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http://stream.aljazeera.com/

Last activity: 05.04.2016

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Jul 24, 2015	Centre for the Analysis of Social Media: Technology, Terrorism & Online Behaviour	This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website. Having recently hosted the Orwell Prize-nominated author, Jamie Bartlett as a guest speaker for our team away day, we got in touch with the Centre for the Analysis of Social M...
Jun 30, 2014	Anonymous Declared War on the Islamic State	Image. Wikimedia Commons While it's known the Iranian Quds Force is aiding the Iraqi army and American armed drones currently patrol the skies above Baghdad, the list entities fighting the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Iraq just got ...
May 24, 2014	Pakistan: At the edge of the abyss?	The recent murder of a brave human rights lawyer Rashid Rehman reminds us of the society we have shaped. It is now an unregulated space where even defending the rights of an accused is a crime. Rehman had made all the threats, including tho...
Nov 29, 2013	The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protests	On Wednesday, the Spanish government announced a draft proposal to introduce anti-protest measures that would make Russia’s handling of activists look magnanimous in comparison. If passed, the bill will penalize many accepted forms of peace...
Nov 22, 2013	The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protest	Photos by Felipe Hernandez and Gatnau Fornell Ramon On Wednesday, the Spanish government announced a draft proposal to introduce anti-protest measures that would make Russia’s handling of activists look magnanimous in comparison. If passed,...
Jun 21, 2013	UPDATED: Kickstarter Speaks After Taking Heat For “Guide To Getting Awesome With Women”	UPDATE: Kickstarter has issued a rare response to Casey Malone, the blogger that originally displayed outrage at the campaign and sparked a media firestorm around the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. This morning, material that a proj...
Jun 15, 2012	Ethiopian government outlaws VOIP, 15-year prison sentences possible	Troubling news is coming out of East Africa this week. International media site Al Jazeera has just picked up that on May 24th 2012, Ethiopia ratified new legislation called the 'Ethiopian Telecom Service Infringement Law'. The Legislation ...
Jun 14, 2012	A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. A 30-second call using Skype in Ethiopia can land you a 15-year prison sentence, thanks to new legislation passed by the country’s gove...
Jun 14, 2012	Ethiopian Government Bans Skype, Google Talk And All Other VoIP Services	The Ethiopian government, Al Jazeera reports, has criminalized the use of Skype and other VoIP services like Google Talk. Using VoIP services is now punishable by up to 15 years in prison. This law actually passed last month, but mostly wen...
Jun 11, 2012	Angry Spaniards Crowdfund Money To Try To Bring Former Banking Boss To Court For Bank Collapse	Francisco sent over an interesting story of how a bunch of people in Spain were able to crowdfund a bunch of money in an attempt to bring Rodrigo Rato, the former chair of one of Spain’s largest banks, Bankia, to justice for driving the ban...
Mar 8, 2012	How Al Jazeera is Forging the Future of Social TV	Everything was ready to go, but of course Osama bin Laden had to go and ruin it. The night before the debut episode of The Stream on Al Jazeera English, the al Qaeda leader was killed by U.S. Navy SEALS, forcing the producers of the news pr...
Feb 13, 2012	Mass Protests Against ACTA All Across Europe	Despite freezing temperatures in parts of Europe, it appears that tons and tons of people turned up in person at the various anti-ACTA protests held all across Europe. The amount of people definitely exceeded most expectations. Some of the ...
Apr 25, 2011	How TV & The Web Are Merging: Al Jazeera’s New Show, The Stream	As television continues to adapt to the Web, expect to see new forms of content emerge that are a hybrid of traditional TV and the latest Web technologies. Last week, television news network Al Jazeera launched a new TV show and website. Ca...
Apr 19, 2011	Al Jazeera Takes a Stab at Social News	You remember those social news shows and segments that debuted over the last couple of years, right? Right? I hope you do because I don’t, and neither do any of the other writers here. Al Jazeera is hoping to buck that trend with “The Strea...
	Is space the next military battleground?	The popular US television show Star Trek may have been right when it declared “Space: the final frontier”. This week, officials from 25 countries are meeting in Switzerland in an effort to prevent space-based conflict. The closed-door talks...

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What has the press written about The Stream?

Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning The Stream, among them “Centre for the Analysis of Social Media: Technology, Terrorism & Online Behaviour” (Jul 24, 2015) and “Anonymous Declared War on the Islamic State” (Jun 30, 2014).

Is The Stream still active?

Yes, The Stream is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 5, 2016.