Spotify has implemented political censorship on its platform, marking another step in the transition of neutral online platforms to moral censors. It has begun with an easy target, white nationalist bands. Who could object to the censorship of white nationalists?
The Tor Project, which creates free software for anonymous web browsing, has accused Carnegie Mellon University of working with the FBI to compromise its network, but the FBI has denied the allegations.
There have been further sensational developments in the Shia LaBeouf story following our groundbreaking reporting yesterday evening. Sources tell us that the actor, who has been livestreaming himself watching his own movies for the past two days (really), fell asleep
Shia LaBeouf is livestreaming himself watching his own movies, in reverse chronological order. All of them. Non-stop.
Left-wing online media giant Vox Media has just announced its new code of conduct, which includes “strong discouragement” against “microaggressions”, described by Vox as “subtle put-downs which may be unconsciously delivered.” “Regardless of intent, microaggressions can have a significant negative impact on
One of the many problems of advertising your hypersensitivity is that you will quickly become what the internet calls a ‘lolcow’ — a creature that can be milked again and again for easy laughs.
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind the hit Grand Theft Auto series, is taking unprecedented steps to curb unauthorised modifications of its game, according to reports from multiple modders.
Boing Boing, the group blog edited by Cory Doctorow, was once an icon for the hipster generation and a byword for successful blogging. Yet the progressive outlet’s foray into games journalism via Leigh Alexander’s Offworld vertical is foundering.
The Society of Professional Journalists today launched the Kunkel Awards, a new category to “recognise excellence in games journalism.” Named after pioneering games journalist Bill Kunkel, members of the public are invited to nominate their most admired games journalists for recognition over
