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Does the Internet create fetishes, or just enable them?

What’s the deal with the findom fetish—was it always here? Or is the Internet actually changing human sexuality?

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How the hottest new fandom is changing entertainment forever

Night Vale’s fandom embodies all that’s powerful about entertainment online. 

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Honor among thieves in the Deep Web

How the criminal community of HackBB was rocked by its own hacking—and revelead the community’s nature. 

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Edward Snowden and the new checks and balances of the Internet

The Internet—a community that cannot be controlled—is today’s counterweight to power. 

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Dot Dot Dot: Is the tweet mightier than the sword?

The view from Texas is pretty inspiring. At least for the moment, the Internet is supercharging democracy. 

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How will we face digitized mass destruction?

The electronic front is already the great active front in global conflicts. 

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Dot Dot Dot: Caught in the freedom of the Web

The freedom of the Web is its greatest strength and biggest problem. How do we navigate between?

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Dot Dot Dot: When Reddit becomes the news

A lot happened in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon that has us thinking about how news gets reported in the age of social media. 

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A trash can explodes, and the Internet races to help (and harm)

The Internet raced to respond to the tragedy of the Boston Marathon explosion, it all its light and dark colors. 

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Sex crimes and the Internet: A victim’s worst fear and best hope

Who will be the next Rehtaeh Parsons? And is the Internet making things worse, or better, or both?

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Dot Dot Dot: Are bitcoins the next seismic shift?

From marriage equality to bitcoins, there’s some big shifts in the Wild West of the Internet these days. 

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Dot Dot Dot: Your keyboard just might change the world

Now you can start a company by asking for $5 investments. And what’s more, those $5 investments are actually meaningful.

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Anything is possible (especially at SXSW)

SXSW is changing the world. And it has a particularly special place in the heart of all Daily Dotters. 

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Dot Dot Dot: From guns and ammo to bits and bytes

There’s a new kind of world war going on. And a new kind of weapon needed. 

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Dot Dot Dot: Are LOLcats Pop art or Internet detritus?

“Wasting” time—the provence of the Internet and great art alike. Who’s to say which is which?

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