If you hate those annoying Captcha words you need to figure out before posting on many websites including Dvice, then a company called Are You A Human feels your pain. Their system called PlayThru dumps the unreadable words, asking you instead to play a simple little visual game that requires some human knowledge.

SOURCE: Replace those frustrating Captchas with a simple visual game | DVICE.

The activists weren’t victims of censorship, but rather an anti-spam computer algorithm that was impersonally doing what it was designed to do.

via Facebook’s spam program catches activists – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – msnbc.com.

This highlights the importance of building your own space, and not relying on mega companies to look after your interests. -JA