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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
First Drip First Drip (2/25/15): Another bout of #snOMG on its way, Reddit makes a move after Fappening, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:47 AM
In "they still do that?" news: A conservative policy group launched a phone message campaign to spread word about the “dangerous” LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance set to be voted on next Monday by City Council.
Snow's coming. Raid the grocery stores at lunch.
An investigation by CBS reveals the system that provides benefits for military veterans might be even more broken than originally thought. According to whistleblowers, "more than 13,000 informal claims filed between 1996 and 2009 ... ended up stashed in a file cabinet and ignored until 2012."
The social media site Reddit announced stricter guidelines on explicit content, removing any nude photos in which the subject has not given permission to publish. Google's doing the same with its Blogger. The move comes about six months after what's became known as the The Fappening, when hackers obtained nude photos of celebrities and posted them online.
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