A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
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Why is YouTube removing dislikes on The White House Channel?
The website https://81m.org/ has developed a tool to periodically check the latest videos uploaded to the Official White House YouTube channel using YouTube's API, and counts the increases of likes/dislikes. It then observes for any decreases in…
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Is the Airtel music ad the most streamed song and most downloaded ringtone?
This image was forwarded to me on Whatsapp
The Airtel Music Ad composed by A R Rahman was the Most Streamed Song in the World in the Year 2005-2009. Also it is the Most Downloaded Ringtone in the World all time. Most Amazing Fact about this Airtel…
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How much rational is RationalWiki?
RationalWiki is a wikimedia platform based website which claimed purpose is (see its mainpage):
Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
Documenting the full range of crank ideas;
Explorations of authoritarianism and…
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Can all administrative procedures except getting married or getting divorced be done online in Estonia?
I have read this quote in http://www.businessinsider.com/guardtime-estonian-health-records-industrial-blockchain-bitcoin-2016-3:
Mike Gault, co-founder and CEO of Guardtime, told Business Insider: "The only thing that you can’t do online in Estonia…
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Did "MP3" surpass "sex" as the most-searched term online in 1999?
In MP3: The Definitive Guide by Scot Hacker, published by O'Reilly in 2000, the author claims:
In April of 1999, the term "MP3" surpassed "sex" as the most-searched-on term at some of the Internet's top search engines. (source)
Is this the case?…
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Does Elon Musk's Starlink system play a significant role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The DW article Ukraine is using Elon Musk's Starlink for drone strikes about the use of Starlink to provide internet in Ukraine is suggesting that it is playing a role in, e.g., the way president Zelenskyi is able to make live calls to so many…
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Is Gina Haspel wanted in Europe?
In a tweet from Randy Kennedy, then shared on Facebook by Girl du Jour (and then others) it is claimed that President Trump's pick to head the CIA - Gina Haspel - is wanted in Europe for "war crimes". The posts don't specifically say, but presumably…
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Is Snopes.com in Danger of Shutting down?
According to SaveSnopes, the Snopes fact-checking web-site is in trouble because a service provider is refusing to hand-over advertising revenue for the site.
Snopes.com, ... is in danger of closing its doors. So, for the first time in our…
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Does the F-word constitute a third of all swearing on the internet?
This youtube video (created as part of a series of short programmes for the UK's Channel Four television called Susie Dent's guide to Swearing) claims (around 3:08 in) that the word "fuck" makes up about a third of all swearing on the internet.
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Was #itAintRape every used seriously to justify rape?
The #ItsNotRape hashtag has gotten a bit of attention for its supposed condoning of rape.
However, when I checked out the hashtag the only content I could find scanning quite a ways back were tweets basically saying that it is rape unless one has…
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Does speedtest.net give an unbiased answer?
Every time I use it, it always seems to give exactly the speed my ISP is advertising +-1%, whereas other services (that actually do something, but happen to report the speed at which they do so) have only half or less the speed. Also it doesn't seem…
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Are seven keys able to turn off the internet?
Are seven keys able to turn off the internet?
I had recently researched the possibility of turning off the internet, and found an explanation in another forum: How to take down the internet?
The distributed nature of the internet makes it really…
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Do Alex Jones' videos get thousands of views?
Alex Jones, after being kicked off YouTube, has found a new home: Banned.video. And the view-counter over there seems very suspicious: it shows each video having thousands of views. And each time I refresh a video, no matter which one it is, it…
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Do the owners of the typefaces Garamond, Times New Roman and Georgia charge businesses who use them?
I received this in the Product Hunt newsletter today:
Little known fact: your favorite fonts aren't free.
The owners of your favorite fonts – Garamond, Times New Roman, Georgia – charge businesses who use their font on their website, app, and…
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Does OnlyFans have a no 'extreme fisting' policy in their terms of service?
YouTuber ADoseOfBuckley recently published a video that discussed censorship and the video subscription service, OnlyFans.
At 6m39, he shows what he purports to be an excerpt from the OnlyFans Terms of Service. While he doesn't mention it, the text…
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