Testing the limits of Chinese Internet censorship
Just how censored is the Internet in China, anyway? The title of a new study out of Harvard University yields a possibly surprising answer: “…Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but...
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How 1 question triggered a "Supernatural" fandom meltdown
"BEING GAY IS NOT OKAY. THANK YOU JENSEN ACKLES FOR BANNING GAY QUESTIONS AT CONVENTIONS," a Supernatural fan wrote on Tumblr in the middle of a fandom-wide meltdown that took place this weekend over...
View ArticleWhy was the U.N. following a German porn star on Twitter?
The United Nations is pretty picky about who it follows on Twitter. Although the global organization has nearly 1.5 million followers, it only follows 536. Among them are the World Health...
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Meet Regina Reynolds, the girl who took her calculator to prom
Think your prom date was cool? If he or she was a human, think again. One Tumblr teenager put the TI in inventive when she took her calculator to prom."No one asked me to prom, so I took my...
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Wikipedia tags Jason Collins with homophobic slur
Over the weekend, an anonymous editor defaced a Wikipedia page on the Washington Wizards 2012-2013 season by referring to Jason Collins as a "faggot." Collins recently made headlines for becoming the...
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A guide to fandom's complicated relationship with Orson Scott Card
During the next six months, you're going to be hearing the name Orson Scott Card a lot. Card is the author of Ender's Game, one of the greatest works of science fiction and children's literature ever...
View ArticleThere's only one place to hide a smartphone in prison—and it ain't pretty
"It's almost a big opportunity to do a lot of bragging and show off how tough they think they are." That's Harris County, Texas prosecutor Bill Hawkins talking about the extreme measures some inmates...
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Redditors perform Photoshop magic for 87-year-old WWII vet
Derek, an 87-year-old grandfather who served in Britain’s Royal Navy during World War II, has no doubt seen it all. War. Foreign territory. An ever-expanding family. Recently, he saw something brand...
View ArticleAnonymous wants to know how this Ohio man really died
If you ask officials in Sandusky County, Ohio, how Jacob Limberios died, they'll claim that it was a suicide. Anonymous doesn't think so. The hacktivist collective has launched a new op,...
View ArticleTwitter goes bananas as Sir Alex Ferguson announces retirement from soccer
One of the most successful managers in soccer history, Sir Alex Ferguson, announced Wednesday that he is to retire this summer. Predictably, Twitter went bananas. The Manchester United boss, 71, has...
View ArticleUCLA applicant Twitter-spams his way to an acceptance letter
A high school student impatient to hear whether he'd been accepted to University of California, Los Angeles, started bugging the school on Twitter. Bernie Zak, 18, found out last month he was on the...
View Article17-year-old girl saves the world from Twitter TV spoilers
The only thing worse than TV spoilers on Twitter is people complaining about TV spoilers on Twitter. Thank the old gods and the new that a bright young developer has come up with a way to keep Game of...
View ArticleYou can buy this guy's personal data for $2
If you're reading this right now, you're likely helping someone else make money. In the digital age, everything you do online is creating data—and that data has become a powerful commodity. Companies...
View ArticlePorn site will pay to remove its name from man's face
When we last checked in with Hostgator Dotcom, he was looking to raise $4,000 to permanently remove several URLs for porn sites and online casinos he had tattooed on his face. Now, thanks to the...
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GoneWild: The everyday lives of Reddit's amateur porn stars
Warning: This story contains sexually explicit material and is NSFW. Natural_Red is married. Young brunette Samantha would stop if she got a boyfriend. Nina1987, a fan favorite, is a medical student....
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A different view of Nina1987, Reddit's sexiest photo vixen
Warning: This story contains sexually explicit material and is NSFW. I instantly recognized Nina1987 on the street a half hour before our scheduled interview, even though she had her clothes on. She...
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Manchester United spoils its new manager's identity on Facebook
Manchester United spoiled the identity of its new manager on Facebook before publicly confirming his appointment. Reports Thursday suggested the team was in discussions with Everton to acquire the...
View ArticleFor $300, Snapchat sexts can be yours forever
We all knew it was too good to be true. Snapchat, the photo-texting app designed to delete your pictures soon after they’re received, is supposed to be a completely safe way to send naughty pics to...
View Article"Internet hate machine" Anonymous buys socks for the homeless
Remember the cop who bought the homeless guy a pair of boots? This is like that, but cheaper—and you don’t have to wash the feet of the poor if you’re not quite up to going full Jesus on the least of...
View ArticleYouTube pulls ad for disabled rights charity
YouTube has deemed a video starring a prominent disability rights activist too steamy for the video-sharing site, dumping it amidst dubious claims it violates the company's terms of service. The video...
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