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Pakistan lifts YouTube ban after 3 long months
The Pakistani government plans to unblock access to YouTube within the next 24 hours, according to information detailed on federal interior minister Rehman Malik's Twitter feed. The decision comes...
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Teen arrested after threatening violent rampage on Facebook
An Indiana teen has been arrested and charged with a felony after allegedly making threats to "go on a rampage" on Facebook. Eric Rizley, 19, told police he never really intended to carry out attacks...
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"Make Me Asian" app is racist, doesn't work
It begs the question: Does Mickey Rooney have an Android phone? Some Asian-Americans are outraged by an app called "Make Me Asian," which morphs anyone's photos by narrowing their eyes, yellowing...
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The top 10 most influential people on Facebook in 2012
Back in March 2012, prominent blogger and former CNN bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon stated that she believed Facebook yielded as much power as a nation."Sovereignty and power are shifting," she told...
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Dying "Star Trek" fan gets private "Into Darkness" screening
A terminally ill Star Trek fan had his wish to see Star Trek Into Darkness come true, thanks to director J.J. Abrams himself—and Reddit. On Christmas Day, redditor ideeeyut posted a thread to the...
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Teen's soccer video wins his idol's attention and a trip to Spain
A young Norwegian soccer player was overjoyed when his hero retweeted a video of him showing off his skills, but that wasn't all that awaited Daniel Nilsen in his Twitter interactions with Cristiano...
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Twitter's best (and weirdest) New Year's resolutions
"This year, I resolve to make some changes." How many times have you heard this as New Year's Eve approaches? New Year's resolutions have become just as big a staple of the holiday as "Auld Lang Syne"...
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Anonymous fights to free U.K. girl kidnapped in Egypt
This year, Anonymous's calls to action have incuded #OpWBC, in which the group intimidated the Westboro Baptist Church into abandoning rumored plans to protest the funerals of Sandy Hook shooting...
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Mich. bans employers from demanding social media passwords
Michigan becomes the latest state to pass a new law that prohibits employers and educational institutions from demanding that workers or students give up their social media passwords. On Friday,...
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Vietnam maintains 25 years' prison time for bloggers
In a recent ruling, Vietnam has refused leniency to two bloggers who disobeyed the state by allegedly posting anti-government messages online. On Friday, courts denied two appeals of dissident...
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Reddit’s most prolific commenter sounds off: “It’s a dictatorship”
What’s the best thing about Reddit? The community. What’s the worst? The community. That’s according to andrewsmith1986, a power user who’s been upvoted to a special place in Reddit’s strata, where...
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2012: The year soccer racism took over Twitter
Tweeting insults at athletes is the new screaming at the TV. When a mistake gives the opponents an advantage, when a player misses a chance to win the game at the buzzer, when a terrible foul changes...
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Cyberwar: How scared should we really be?
Cyberwar, cyberespionage, cyberterrorism, cyberattacks. These words elicit an almost unseemly emotional response from everyone. The public, the government, the military, and academics are all...
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Hugh Hefner gets married again, and tweets about it
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is off the market, again. The 86-year-old married former Playmate Crystal Harris, 26, on New Year's Eve in a small ceremony captured on Twitter. Harris, who officially...
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Fantasia Barrino slammed for possibly anti-gay Instagram post
After being slammed for making anti-gay comments, former American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino is now claiming everyone misunderstood her. Barrino posted this rambling, semi-coherent message to her...
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Brazilian teen sells her virginity to pay mom's medical bills
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A woman in Brazil has taken to YouTube to announce that she's put her virginity up for auction. This time, however, the woman is 18 years old, and she's doing...
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Pakistan's Facebook killer needs $581 to keep operating
The "halal" social network that aimed to overtake Facebook as the go-to destination for Pakistani Muslims can't even pay its bills. Representatives of MillatFacebook.com asked its supporters via email...
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Burglars ransack redditor's house, get caught on video
This past December Reddit user MakingThings lived through a real-life version of the Jodie Foster thriller Panic Room, about a mother who watches her home get ransacked by burglars from surveillance...
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Vlogbrother John Green explains why Congress sucks
After staying up late on New Year’s Eve to sort of diffuse its own financial time bomb, Congress has faced no shortage of criticism for its divisiveness, procrastination and, well, all around...
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Father disciplines son with video game assassins
Hardcore gamers had better keep a close eye on their disapproving parents—or they could be killed. Their in-game characters, that is."Xiao Feng" (Chinese for "Little Feng") let his addiction to video...
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