The rejection of the ‘Hinder’ app is a symptom of the tech giant’s ongoing hostility toward reproductive rights

The early capitalists once had to breathe the air that they polluted in pursuit of their wealth. Now, perhaps, they can escape it by leaving the planet

The Socality Barbie account highlights the phoniness of self-presentation. It feels familiar because we do it every day

Most of our books and movies set in the future are dystopian, which makes it hard to work toward something better

Finding an email address in the leaked cheating database yields no new answers – just new questions

The internet forces you to consider more people’s needs more deeply, become aware of the variety of human traumas, motives, histories and concerns

Google’s habit of naming its companies after everyday nouns could alter people’s access to information by dominating search results

As early internet users move into middle age and beyond, we can’t expect our youth – digital or otherwise – to be accessible forever

Most of us don’t care much about security, because it’s a hassle. But it’s not just for unfaithful spouses or sexters

Twitter nags can drain so much of an activist’s time and energy that she has little left for work that moves her cause forward

By their logic, crowdfunding for the cop who shot Michael Brown is fine, but a Kickstarter for a feminist coloring book is a travesty

Being required to flaunt the imagery of your enemy if you want to attack them might just make the attack lose its appeal

We have a hard time passing up something that appeals to both our sentimentality and our egotism

Good luck getting angry at an avocado and keeping your dignity intact

We gravitate toward cute animal snippets to break up online doom

In the early days of the internet, not piping up immediately was practically a requirement. It’s too bad that’s not the case anymore

Social media gives people a megaphone. But if companies keep giving that megaphone to trolls intending to hurt people, they start to look complicit

Activism of this kind is an easy way to make privileged personal grumpiness into a public spectacle – and look like an idiot in the process

Repeat after me: “That’s just, like, your opinion, man”

When Joss Whedon left Twitter this week, the internet exploded in a riot of finger-pointing. You can avoid that