censorship
The Islamists Are Going After Fake Newspapers Now
John Cook · 11/02/11 10:40AMAnti-Censorship Crusaders Threaten to Censor Fox News
Adrian Chen · 10/25/11 12:46PMAnonymous appears to be gathering steam for an attack to "destroy" Fox News on November 5th, for its propaganda against the Occupy Wall Street protest. As awful as Fox News is, this is a very dumb idea.
Hotel Fires Employee for Loving His Country
Lauri Apple · 10/16/11 12:22PMCollege Bans Student for Complaining About Branded Debit Cards
Lauri Apple · 10/13/11 09:12AMCommunity college student Marc Bechtol says he was pulled out of class and then banned from campus all because he disparaged his school's stupid branded debit cards on his Facebook. Marc Bechtol deserves a failing grade in Campus Brand Ambassadorship 101, otherwise known as An Introduction to Selling Out.
Google Pulls 'Is My Son Gay' App
Ryan Tate · 10/05/11 03:34PMJust Let Kids Use the Damn Internet At School
Adrian Chen · 09/29/11 09:13AMTheater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening
Lauri Apple · 09/27/11 08:04AMLife Just Got Harder for China's Kelly Clarkson Wannabes
Lauri Apple · 09/19/11 04:34AMChinese censors have suspended Super Girl, their nation's answer to American Idol, because the show's audience-voting feature was too Western and democratic for their Communist tastes. The hard-to-please, no-fun bunch also didn't like the show's potential to offend the Olds, its "vulgar" hosts, the songs, the dances, or the outfits people wore.
Alec Baldwin Pulls Out of Emmys Over Cut Murdoch Joke
Lauri Apple · 09/18/11 06:16PMWoman Forced to Remove Pothead T-Shirt at Pothead's Concert
Lauri Apple · 09/18/11 05:46PMA Nebraska Cannabis Coalition activist who was attending Willie Nelson's concert at the Nebraska State Fair was told by state troopers that she couldn't wear her "Don't Panic, It's Organic" t-shirt because of a vague "fair policy" that doesn't even prohibit pot-themed t-shirts. Or pot-themed musicians, apparently!
Qaddafi's Son Is Bisexual and Other Things the New York Times Doesn't Want You to Know
John Cook · 09/16/11 12:48PMNow that Wikileaks has been forced by circumstance to release the full, unredacted archive of its 250,000-plus classified diplomatic cables, we can see what the New York Times voluntarily redacted, at the request of the State Department, from the cables that it published. Among the things it hid: Muammar Qaddafi has a bisexual son, and a Reuters correspondent is a source for State Department intelligence.
Boring Biden Speech Incites 'Fisticuffs'
Maureen O'Connor · 08/18/11 12:58PMSan Francisco BART To Battle Hackers and Maybe Feds
Ryan Tate · 08/15/11 06:14PMSan Francisco Cops Jam Cell Phones to Prevent Protest
Adrian Chen · 08/12/11 03:37PMFacebook Welcomes Your Baby Penis Pictures
Adrian Chen · 07/28/11 01:05PMGay Couple Denied Entry to Gay Icon's Theme Park
Lauri Apple · 07/27/11 05:26PMWoman's 'Obscene' Truck Nutz Land Her in Court
Lauri Apple · 07/27/11 04:13PMBehave on Google Plus or Your Gmail Gets It
Adrian Chen · 07/20/11 02:56PMInternet Survives Brief Lady Gaga YouTube Outage
Adrian Chen · 07/15/11 12:39PMIf you felt a disturbance in the internet this morning, it was probably because Lady Gaga's YouTube account was briefly shut down due to copyright issues. It had something to do with her posting a clip from the Japanese TV show Smap x Smap? Anyway, she's back, so her "little monsters" can go back into their caves.