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Do you want to protest your company’s crappy record on sexual harassment? Are you thinking of unionizing? Here’s the Motherboard Guide to Secure Labor Organizing.
Facebook, Google and other major tech firms were every student’s dream workplaces. Until they weren’t.
Developers are protesting after revelations that the source-code repository GitHub contracted with ICE. But if you restrict access to open-source code, is it still open?
Employees allegedly violated the company’s communications policies
Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
What a fight over the local library in my hometown in rural Arkansas taught me about my neighbors’ go-it-alone mythology — and Donald Trump’s unbeatable appeal.
On Indymedia and independent "news with an agenda."
Whistleblowing ain't sustainable. Sigh.
Researchers on Saturday published a database of what they said were racist, intolerant, or otherwise offensive Facebook posts by hundreds of current and former Philadelphia Police officers.
Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don’t be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?
The North Dakota Student Association has been working on a “Student Data Privacy and Security Bill of Rights.”Student Association president Jared Melville…
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.
A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. It is nonjudgmental. It stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture. It is defiantly, proudly, communal. The sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds us that libraries were once called palaces for the people. Klinenberg is interested in the ways that common spaces can repair our fractious and polarized civic life. And though he argues in his new book that playgrounds, sporting clubs, diners, parks, farmer’s markets, and churches—anything, really, that puts people in close contact with one another—have the capacity to strengthen what Tocqueville called the cross-cutting ties that bind us to those who in many ways are different from us, he suggests that libraries may be the most effective.