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Posts Tagged: digital hygiene

A Genealogy Of LiveLeak: From Transgressive Teen To Mannered Man

By Maurice Dharampal, June 17, 2021

In early May 2021, the internet lost a controversial yet vital part of its history. Seemingly out of the blue, video hosting platform LiveLeak shut down. It was a staple website for gore content, especially among millennials or other early internet users, and for its information transparency and unrestricted censorship to citizen journalists, whistleblowers and [...]

A Theory of Digital Hygiene

By Maurice Dharampal, May 12, 2021

…Cleanliness is godliness And God is empty just like me. – Zero by The Smashing Pumpkins (1996) Cleanliness is next to Godliness Since the COVID-19 pandemic, our interaction with the digital has increased to never-before-seen heights. Along with it identity theft, hacks, the ‘misinfodemic’, data breaches, phishing, and other cyber risks all skyrocketed as result. [...]

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