Here we go again. After Robin Thicke's Blurred Linesvideo was pulled from YouTube last month, David Bowie's latest video from his new album "The Next Day" has been pulled from YouTube for violating the site's Terms of Service as pointed out by Billboard. But it's unclear why for a number of reasons. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"People should get over it. Society has told us that it's wrong to show nudity but really there isn't anything wrong with it." More »
Do you have a Bachelors degree, good teamwork skills, and a desire to work in Beijing? If yes, then Chief Pornography Identification Officer might be the job for you! You had better know your porn because you will be expected to research and study pornographic videos and images all day long, while managing and rating your team's porn resources. No easy task. Read More >>
If you only read Playboy magazine "for the articles" the new iOS app is the way to go, with Apple approving of the silicon empire's latest offering thanks to it removing all nudity and only seriving up the features about cars, watches, expensive tennis racquets and this season's must-have merino wool sweaters. Read More >>
Featured comment by flynndean:
"There is a route to do it but I'm not aware of a practical consumer-focused exploitation of it to date.
Microsoft intend for the feature to be util..." More »
It's no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there's a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. Read More >>
Featured comment by L1ma:
"Blocking the internet is very easy, the entire WWW needs only to be accessable through government owned nodes which access non native state websites a..." More »
A gentle reminder to creative types the world around: if you try to put breasts on Facebook—even highly artistic breasts—Facebook will Shut. You. Down. Read More >>
While we're over here yammering on and on about sexting and the best ways to do it, things are moving in a bit of a different direction in South Korea. The country's government is currently rolling out a plan to block swearing and pornography on all its teenagers phones. Read More >>
The PM was previously rumoured to be planning a crackdown on porn in homes where children are present, now he's come out and said it. ISPs will have to block porn by default for households who have kids. Read More >>
Facebook, which recently took down the elbow boobs picture, also took down this picture by men's magazine Zoo. The crass post asks Facebook users if they're a boobs or butt guy, with a "clever" picture. Read More >>
Featured comment by Hamster of Doom:
"And how many women do you personally know in the sex industry?
For the record, I have known a few girls who claimed to want to be lap dancers and g..." More »
Elbows and boobs. Both are great in their own special ways, but they are definitely not the same thing. You and I might know that well enough, but it seems that Facebook has a little more trouble with the distinction. That's why they took down this elbowlicious picture. Read More >>
Twitter has moved far beyond just being a service you tweet about your lunch on, and along with the many useful services it's a platform for, it can also be a tool for terrorism and violence. At least that's how bits of the US government see it, and that's why they're asking the FBI to shut down Hamas-related Twitter accounts. Read More >>
Featured comment by My Pseudonym:
"When does a terrorist become a freedom fighter? I'd say the argument about banning terrorists from twitter is pretty hollow and could arguably drop th..." More »
After seriously flipping out, cutting of Iranian access to Google and basically herding all its citizens into a tiny little government-approved intra-net pen, the Iranian government has softened its Internet ban just a little bit and restored access to Gmail. Read More >>
Featured comment by Taf:
"Tut tut is what I said when I opened the seconded box. Looks like I got the bad apple that fell of the tree, must cave got bruised...
Guess I knew ..." More »
A judge in Brazil has issued an order to have the boss of Google Brazil arrested, in a rather intense and spectacular fight over the legality of certain YouTube videos. Read More >>
Featured comment by mhatti3000:
"Prefiro não colocar meu nome inteiro aqui. Darrell Jones com o avatar igual ao que ele usa aqui. Se você não achar eu invento um meio de falar meu ..." More »
While Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York saying some words nobody believes, his cronies at home are shutting every single one of their citizens out of the internet. Their excuse: 'we may get attacked by zionist viruses!' But of course! Read More >>
Back in January, Google bowed down to corporate monoliths and started censoring "piracy-related searches" containing terms like BitTorrent, torrent, RapidShare, etc, so that they won't appear on Google's autocomplete and instant search results. Looks like The Pirate Bay is the latest to be added to the list. TorrentFreak points out what you can see in the screecap above: "Piratebay" no longer returns quick results related to the embattled service's domain. [TorrentFreak via The Next Web] Read More >>
Featured comment by Barry White:
"Use to use the "searchterm site:piratebay.se" syntax all the time. Saved alot of time and lots of annoying pop up pages and audio enable adverts.
G..." More »
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