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Barnes & Noble Censors Cover Featuring Androgynous Male Model
Remy Stern · 05/16/11 10:14AMAnonymous Gossiping Twitter User Wreaks Havoc on British Celebrities
Adrian Chen · 05/09/11 11:00AMHow Facebook Lets Whining Trolls Censor Everyone
Adrian Chen · 04/28/11 05:16PMFacebook Will Let the Chinese Government Spy On Your Profile
Adrian Chen · 04/28/11 12:09PMFacebook Is Worried About 'Too Much Free Speech'
Ryan Tate · 04/20/11 03:16PMFacebook Apologizes For Censoring Gay Kiss Picture
Adrian Chen · 04/19/11 11:14AMThe Famous Vagina Painting That Facebook Doesn't Want You to See
Adrian Chen · 04/13/11 02:16PMGustave Courbet's 1886 oil painting of a naked woman's lower half, The Origin of the World, hangs in Paris' Musee d'Orsay. But it is not welcome on the hallowed walls of Facebook. Facebook has abruptly canceled at least three accounts after users posted the painting, and art connoisseurs are fuming.
China Tries to Ban Time Travel
Brian Moylan · 04/12/11 04:49PMAnti-Porn Politician Busted Watching Porn in Parliament
Max Read · 04/11/11 06:05PMEgyptian Blogger Facing Three Years In Prison for Criticizing New 'Democratic' Regime
John Cook · 04/11/11 02:40PMMaureen Dowd Mad That Bob Dylan Didn't Overthrow Chinese Government
Max Read · 04/10/11 01:01PMJames Franco's Twitter Shut Down by The Man
Adrian Chen · 04/02/11 03:13PMHow American-Made Tech Helped Middle Eastern Governments Censor the Internet
Remy Stern · 04/02/11 10:46AMBritish Man Found Guilty of Publishing 'Terrorist Information'
John Cook · 03/09/11 03:30PMTerence Brown is a British man who sells The Anarchist's Cookbook—not the original one, but an updated version with information from all the latest terror movements—for $35 on CD-ROM. He was just convicted of violating England's Terrorism Act, and the judge warned him that he will almost certainly go to prison.
Vandal Clothes Renaissance Painting of Venus
Maureen O'Connor · 02/25/11 01:42PMFor the first time in the history of red spray paint in the vicinity of a poster girl's breasts, a vandal made a billboard less sexual. To advertise an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the billboard in Long Lake, MN featured a 16th-century Titian painting of Venus. The vandal painted a red tube top over Venus' breasts and commented, "Brrr!"
Syria Unbans Facebook, YouTube
Max Read · 02/08/11 11:28PMThe Syrian government apparently unbanned Facebook and YouTube on Tuesday, five years after those and other social networking sites were blocked nationwide. (Not that the ban had stopped anyone—both sites "are popular across the country" and accessed through anonymous proxy servers. You can't stop viral videos, guys!) So far, Syrian attempts at generating protests on the same scale as those in Egypt and Tunisia have failed, and it'll be interesting to see if a more easily-accessible internet will facilitate anti-government activity, or just get everyone hooked on Farmville. [Guardian]