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The web is real life

Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan, and Eric Shook (Illinois): Mapping the Global Twitter Heartbeat: The Geography of Twitter. Jonathan R. Foltz (Indiana): Leave the Internet Alone: What the F.C.C. Can Do, Market Forces Can Do Better. An Internet sales tax will not restrict your freedom: The web is real life, where people pay their fair share — eBay users should, too. Where have all the leaking sites gone? Remaining WikiLeaks clones offer lessons for the future. Mimi Ito on what teens get about the Internet that parents don't. A thousand words: The Internet has become a place of tremendous hate and rage — but it’ll clean itself up. Cole Stryker on the problem with public shaming: Unmasking racists and trolls on the Internet may feel like justice, but it does not drive social progress. The Twidiocracy: Matt Labash on the decline of Western civilization, 140 characters at a time.