society

There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up, Facebook!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 31, 2011 at 10:49 am PT

It’s official: Seven billion people are alive in the world at this moment, a high population point of all time. And they are more digital than ever.

Wael Ghonim: Egypt Was "Revolution 2.0" (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 11, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

“If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet,” Egyptian activist and Google executive Wael Ghonim said today.

Green Dam Gets the Red Light

John Paczkowski in News on June 30, 2009 at 6:39 am PT

China’s youth must face the corrupting influence of Internet porn without government guidance for a brief while longer. The Chinese government said Tuesday it will delay enforcing a new requirement that all new computers sold in the country include Green Dam/Youth Escort Web-filtering software.