internet incidents

Full story at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/05/20/google-maps-white-house-racial-slur-president-obama/27640023/ Note: I literally just tried it Google Maps on my Moto X here in NE Florida, and... yeah it worked. I know I'm sure my address search history has gotten me on...

Sky News did a Special Report on McCann Trolls. Police gathered a dossier of hateful tweets, Facebook posts and comments attacking the McCann family. Sky news reported on the dossier outing a twitter troll known as @sweepyface. The reporter outed @sweepyface as 63 year old Brenda Leyland from...

BBC News: Google blunder over D-Day doodle When I saw the headline, I assumed they'd cocked up by depicting something not from D-Day (e.g. the flag-rasing on Iwo Jima), rather than doing nothing at all! :eek:

It would appear that Ann Coulter doesn't like the recent hashtag campaign to raise awareness about the 300 abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Or she is just an unrelenting attention whore. Maybe even both. The important thing is that she tried to mock the campaign and the internet...

Popular Science magazine will no longer be allowing comments on it's online articles. No doubt the conspiracy nuts, woo peddlers and cranks will be spinning this as either a 'victory' for their nonsense or claiming their 'freedom of speech' is being denied.

An interesting article which as me in two minds, as a victim of 'old skool' bullying it's nice to see someone going after them, but I'm not sure this is the right way. http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/newshome/15191781/charlotte-dawson-fights-back-against-twitter-trolls/ However, the...

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Earlier this week the file locker site Mega upload released a promotional music video featuring stars such as Will.i.am and others showing support for the site which the RIAA claims is a haven for scum and villany. Shortly afterwards the video was pulled from Youtube at the request of Universal...

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Thai-Court-Jails-American-For-Royal-Insult-Online-135238478.html Let me go on record as saying that King Bhumiphol Adulyadej is a big meanie, he smells bad, and he has a face like a monkey's but. And no, I have no intention of visiting that country...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394071,00.asp#fbid=GyycdNN5pgL This might be interesting. Do you think "they" really can?

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2216603,00.html Not everyone is qualified to raise children.

Wordpress.com, which hosts over a million blogs on all kinds of subjects, has now been blocked throughout Turkey. This is because, it seems, one Wordpress blogger rashly dared to question Islamic Creationism, with the result that a Creationist took him to court and, incredibly, got the backing...

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