In 2016, a “troll storm” hit Tanya Gersh, a Jewish wedding planner and real estate agent in Montana. The storm began when Andrew Anglin, the editor of the Neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer, published her photo, phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, including one belonging to her young son. Her phone rang incessantly, and she received death threats at her work email along with hundreds of anti-Semitic messages, including a Photoshopped image of her family superimposed above a Nazi concentration camp....

Apost from Google+ Games product manager, Satyajeet Salgar, sparked an interesting discussion revolving around the use of hashtags outside of Twitter. Having already comparedthe dos and don’ts of Twitter hashtagsin the past, I found it interesting that some users have taken to using hashtags outside of the platform where, for the most part, they seem to have no use. Hashtags are a particularly useful tool on Twitter where users can search for the symbol to follow up on conversations or collective ideas on a keyword....

As iPhone in Canada’s blogdiscovered, arecent articlefrom Maclean’s, criticized the government for announcing its concerns with the CRTC’s (Canadian Radio-Television Commission) decision onusage based billingviaTwitter, a topic that quickly exploded across the web by the use of social media. Maclean’sarticletitled “The Internet should be fair—not free—to everyone”, highlights theprosof usage based billing and points out that “Access to the Internet is thus like most other things in life: it has a real cost, and if you want more you should expect to pay more”, and dispraises the conservative government for using social media as a form of communicating with the Canadian public....

The last couple of weeks have been momentous for politicians, community and religious leaders, and activists as they flew to attend COP26 to stop the world imploding intodoomsday scenarios. No sector was safe — transport, overpopulation (ok, maybe not a sector per se), meat and dairy, or forest logging — from the ire of people desperate to assign blame. One thing that attracted plenty of wrath is flying — and I’m part of the problem....

Does Microsoft need Bing, and the massive losses that it entails? Or would the company be better off jettisoning it, taking a piece of the new independent Bing, and walking away? It depends on who you ask. An opinion piece that landed onboth Reutersandthe NYTimes websiteargues that Microsoft would be in an improved fiscal spot without Bing, as its negative profits are hurting the company’s bottom line. They posit that sans Bing, Microsoft could boost its total profit by a hefty amount, 10% even if the company dropped its entire Online Systems division....