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Many bloggers have expressed concern that Paul's massive online vote totals could only be accomplished through the use of bots that automatically send hundreds of votes. Paul supporters say his success is just the results of the wild, wild web operating at its finest, giving voice to a movement that would otherwise find no traction in traditional media.
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AutoAdmit, a law-students' chat site that sparked a maelstrom because of its degrading comments about students, is now at the center of a legal battle. Two women at Yale Law School have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site's former chief educational director -- who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School this year -- and several others who posted messages to the site under pseudonyms.
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Indie filmmakers seeking success on YouTube are no longer content to bask in the validation of a few thousand viewers. Instead, these auteur-entrepreneurs are using software, crowd sourcing and "virtual studio" sites to broaden exposure for their work and make a few bucks while they're at it.
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When Krista-Lee Malone, a student at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, did a study of the impact of voice chat on online worlds, women all told her they were treated differently once other players could hear their voices. Yet in a study of WoW, those who used text-only chat experienced "drops in trust and happiness" amongst their fellow players; those who used voice chat did not.
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Openness is ingrained in Swedish society. Today Swedes have unfettered access to almost all records that the state keeps on the population. But until the Internet arrived, citizens had to visit the local tax office to ask about others' finances. Things came to a head in Nov when a Swedish website, Ratsit.se, started publishing financial details, free of charge, from the national tax authority.
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Miss America Lauren Nelson now is teaming with a security software company to help educate parents and children about dangers on the Internet. Nelson made Internet safety her platform issue, prompted in part by an experience she and two of her friends had with a stranger they encountered on the Internet when they were about 13.
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David Cooke, director of the BBFC, said: "Manhunt 2 is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone.
"There is sustained and cumulative casual sadism in the way in which these killings are committed, and encouraged, in the game."
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Casey Serin, arguably the world's most-hated blogger, rocketed to Internet stardom after disclosing his pending foreclosures, marital strife and unwillingness to find a job. But the 24-year-old's online fame was hardly flattering: it arose from legions of readers who call themselves "haterz" and frequent his iamfacingforeclosure.com blog to ridicule his financial missteps and urge Serin to pay back up to $420,000 he is said to owe creditors.
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The same privacy issues [on MySpace and Facebook] affect any student, but part of the return on an athlete's scholarship money is an unspoken commitment to represent the university as a public ambassador.
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An online protest involving 20 tons of peanuts delivered to CBS Entertainment in New York and California has succeeded in bringing back the television show Jericho, which the network canceled last month.
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Many bloggers have expressed concern that Paul's massive online vote totals could only be accomplished through the use of bots that automatically send hundreds of votes. Paul supporters say his success is just the results of the wild, wild web operating at its finest, giving voice to a movement that would otherwise find no traction in traditional media.
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