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** [[Fridge Brilliance|And now you know why no one's talking about NAMBLA anymore]]; [[Even Evil Has Standards|there are some things even the mass media can't bear to allow]].
** [[Fridge Brilliance|And now you know why no one's talking about NAMBLA anymore]]; [[Even Evil Has Standards|there are some things even the mass media can't bear to allow]].
* This is the reason you do not feed the [[Troll|trolls]], ever.
* This is the reason you do not feed the [[Troll|trolls]], ever.
* In April 2012, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM[[hottip:*:No, not like the [[Fun with Acronyms|sound of eating something yummy]]) began a boycott of Starbucks for its company statement affirming approval of same-sex marriage, the main issue NOM opposes. [http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/nom-s-boycott-is-already-impacting-starbucks?directory=100011 It seems to have backfired]. This was parodied by a ''[[Huffington Post]]'' article [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-wooledge/microsoft-apple-unite-to-_b_1394821.html in which Microsoft and Apple request a similar boycott].
* In April 2012, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM<ref>No, not like the [[Fun with Acronyms|sound of eating something yummy]]</ref>) began a boycott of Starbucks for its company statement affirming approval of same-sex marriage, the main issue NOM opposes. [http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/nom-s-boycott-is-already-impacting-starbucks?directory=100011 It seems to have backfired]. This was parodied by a ''[[Huffington Post]]'' article [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-wooledge/microsoft-apple-unite-to-_b_1394821.html in which Microsoft and Apple request a similar boycott].
* The UK courts have recently ordered major Internet Service Providers to block access to the file sharing search engine The Pirate Bay by May 30th 2012. Soon after the first ISP implemented the block it was reported that The Pirate Bay had actually seen the number of visits increase by several million. Many of these extra visitors are assumed to be people who hadn't heard about the site until it was reported in the news, while some others are visitors who are just trying to circumvent the block.
* The UK courts have recently ordered major Internet Service Providers to block access to the file sharing search engine The Pirate Bay by May 30th 2012. Soon after the first ISP implemented the block it was reported that The Pirate Bay had actually seen the number of visits increase by several million. Many of these extra visitors are assumed to be people who hadn't heard about the site until it was reported in the news, while some others are visitors who are just trying to circumvent the block.


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