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President-Elect Trump Decries Mean-Spirited SNL, Personally Likes Alec Baldwin
US President-elect Donald Trump criticizes the long-running late night television comedy revue Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin Tweet Over Continuing ‘SNL’ Skits from ABC News His tweet storms are now legendary – and no target has drawn more ire of late than Saturday Night Live, particularly with its portrayal of US President-elect Donald Trump in the […]
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News Headlines March 20, 2014: Erdogan Vows to Eradicate Twitter, German Chancellor Says G8 No Longer Exists, Swedish Town to Move City Center to Avoid Mine Collapse
Turkish Prime Minister Vows to Eradicate Twitter People’s Republic of China Condemns North Korea Human Rights Reports, Vows to Continue Deporting Refugees Back to DPRK Putin Asks Russian Billionaires to Pay Taxes British MP Nigel Evans Faces Rape Charges Russia Responds to US President Barack Obama’s Sanctioning of Russian Politicians Comcast Releases Report Detailing Government […]
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Turkish PM Erdogan Declares Twitter a ‘Troublemaker’
Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared popular internet microblogging service Twitter a troublemaker in his latest round of anti-freedom salvos launched since the beginning of the riots in Istanbul. He declared the information being spread on the service lies and labeled Twitter an enemy of modern governments: There is a trouble called Twitter. […]
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Saudi Arabia’s Hayaa are Mocked on Twitter After the Mysterious Closure of a Dinosaur Exhibit in Dammam
Saudi Arabia’s powerful and omniprevalent Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice recently closed an educational exhibit featuring dinosaurs at a shopping mall in the oil capital of Dammam, prompting a backlash on Twitter that both mocked the ‘Hayaa’ as well as Saudi clerics. Some have pointed to the ‘dinosaurs […]
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Chinese Weibo Censor Goes on Public Rant, Excoriates Users and PRC Government
Weibo user @Geniune_Yu_Yang went on a public rant after pressures to satisfy Weibo users and maintain the Communist Party line with regard to censorship became too much for him to bear. Though web censorship is prevalent in China, Weibo practices self-censorship, hiring people to go through posts and messages to clear out anything forbidden by current […]
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Twitter and Hate Speech? French Jewish Group Wants Twitter to Reveal Names of Anti-Jewish Tweeters
At the intersection of private life and public space exist online forums like Facebook and Twitter, which are neither entirely private nor entirely public (depending on a user’s site preferences) yet still invoke expectations of privacy and respect for others that are foundational to many of the social norms in democratic societies. What does a […]
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Restaurant GM kicks out girl for tweeting that the bartender was a ‘twerp.’
GTFO. No, seriously, this is the most bizarre thing I have read in a while. Restaurant patron kicked out after tweeting insult about bartender? How in the world did the GM of the restaurant find out about this in time? It just shows the increasingly interconnected world we live in and how we all need […]
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