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πŸ”— eBay Stalking Scandal

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— California πŸ”— Companies πŸ”— California/San Francisco Bay Area πŸ”— Internet πŸ”— Internet culture πŸ”— Business πŸ”— Crime and Criminal Biography

The eBay stalking scandal was a campaign conducted in 2019 by eBay and contractors. The scandal involved the aggressive stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers, Ina and David Steiner, who wrote frequent commentary about eBay on their website EcommerceBytes. Seven eBay employees pleaded guilty to charges involving criminal conspiracies. The seven employees included two senior members of eBay’s corporate security team. Two members of eBay's Executive Leadership Team who were implicated in the scandal were not charged.

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πŸ”— Clanker

πŸ”— Internet culture πŸ”— Science Fiction πŸ”— Robotics πŸ”— Discrimination πŸ”— English Language πŸ”— Star Wars πŸ”— Artificial Intelligence

"Clanker" is a derogatory term for robots and artificial intelligence (AI) software. The term has been used in Star Wars media, first appearing in the franchise's 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. By 2025, the term had become widely used to express hatred or distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models. This trend has been attributed to anxiety around the negative societal effects of AI.

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πŸ”— Social Bookmarking

πŸ”— Internet culture πŸ”— Websites πŸ”— Websites/Computing

Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, allowing users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies known as folksonomies.