Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $79,800
98%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 98%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: webconferencing

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • A Must For Millions, Zoom Has A Dark Side — And An FBI Warning

    04/03/2020 2:53:52 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 58 replies
    NPR ^ | April 3, 2020 | Shannon Bond
    Dennis Johnson fell victim last week to a new form of harassment known as "Zoombombing," in which intruders hijack video calls and post hate speech and offensive images such as pornography. It's a phenomenon so alarming that the FBI has issued a warning about using Zoom. Like many people these days, Johnson is doing a lot of things over the Internet that he would normally do in person. Last week, he defended his doctoral dissertation in a Zoom videoconference. He had a big audience — he estimated it was about 40 people, including "my closest friends, family and my classmates...
  • Why Congress should use web conferencing

    04/13/2010 4:34:42 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 15 replies · 253+ views
    Consider the benefits: 1) Congress does not listen to us, and I suspect at least part of that is due to being up in DC up in their ivory towers looking down their noses at us. So if members of congress were at home in their districts and US senators at 'home' in their state capitals, they would be a lot closer to their constituents and it should give we the people much greater power. It also removes all of them from the daily cesspool that is the DC culture. 2) It's a security issue. We all remember 9/11. What...