Manjunath Kiran / AFP / Getty Images The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released their long-anticipated ruling on net neutrality in India. The regulators have ruled against differential and discriminatory pricing of mobile data on the basis of content. This ruling will affect Free Basics — Facebook’s controversial plan to offer free, but […]
Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That’s A Problem
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For many people, this is […]
10% Of All Internet Phone Calls Now Happen Through Facebook
The company is getting huge in areas outside its core social network. Each day its apps are responsible for 45 billion messages, and 4 billion video views. Facebook is a social network. And a messaging service. And a collaboration tool. And a video player. And a phone. The company, which has long described itself as […]
Adam D’Angelo On Quora And The Future Of The Internet
The CEO of Quora and first chief technology officer of Facebook sits down with BuzzFeed News to talk about where Quora and the broader internet is headed in 2015. Larry Wong In the past couple of years, how have you seen the way people communicate on the Internet change over time? Adam D'Angelo: Things are […]
A User’s Guide To Dealing With Trolls On The Internet
Here is your hazmat suit for the toxic garbage dump known as the ‘net. (Technically, an ogre, but let's just be chill about it.) Dreamworks 2014 has been an especially bad year to exist as a human on the internet. It's felt as though a fog of animosity rolled in and engulfed all our interactions; […]
The Slavoj Žižek Dress-Up Game Is The Best Thing On The Internet Today
Welcome to the Dress Up Of the Real . This is the ursine celebrity philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is known for outrageous and contrarian arguments. He's kinda like the Slate of philosophers. Andy Miah/Creative Commons / Via Flickr: andymiah But now, thanks to Welcome To The Dress Up of the Real, you can pick out […]
The Internet Cares Much More About Nicki Minaj’s Butt Than Kim Kardashian’s Butt
This Google data proves it. Jishai Evers/Dadaviz / Via dadaviz.com In the last 24 hours, you've likely seen Kim Kardashian's shiny planetoid of a butt. But while the massive interest generated by this most recent assplosion may seem huge, Kim's keister can hardly hold (clench?) a candle in comparison to the assquakes caused by the […]