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• Gawker founder Nick Denton believes the 'good internet will rise up again'

  12-03-2017 20:15
  
  “Facebook makes me despise many of my friends and Twitter makes me hate the rest of the world,” Gawker founder Nick Denton said.
  The publishing pioneer, who connected with fellow bloggers at South by Southwest in the early days of web publishing, returned to the festival Sunday to reflect on the demise of his company and what lies ahead for the internet in the years after Donald Trump’s presidential election. The future isn’t Facebook or Twitter, where fake news and trol
  
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• Father of the Web cites 3 big concerns about his 28-year-old baby

  12-03-2017 15:30
  
  Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who 28 years ago this March 12 submitted a document laying out his vision for what would become the worldwide web, is proud of what his creation has become but he's also concerned enough about certain issues that he's released an open letter about them today through the Web Foundation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Senator Cory Booker on tech regulations and social media slacktivism: ‘We cannot get left behind’

  12-03-2017 04:22
  U.S. Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey isn’t ready to talk about his rumored campaign for presidency in 2020, but he did sit down with Google’s senior counsel on civil and human rights Malika Saada Saar at South by Southwest on Friday to talk about the power of human connection and social justice. Oh, and tech’s influence on modern-day politics during, what he called, one of the most fear-based eras he’s ever seen. 
  “These [last few months] are some of the d
  
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