internet incidents

I'm honestly not sure which sub-forum to put this in. :confused: But: Stripe Discriminates Against Witches Payment processing companies decide who is empowered to buy and sell online—and their policies show a gross misunderstanding of metaphysical practitioners...

There are reportedly issues with Fastly which provides cloud computing. UK government websites have 503 errors. https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1402210037553041409?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet edited to add..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

Looks like a major outage at Facebook currently, the whole site seems to be down.

Author and CNN analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, has been suspended. After 7 months of Covid lockdown it seems some people still do not understand how Zoom meetings work. During a meeting, Toobin Jr. (so to speak) made an appearance. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/media/jeffrey-toobin-suspended/index.html

It's been going on for days now, aimed at financial institutions other than banks. Banks went through this a few years back, but their systems can hold out against anything less than state-sponsored attacks, so the scammers have taken it down half a notch, aiming at NZX, PayPal, WorldPay and...

Twitter are undertaking a crackdown on conspiracy theory related content on their platform https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-accounts-limits-150-000-others-n1234541 Let the Freeze Peach teeth-gnashing begin!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822 I see Bitcoin spiked a little during the last 24 hours, which may be related.

David Icke has been kicked off Facebook, apparently, after claiming that 5G mobile networks prevent people absorbing oxygen, Germany is legalizing rape for Moslems and the Jews started the coronavirus pandemic. I don't blame Facebook; while loss of freedom of speech is a bad thing, I don't think...

Police arrest 30 pedophiles in just one Virginia county as part of a 'Covid crackdown' operation set up to help protect children who are vulnerable to online abuse while taking classes on the internet...

Facebook blames 'technical issue' for offensive Xi Jinping translation You'll have to go to the link to read the actual word, but it's one that Donald Trump recently used to describe poor third-world countries, as in "******** countries."

Seems bizarre, but what is it really? Who wrote it? ETA: I voted "Troll".

This one's almost too rich for words. Basically, young man at college football game holds up sign asking for more beer money and including his Venmo account name. Sign gets shown on ESPN's gameday, and whaddya know, a day or so later young man discovers that there's $600 in the account. So he...

From The Guardian: Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator Worth clicking through for the full article. It's pretty disturbing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1145092125639368704 The best people.

Watch Zuckerberg confess: “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.” Except it's not him. Videos faking people out has moved ahead another step. What goes around comes around. The Zuckerberg...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-bans-far-right-groups-including-bnp-edl-and-britain-first Not sure if this is a UK only thing; all the organisations and people referred to are UK based. Is this happening in other countries too?

https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/ It gets worse as you read on.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/staffer-who-doxed-republican-senators-faces-nearly-50-years-in-federal-prison "The former Democratic congressional staffer who posted personal information about Republican senators online faces nearly 50 years in prison. Jackson Cosko, a 27-year-old...

(Slate) Reddit's r/AskHistorians mod on Holocaust denial: "We ban it immediately." Wasn't sure where to put this, but might as well do it here. Mods, feel free to move to a more appropriate subforum if there is one...

https://www.mediaite.com/online/lgbtq-group-rescinds-award-for-joy-reid-after-homophobic-blog-posts-revealed/ "The LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National has rescinded Joy Ann Reid’s allyship award in light of Mediaite‘s report on newly unearthed homophobic posts from the MSNBC pundit’s old blog...

Louise Linton is a British actress, married to treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Over the past few days she has made his life a little harder than it should. First she hash-tagged the designers she was wearing as she got off a US Airforce executive jet. At best it was a bit insensitive towards...

This seems bizarre to me. Snopes is reported to have been hijacked. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/07/24/1929214/fact-checking-and-rumor-dispelling-site-snopescom-held-hostage-by-vendor https://www.savesnopes.com/ I wouldn't have thought that something like this would be so hard to resolve.

U.N. Ambassador Haley gets backlash after tweeting about July 4 work forgetting just how many US military are also working on the 4th. The reply was swift:

A study by psychologists headed by Dr John Synott identifying what they call the behaviour of 'on-line trolls' is published in the June 2017 edition, Pages 70–78, of 'Computers in Human Behavior'. The 'highlights' are as follows: The abstract is as follows: Source and where the full paper...

Trump supporters attempted to get the hashtag #ThankYouTrump to trend on Twitter, only to have it be hijacked by people pointing out facts and thanking Trump for things his supporters likely wouldn't appreciate. A lovely sampling is included in the link if you care to be amused and saddened all...

Martin Shkreli lost his Twitter account, evidently for That Guy-ing a female journalist who had rejected his request for a date. After his banning, he changed his Periscope streaming profile to feature the same stalky images that got him punished by Twitter, and was eventually kicked off...

... to play an elaborately produced, full-screen, full-neo-Nazi campaign ad for Donald Trump. (I definitely don't recommend going there to watch it...) ETA update: The site is temporarily offline now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/us-formally-accuses-russia-of-stealing-dnc-emails.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Removing any shred of a doubt as to why Trump is running and what will happen. If Trump becomes President, Putin will run America.

Australia's 5 yearly census is the first time that Australians had to fill out online (although people could still get a paper form on request). In spite of the Australian Bureau of Statistics promising that it could handle the demand and spending $325,000 to test the load on the system, the...

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/unmasking-a-troll-aussie-jihadist-australi-witness-a-20-year-old-american-nerd/ar-AAeb2w2?li=AA4RE4 Yet again we see what happens when a 'hacktavist' believes that they will not suffer the consequences of their actions, this world is in enough of a mess...