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RIP Prince, A Legendary Musician With A Complicated Internet History (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Reflecting on the popular musician's uneasy relationship with the Internet and social media upon the 57-year-old surprising death. In 2010, Prince "famously shuttered his LotusFlow3r.com website," proclaiming that "The Internet is completely over... All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you." In 2014, The Guardian ran a story titled "Prince quits the Internet," after the singer deleted his social media accounts. He filed a lawsuit against his fans, which was later dropped, for sharing bootlegged copies of his music online. He even banned fans from taking smartphone photos at his concerts in 2013. Prince did seem to open up to the Internet to some degree in the past couple years. Prince's HTNRUN album was posted on Jay Z's Tidal music site last year. In Silicon Valley, Prince is being remembered as a social innovator and a passionate advocate for Black youth," inspiring YesWeCode, Van Jones' initiative to teach 100,000 low-income kids to write code, and hackathons across the country to expose kids in underserved communities to computer science. Bob Brown from Networkworld writes, "News of Prince's death Thursday briefly crashed the TMZ news site. From there, fans flocked to the Internet and social media to mourn this music star who did his darnedest to stay off the grid." RIP Prince.
Dear Slashdot,
A story about the death of Prince is not remotely on topic for what slashdot used to be about. No, it doesn't matter that he was musician number 105 to dislike the Internet. The word Internet does NOT make a topic relevant for slashdot in 2016. Maybe in 1995 it was news if something happened with regard to the Internet, but not today.
Could you please try to post stories about science or technology again. And real stories, not something at such a low level that tabloid magazines might post the same story.
Thanks in advance!
He was nothing but a talentless hack with a major identity crisis.
Support your local school shooter, give them your firearms.
LOL. You are kidding right? Yeah right, Prince didn't use drugs. WTF.
LEGENDARY? Vivaldi was legendary. Bach, Mozart were legendary. In 100 years no one will remember "Prince", but everyone will still remember the legends. Over-hyped and over-rated does not mean legendary.
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