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Back in the day (2014), this was mandatory geek reading:

David Auerbach: Chat Wars

No - according to the CDC, 18.3% of women and 1.4% of men experience rape.

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The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey -- source of the CDC numbers, according to your linked PDF -- doesn't include prisons. It also does not count the 4.8% of men who reported being "made to penetrate someone else" as rape victims; a definition of rape that's dependent on the topology of someone's genitals rather than issues of bodily agency is highly problematic.

If we include prison rape, evidence suggests that more men are raped than women, though we're dealing with numbers with large error bars.

(None of this is intended to downplay the seriousness of sexual assault.)

From TFA:

On July 22, 1999, Microsoft entered the chat markets with MSN Messenger Service. Our AOL “interop” was in it.

From wiki:

signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998

Pigeons will soon be the more secure method of communication.

Leave Your Cellphone at Home

The NSA Is Building the Countryâ(TM)s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

No - just worried about too much control by big corporations. Be it Apple, Facebook, Google ... you name it.

You should read 1984.

Reminds me of this: if you don't like or use "Apple|Facebook|Google", you're suspicious and probably a terrorist.

And while you're at it, read this too.

Everyone in the free world should read the closing statements from the members of the punk band Puss Riot http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements- A fascinating insight in how the oppressive system works on individual levels.

One defendant's psych eval identified her values as: "justice, mutual respect, humaneness, equality, and freedom."

Those are values that I hope still define the majority of people in the free world!
And we should NEVER forget to defend them in our societies.