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Georgia school district accused of blocking gay sites

Jennifer Vanasco — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:30:20 +0000

The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia is threatening to take legal action against Gwinnett County Public Schools for blocking students’ access to LGBT websites.

The ACLU claims the(...)

NJ student’s suicide illustrates Internet dangers

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:00:00 +0000

(Piscataway) The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet’s alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and(...)

Gay student secretly taped having sex kills himself

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:06:57 +0000

(Ridgewood, NJ) A New Jersey college student committed suicide the day after authorities say two fellow students surreptitiously recorded him having sex in his dorm room and broadcast it over(...)

China defends net filtering software amid outcry

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:44:30 +0000

Although the government says the software is aimed at blocking violence and pornography, users who have tried it say it prevents access to a wide range of topics, from discussions of homosexuality to images of comic book characters such as Garfield the cat.

Corvino: Growing older, gratefully

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:01:13 +0000

This column hits the internet around my fortieth birthday. Forgive a middle-aged columnist for indulging in some reminiscing.

Little reminders of my age keep creeping up, like the fact that(...)

Fight against syphilis, AIDS goes online

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:59:21 +0000

(Cincinnati, Ohio) As life moves to the Internet, a growing number of public health agencies are signing on to social networking sites – not to find friends but to fight syphilis, AIDS and other(...)

Tennessee schools block LGBT info sites, not ‘ex-gay’ sites

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:39:43 +0000

(Nashville, Tennessee) As many as 107 Tennessee public school districts could be illegally preventing students from accessing online information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender(...)

Microsoft Apologizes for Gay Bashing

chagmionantoine — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:17:36 +0000

A lesbian gamer speaks out about gay bashing on XBOX. Now software companies are rushing to calm the backlash. Chagmion Antoine

Canada anti-hate law should not extend to Internet jokes, critics say

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:26:48 +0000

(Oakville, Ontario) Parts of Canada’s human-rights legislation are a punitive and gross infringement on free expression that have no place in a democratic country that prides itself on freedom,(...)