Move Your Domain Day is a domain name transferring initiative, initially in response to GoDaddy's support of the United States Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), first held on 29 December 2011, originating from a post on which American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website?
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Move Your Domain Day Move Your Domain Day is a domain name transferring initiative, initially in response to GoDaddy's support of the United States Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It was first held on 29 December 2011, originating from a post on Reddit and spearheaded by domain registrar Namecheap. In 2012, Namecheap began an initiative to make Move Your Domain Day an annual event. The second event was held on 22 January 2013. The third time was held on 5 February 2014. The fourth was held on 27 January 2015. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reddit, and domain registrars Name.com and Hover have also participated. Namecheap has defined the initiative as "an annual protest and a commemoration of sorts that will continue to shine a light on the issue of a free and open internet."
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Reddit Reddit ( ) is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Reddit's registered community members can submit content such as text posts or direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down that determines their position on the page. Submissions with the most up-votes appear on the front page or the top of a category. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". Subreddit topics include news, science, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, food, image-sharing, and many others. The site prohibits harassment, and moderation requires substantial resources.
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SemiAccurate SemiAccurate (S|A in short) is a U.S.-based technology-news and -opinion web site, founded in 2009 by Charlie Demerjian after his departure from "The Inquirer". The site lists as its contributors: Charlie Demerjian (the site's founder), Thomas Ryan and Leo Yim.
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Yookos Yookos is an online social networking site founded in 2011 by the leader of Christ Embassy International. It was initially used by church members, but later the site was expanded to allow public access. Yookos currently has around 10 million registered users worldwide. The site receives more than half of its traffic from Nigeria and the remaining user base is from Zimbabwe, South Africa, the UK and the US.
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Rally.org Rally.org is an American social online fundraising platform for use by a wide range of individuals and organizations. It allows users to set up their own fundraising page, through which supporters can find information about their campaigns and make donations through Rally.org's proprietary payment system. The platform is best known for its use by causes including the Make A Wish Foundation and Jon Bon Jovi's Hurricane Sandy relief effort, filmmakers including the director of "Buzkashi Boys", and political campaigns in the United States 2012 election cycle. In May 2012, Rally.org closed the largest Series A round of venture capital ever raised online. The company was founded in Austin, Texas, as Piryx, in 2009 by Tom Serres, Brian Upton, Jonas Lamis and Naveed Lalani.
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Internet Community Ports Act The Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA), created and advocated by The CP80 Foundation (aka "Clean Port 80"), is an approach to HTTP content filtering, leveraging TCP ports to segregate content between "Community Ports" and "Open Ports." "Community Ports" would be for content that is not considered "obscene or harmful" to children; "Open Ports" would be for all other content, including content only considered suitable for adults, such as pornography. According to the advocates of ICPA, this would enable an individual to, through their ISP's firewall, choose the content they want by port, allowing content or blocking out content individually. Advocates of ICPA would particularly like to remove "objectionable" content from Port 80, the standard port for World-Wide Web traffic (but by no means all Internet traffic, making the title somewhat of a misnomer).
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Stephanie Miller Stephanie Catherine Miller (born September 29, 1961) is an American political commentator, comedian, and host of "The Stephanie Miller Show", a liberal talk radio program produced in Los Angeles, California by WYD Media Management and syndicated nationally by Westwood One. In 2017, "Talkers Magazine" ranked her the 23rd most important radio talk show host in America. Miller has leveraged her talk show via various platforms including online, as well as via her "Sexy Liberal Tour" live comedy show.
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Scad (fraud) A scad is a scam disguised as an advertisement, usually in reference to internet spam. The term (which is a portmanteau of the words "scam" + "ad") has been used by the Alliance Against Bait and Click to describe scam ads that lure consumers to click on their site using a brand name or an outrageous deal while in turn providing suspect products and deals. This technique is called "bait and click" and has received significant press coverage from Consumer Reports Webwatch which has warned consumers to be wary of scads because they divert unsuspecting searchers from what they are looking for and waste their time. At worst, scads can send users to unsecured or malicious sites – exposing them to fraud, scams, viruses, exploits, trojans, malware, and spyware. Sponsored search results contain over twice as many risky sites as organic listings for the same search terms, according to a study by online security company McAfee. Scads exist in sponsored links and several have delivered Internet users to sites that charge for Firefox, a popular free web browser. One research study found that the display of a company's ads in response to searches for a competitor's brand name was not a widespread phenomenon.
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Redditgifts Redditgifts is an online gift exchange that connects Internet users (with Reddit accounts) around the world with one another. The site was launched in 2009 with 4,000 participants; the website reports 89,421 people worldwide participated in Secret Santa 2013. The site is a three-time Guinness World Record holder for the World's Largest Gift Exchange.
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TripAdvisor TripAdvisor, Inc., is an American travel website company providing hotel bookings as well as reviews of travel-related content. It also includes interactive travel forums.
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Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin ( ; born Jennifer Hamm; August 5, 1970) is an American weblogger, digital media commentator, and tech culture journalist. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog "Boing Boing", as a contributor to ""Wired" magazine" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as PBS NewsHour, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and ABC.
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Andrew Breitbart Andrew James Breitbart ( ; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American entrepreneur, conservative publisher, commentator for "The Washington Times", media critic, journalist, author, and television and radio personality on various news programs, who served as an editor for the "Drudge Report" website. He was a researcher for and close friend of Arianna Huffington, and he helped create an early version of "The Huffington Post".
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Intervasion of the UK The Intervasion of the UK was a 1994 electronic civil disobedience and collective action against John Major's Criminal Justice Bill which sought to outlaw outdoor dance festivals and "music with a repetitive beat". Launched by a group called The Zippies from San Francisco's 181 Club on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 1994, it resulted in government websites going down for at least a week. It utilised a form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) known as the Email bomb in order to overload servers as a form of online protest and Internet activism. It was the first such use of the Internet and technology as a weapon of struggle and/or civil disobedience, and preceded the . This fact has yet to be acknowledged by the Electronic Disturbance Theater which claims to have pioneered the technique or the Free Range Electrohippies in the United Kingdom, who appear to have taken most of the credit for the event.
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Digg Patriots The Digg Patriots were an online US conservative activist group which shared news stories and opinion articles on the then popular social media website, Digg. The group started as an invitation-only Yahoo! Groups email list after Digg removed inter-member Instant Messaging. Using a subscription mailing list service to replace Digg "shouts," members of the group shared links, and requested each other to vote up ("digg") or vote down ("bury") other members' submissions. This generated controversy after the mailing list was made public, with allegations that the group was "gaming the system".
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Defense.Net Defense.Net is a privately held American information technology and services company. The company's business is to protect Internet-facing infrastructures – such as e-commerce web sites – against all forms of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at the network. Defense.Net operates a constellation of DDoS mitigation sites around the Internet which are capable of filtering and removing DDoS attacks real-time.
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Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes The Facebook privacy and copyright hoaxes are a collection of similar internet hoaxes that claim that posting a status on social networking site Facebook constitutes a privacy notice that protects your posts on the site from copyright infringement or that provides privacy protection to their profile information and other content they have posted to the site. The hoax takes the form of a Facebook status that, when posted, urges others to post the same or a similar status. The hoax first became popular in May and June 2012, but has since re-appeared multiple times, including in November 2012 and then again in 2015, first in January and later in September of that year. All of the hoaxes are based on several misunderstandings, including, with respect to the privacy version, the fact that it incorrectly assumes that Facebook becoming a public company in May 2012 affects how it treats user information, the assumption that posting certain content online can protect someone from adverse legal consequences, and the fact that the hoax ignores that if Facebook wanted to significantly change its terms of service agreement, it would have to provide notification of these changes.
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Alt National Park Service Alt National Park Service is an activist coalition comprised mainly of U.S. National Park Service employees, as well as employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and others. The group formed after a press ban was enacted by President Donald J. Trump that limited the use of social media accounts, such as Twitter, by governmental agencies such as the EPA and the US Department of Interior. These social media accounts mainly post pro-environmental content, often centered around the issue of climate change.
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Demonoid Demonoid is a popular BitTorrent tracker and website that includes file-sharing related discussion forums and a searchable index for the tracker. The site has undergone intermittent periods of extended downtime due to the occasional need to move the server, generally caused by cancellation of ISP service due to local political pressure. In late 2013, the original Demonoid domain names came under the control of an unknown party, who launched a placeholder website promising the return of Demonoid and soliciting Bitcoin donations, and who in early 2014 began operating a tracker servicing the old Demonoid torrents.
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.bit .bit is a top-level domain that was created outside the most commonly used Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet, and is not sanctioned by the " Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN). The .bit domain is served via the cryptocurrency Namecoin infrastructure, which acts as an alternative, decentralized domain name system. Use of the .bit domain requires a copy of the Namecoin blockchain, a supporting public DNS server, or a web browser plug-in.
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OpenLeft OpenLeft was a political blog founded July 9, 2007 by Matt Stoller, Chris Bowers, originally of MyDD, and Mike Lux, a former official in the White House under President Bill Clinton Covering political and social issues from a progressive standpoint, it spearheaded a number of causes, including focusing attention and criticism on the Blue Dog Democrats and supporting net neutrality. The website's campaign garnered criticism from a number of Democrats, including Brian Baird.
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History Commons The History Commons is a web site and organization that documents events and issues of great social and political significance, focusing primarily on events and issues from the 1970s to the present day. The History Commons operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. It was originally sponsored by The Global Center, a 501(c)(3) organization, and is now operated by the Center for Grassroots Oversight, itself a 501(c)3 organization. The website was previously named Center for Cooperative Research, and was located at cooperativeresearch.org.
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Mike Godwin Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of Internet meme, as reported in the magazine "Wired" of October 1994. From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011 he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board. Godwin has served as a contributing editor of "Reason" magazine since 1994. He is currently general counsel and director of innovation policy at the R Street Institute.