Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien

The combination of Google Image Search, Photoshop, and Facebook is a dangerous one, providing web users with the ability to seek out swaths of copyrighted visual material, rip and manipulate these pictures so the original source is obscured, then share the freshly “remixed” images to a broad audience with no fear of legal action.

In the wake of the recent nude celebrity photo leak, I noticed something strange about the ways different publications skewed their coverage. Tabloid-style publications tended to be honest about their motives. The behaviour of left-leaning broadsheet-style outlets, however, was more complex.

On every page of Ello, the self-described ‘simple, beautiful and ad-free’ social network, is a link to their “manifesto”. The manifesto-based startup represents a shift in how we understand online services, allowing founders to obscure a new service’s crude or derivative feature set behind an inspirational, jargon-filled call-to-arms.

I attended the World Congress of Families and discovered that pro-lifers feel just as misunderstood as their pro-choice counterparts.

Considering hate group Page administrators have access to a ‘cheat sheet’, the idea that repeatedly reporting offensive content to Facebook constitutes an effective form of political action may be a flawed one.