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  1. Last 7 days
    1. 4Chan has various image-sharing bulletin boards, where users post anonymously. Perhaps the most infamous board is the “/b/” board for “random” topics. This board emphasizes “free speech” and “no rules” (with exceptions for child pornography and some other illegal content). In these message boards, users attempt to troll each other and post the most shocking content they can come up with. They also have a history of collectively choosing a target website or community and doing a “raid” where they all try to join and troll and offend the people in that community.

      With the ability to remain anonymous, people will most likely post something borderline horrific or something that near violating the policy without any consequences. This also leads to cyberbullying and exposes the personal information of other people without that person knowing.

    1. Graffiti and other notes left on walls were used for sharing updates, spreading rumors, and tracking accounts Books and news write-ups had to be copied by hand, so that only the most desired books went “viral” and spread

      I want to add that there are also other ways that people used to share news and updates. Commonly, people would send mail and letters, but some would use carrier pigeons to tie a letter on their ankle to send out messages. Additionally, there are also the Bellmen who will stand in the middle of the town and yell out the current news and updates.

  2. Jan 2026
    1. In addition to representing data with different data storage methods, computers can also let you add additional constraints on what can be saved. So, for example, you might limit the length of a tweet to 280 characters, even though the computer can store longer strings.

      Data constraint plays a really important role in many social media platforms as they help set realistic boundaries when a person fills out their personal information. This also helps companies keep a record of what age the users usually are that uses their social media. Moreover, it all help prevent any possible trolls who will put random informations just to use the social media.

    1. Images are created by defining a grid of dots, called pixels. Each pixel has three numbers that define the color (red, green, and blue), and the grid is created as a list (rows) of lists (columns).

      The pixels that only have three color components have always made me really curious, as there is only green, blue,e and red, ed but once they are in a group,oup tcane to create a whole new different color that sometimes seems impossible. Additionally, one of the most intruiging thing about these grids is that with only these three colors, they can create the color white.

    1. Bots present a similar disconnect between intentions and actions. Bot programs are written by one or more people, potentially all with different intentions, and they are run by others people, or sometimes scheduled by people to be run by computers. This means we can analyze the ethics of the action of the bot, as well as the intentions of the various people involved, though those all might be disconnected.

      I believe it is crucial to analyze the intentions of the various people involved, as they are the root of how a bot behaves online. This also draws back to the fact that all actions made by the bots should be traced back to the programmers, as bots are not autonomous and do not know the difference between right and wrong; only the people who are giving them instructions know.

    1. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others. For example, people use bots to spam advertisements at people. You can use bots as a way of buying fake followers, or making fake crowds that appear to support a cause (called Astroturfing)

      In addition to bots that were made to spam advertisements or as a way for influencers to gain more followers, some bots can help some influencers gain more recognition. Aside from just followers, some will buy bots just to comment on their posts or share them, which can make them seem more popular, leading them to appear on more people's feeds and social media, thus gaining more real-life followers.

    1. We also see this phrase used to say that things seen on social media are not authentic, but are manipulated, such as people only posting their good news and not bad news, or people using photo manipulation software to change how they look.

      I would like to disagree on this because posting about their good news and manipulating their photo are two different things. While one states something that actually happened, manipulating photos is just being deceptive. Additionally, who would actually post about their bad news, given the fact that they might get made fun of by other people, and a majority of those would not receive consequences.

    1. Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others). These traits are often performed and achieved through ceremonies and rituals (including sacrificing to ancestors, music, and tea drinking), resulting in a harmonious society.

      While these ethics have good intentions, they often do not result in a harmonious society. The reason is that it gives those specific people a lot of power and authority, and people would abuse that authority for their own needs. But since people want to be seen as exemplary people and don't want to disrupt society, they would not dare to question or go against those specific people