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Turkish Internet Control
Turkish citizens today have not-so-distant memories of government officials and police breaking into their homes, looking under beds and...
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Mar 31, 20147 min read


Hate Gone Viral
“Jew, leave! France is not yours!” This was the rallying cry of up to 120,000 protesters on January 26. The protest, dubbed the Jour de...
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Mar 11, 20143 min read


Wi-Fi in the City
In Greensboro, NC there is a day center for the homeless called the Interactive Resource Center. The IRC assists people who are homeless...
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Feb 10, 20142 min read


Do You Know What You’re Yelling About? The D.C. Circuit and Net Neutrality
On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and...
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Feb 7, 20146 min read


Politico Magazine is a Feminist Nightmare
There. You clicked it. The rest of this column doesn’t even matter. But while I have you here, I might as well explain myself. No, I...
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Nov 26, 20133 min read


Online Subterfuge: Silk Road, Tor and Bitcoins
As an undergraduate, the FBI closing of the Silk Road anonymous marketplace may not affect you beyond your drug supply or your easy...
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Nov 13, 20135 min read


Supply Side Part II: Getting Women to Pursue Computer Science
A couple weeks ago, I mocked Twitter CEO Dick Costolo for citing a “supply-side problem” recruiting female employees (and, crucially,...
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Oct 29, 20134 min read


The Supply-Side Fallacy: Women, Entrepreneurship, and Catering to the Real Audience
Twitter, my preferred source for weird Pokémon quotes, Marxist sex tips, and pictures of baby animals, made headlines last week for...
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Oct 15, 20134 min read


Breaking Bytes: Illicit Economies in the Internet Age
Warning: Contains Breaking Bad Spoilers For those of us that watched Breaking Bad, the recent bust of the Silk Road online illicit...
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Oct 7, 20135 min read


He Said, She Said, China Censored: Beijing’s Crackdown on Internet “Rumors”
The Internet, a virtual space existing somewhere beyond the physical world, has become an engine for actual, tangible change. From Cairo...
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Sep 26, 20135 min read


BPR Interview: Stephen Baker, Author of “The Numerati”
Stephen Baker is a former senior writer and technology correspondent for BusinessWeek and the author of “Final Jeopardy” and “The...
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Jul 1, 20131 min read


The Three C’s
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers...
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May 15, 20134 min read
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