Skip to content

Thought Portal

A blog of the media I am consuming

Thought Portal

A blog of the media I am consuming

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Follow
  • Resources
    • Home
    • internet
    • Page 2
Articles

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

August 11, 2025

Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia…

Articles

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago

August 4, 2025

Ted Litchfield, a journalist at PC Gamer, noted that the “nearly 500 other rape and incest games” figure Collective Shout cites in its own timeline of the campaign doesn’t make…

Articles

Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet

July 30, 2025

A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of…

Articles

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

July 30, 2025

Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify they’re over 18 to view "certain age restricted content," and users are reporting seeing a popup on Spotify to verify their…

Articles

ADL-Backed Bipartisan Bill Threatens to Censor Israel Criticism on Social Media

July 28, 2025

The bill’s lead sponsors described it as part of an effort to prevent antisemitic hate. But their comments during a press conference on the measure suggest it will also target…

Articles

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam’s new censorship rules in victory against ‘porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists’, and things only get weirder from there

July 22, 2025

Collective Shout, an Australian anti-pornography group, has claimed credit for Steam's recent removal of a large number of sexually explicit games and new, stricter moderation guidelines regarding such material. In…

Podcasts

Neil Young’s iPod Killer

July 19, 2025

A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.

Podcasts

Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)

July 10, 2025

Where did the Internet go wrong, and how do we fix it? To find out more, we talk to entrepreneur and activist Anil Dash about the alternate history of technology.…

Articles

Getting off US tech is no easy task

June 24, 2025

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort

Articles tiktok

White House and DHS Share Image Apparently Created by White Nationalist

June 19, 2025

On Wednesday, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda poster on official accounts on X and Instagram.

Posts pagination

1 2 3 … 7

« Previous Page — Next Page »

Categories

  • Articles
  • Books
  • Comics
  • Fiction
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Podcasts
  • Poetry
  • Recipes
  • tiktok
  • TV
  • Video
  • Zines

Thought Portal

A blog of the media I am consuming

Copyright © All rights reserved | Blogus by Themeansar.