Category: Wired
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Women use misogynistic terms on Twitter almost as often as men (Wired UK)
An analysis of online misogyny reveals that many thousands of women are willing to engage in discourses using language and launching attacks that are, fundamentally, derogatory to their own gender Woman onlineShutterstock Caroline Criado-Perez, Stella Creasy, Mary Beard, Hadley Freeman, Grace Dent, Amanda Hess, Catherine Mayer. The roll call of prominent women […]
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DC Comics hero The Flash speeds to screen in series teaser (Wired UK)
The first in-costume action footage of The Flash has aired, teasing the character’s own show later this year. The CW has aired the first teaser for its upcoming series The Flash, which spins off from the popular superhero drama Arrow. Broadcast after the finale to the second season of Arrow last […]
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Why doesn’t Google give individuals the right to reply? (Wired UK)
Instead of giving people the right to be forgotten, why doesn’t Google give people the right to reply? Shutterstock The Court of Justice of the EU’s ruling that people do have the ‘right to be forgotten’ and as such can ask Google to delink articles from its search results, […]
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What we can salvage from ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling (Wired UK)
Mr G, a Spanish citizen, has a right to ask Google to delink from search a 16-year-old newspaper article about repossession of his home antb / Shutterstock.com Shakespeare’s great villain Iago spoke of reputation as “an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving”. […]