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John Oliver, the host of HBO’s show Last Week Tonight, just avoided a major lump of coal. In June 2017, Oliver aired a segment of the show focused on remarking on the decline of the coal industry. In the episode Oliver criticized Murray Energy and Robert Murray—one of America’s largest privately-owned coal mining companies and…
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When NDAs Do Not Impress In the summer of 2012, McKayla Maroney was a household name across the United States whether you knew her from being a member of the “Fierce Five” U.S.A. Women’s Olympic team, watched her vault her way to a silver medal at the London Olympics, or laughed at the “McKayla is…
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In November 2017, Juli Briskman, a 50-year-old marketing executive at Akima LLC, a government contracting firm, was photographed flipping off President Trump’s motorcade from a bike. The photo quickly went viral, making it impossible to retract, and Akima LLC forced Ms. Briskman to resign on the grounds that her gesture in the photo violated Akima’s…
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Bad Blood: Taylor Swift Threatens to Sue Blogger for Defamation Taylor Swift has a list of names and Megan Herning’s is in red, underlined. On September 5, 2017, Herning posted an article on PopFront, a website created in 2013 for political blogs, titled Swiftly to the alt-right: Taylor subtly gets the lower case kkk in…
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If You Like It You Should Put a Copyright on It Picture this: Beyoncé on top of a police car in a flooded street. A newspaper with the headline, “The Truth.” An image featuring Martin Luther King. A young hooded black boy dancing in front of a line of SWAT officers. A graffitied wall with…
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Robert Kardashian Facing Revenge Porn Lawsuit No one expects their former romantic partner to post several nude photographs of them on their social media account, but that is exactly what happened to Blac Chyna. Robert Kardashian (brother of Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe, and half-brother of Kylie and Kendall) recently posted several nude photographs of his…
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Architecture blogger, Kate Wagner from McMansion Hell, recently received an unexpected scare when a demand letter from the real-estate giant, Zillow Inc., appeared in her inbox on June 26, 2017. Zillow demanded that Wagner remove images of homes from her website that she featured with her own critical and humorous commentary. The demand letter was…
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It’s an epidemic in today’s world: Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a new phenomenon to recent generations and one that has quickly turned into a major threat for youth today. Consider the story of David Molak. Throughout his high school career, David was harassed online by classmates. They mocked his appearance and even went as far as…
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