Church leader pushing petition to ban certain books at Austin Memorial LibraryA Shepherd [TX] minister is leading a petition to have certain books removed from the shelves of the teen section at Austin Memorial Library ( Read more... )

Unrealistic Female Anatomy Tumblr “Escher Girls” Currently Facing Harrassment From DMCA-Abusing Comic Artist
Someone's about to learn about the Streisand Effect.
If you’re a comics loving feminist on the Internet, then you probably have a passing familiarity with Escher Girls and the sometimes snarky, oftentimes insightful work they do. If you’re a ( Read more... )

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A Fox TV affiliate in Oklahoma is facing criticism after cutting a reference to evolution in the debut episode "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."

Toward the end of the the episode, which aired Sunday night, host Neil deGrasse Tyson made brief mention of evolution. But viewers of the affiliate, KOKH, were treated instead to a news promo.

In a tweet, ( Read more... )

There is Evil, and Then There is Pure Evil.

Candy Crush Saga makers to sue game they copied‘I hope you’re happy taking the food out of my family’s mouth’, says creator of CandySwipe - as developer King attempts to cancel his trademark ( Read more... )

King ARE Trying To Candy-Crush The Banner Saga

Yesterday the internet was alive with the news about King, owners of Candy Crush Saga, their trademarking of the word “Candy”, and their ensuing threats to other developers who are using the word in their game titles. The response from King was to flap their eyelashes and protest innocence - they were ( Read more... )

The experience of a Saskatchewan teen who wore a shirt with the message "Got Land? Thank an Indian" to her school and found herself in some hot water, is sparking animated discussions on social media about race and Aboriginal relations in Canada.

The original news item about Tenelle Starr on CBC's website garnered close to 100,000 views and ( Read more... )

Florida may have accidentally banned access to the Internet
By Steve Benen - Tue Jul 9, 2013 11:36 AM EDT

Back in March, an ugly scandal unfolded in Florida, where Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll (R) was forced to abruptly resign from office, after her company was accused of helping oversee a fraudulent veterans' charity and using gambling at Internet ( Read more... )

A high school student in Wichita, Kansas, was suspended for the rest of the school year after tweeting a mild criticism of the school sports programs ( Read more... )

The 20-Year-Old Crime That's Blowing Up on Chinese Social Media

On May 4, the popular Chinese actress Yao Chen posted the following message to her 45 million followers on the microblogging site Sina Weibo: “Nineteen years ago, the young Zhu Ling was poisoned. Nineteen years later, this name has again been poisoned.”

Yao Chen is referring to a ( Read more... )