You have your good history and you have your bad history — and both kinds are mashed up here this week on Pop Tech Jam. The violent protests in Charlottesville last weekend were amplified in all directions thanks to social media and the technology industry finds itself entwined with current events, as El Kaiser and J.D. discuss. A few other headlines from the tech world managed to get attention as well. But at the end of the day, if you just want to curl up and spend some of your free time in a happy place, the Internet Archive has some new treats to explore. Peace out, Jammers. We’ll be back in September.
Links to Stories in This Week’s Episode
- Google Domains, GoDaddy blacklist white supremacist site Daily Stormer (Ars Technica)
- Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer (Business Insider)
- Did Anonymous bring down The Daily Stormer? (Snopes)
- Yes, You’re Racist: Twitter user names Virginia protesters (CNet)
- Discord shuts down alt-right server and accounts for ToS violations (TechCrunch)
- Charlottesville is reshaping the fight against online hate (The Verge)
- ‘March on Google’ releases code of conduct after Charlottesville violence (The Hill)
- March on Google
- In J20 Investigation, DOJ overreaches again. And gets taken to court again. (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- We Fight for the Users (DreamHost)
- U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data (Reuters)
- Facebook adds a link to Trending News in the app’s main menu (Engadget)
- Upcoming changes of Opera Max (Opera blog)
- Snapchat’s newest feature is a game changer for concerts (Mashable)
- KGI: Apple Watch 3 to come in LTE and non-LTE models, no obvious form factor change (9to5Mac)
- Need something extra fast? Amazon Instant Pickup launches this week (Amazon)
- A ginger haired emoji is coming to a phone near you soon (BBC News)
- Galaxy Magazine collection at the Internet Archive (Internet Archive)
- Philly company digitizes 25,000 old records and they’re free to download (Newsworks)
- 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. (Internet Archive)
- The Great 78 Project (Internet Archive)
