Zuckerberg dead at 39? No post fact checking says child molester Mark Zuckerberg? Websites test Facebook’s policy of free speech.

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Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…

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Ever wonder if those hitman sites on the Dark Web are real?

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Here’s the answer to at least one “hitman” service provider on the Dark Web.  BesaMafia offer contract kills and other forms of intimidation for a price.  Today it was announced they were closed for business with an explanation on their now-defunct hidden service.

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Reddit’s r/technology downgraded after bizarre censorship practices discovered

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The popular geek subreddit r/technology has been caught censoring posts in what forum moderators are calling “a disaster” for the board. Reddit today removed the “default subreddit” status from r/technology meaning it has lost its “preferred” standing, a status only afforded to two dozen Reddit communities. The move was made after Reddit admins found r/technology…

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Why some ISPs are throttling Netflix and what you can do about it

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It’s no longer just a theory – despite their denials, major ISPs are ignoring net neutrality rules and throttling Netflix bandwidth and Netflix has the proof in hand which they provide through their publicly-available monthly statistics reports. Here’s how to find out if you’re being throttled by your ISP, why ISPs throttle network traffic from…

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