Facebook gags verbal dissent group
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'Quit it! You're mean!' Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly innocuous goal of stopping the site from forcing people to use the verb "to be" in their status updates.â¦
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Users of the online hangout Facebook revolted and won as the site agreed Friday to let them turn off a new feature that drew privacy complaints because it lets others easily see changes made to their personal profile pages.
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The Prophet Muhammad cartoon row in Denmark triggers an unusual dialogue on Facebook, writes the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Denizens of one of the Web's most popular student hangouts are in an uproar over changes to the site that they say make their online musings much too public, turning their personal lives into a flashing billboard.
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New York City employee pension  funds are calling on two top Internet companies to do more to  protect free speech in repressive countries, joining a year-old  campaign by human rights groups.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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In a march organized on Facebook, hundreds of thousands protested against the leftist rebel group Monday.
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Stalks you, sir The introduction of new features on social network site Facebook has sparked a backlash from users. Design changes to the site violate user privacy and ought to be scrapped, according to disgruntled users who have launched a series of impromptu protests. One protest site is calling for users to boycott Facebook on 13 September in opposition against a feature called News Feed, which critics argue is a Godsend for stalkers.â¦
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Orkut, a Web site of online communities created and run by Google, contains a small portion of dialogues that advance hatred toward certain groups.
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By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press writer  NEW YORK  Users of the online hangout Facebook revolted and won as the site agreed Friday to let them turn off a new feature that drew privacy complaints because it lets others easily see changes made to their personal profile pages.
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Only 'folksonomy' inspires more fear and loathing It's official: "folksonomy", "blogosphere", "netiquette" and "blook" are among the net-spawned terms which should be cast down into the eternal fires of hell, AFP reports.â¦
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Changes in the way Facebook users are notified of developments in their friends' lives cause an unprecedented backlash on the social networking site -- and force users to reevaluate the nature of social networking communities. By Michael Calore.
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To be, or not to be: Now Facebook users can decide.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group last night aired a program that sharply criticized John Kerry over Vietnam, with the anchor declaring: &quot;Some people are trying to suppress the right to free speech.
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Facebook, a popular Web-based hangout for students, revamped its site last night to let users disable or modify a new feature that had touched off protests from hundreds of thousands of members.
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Social neuroscience offers clues into the neural mechanics behind sending messages that are taken as offensive, embarrassing or downright rude.