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How 'Animal Farm' Gave Hope to Stalin's Refugees (theatlantic.com)

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VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC (pcworld.com)

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New research suggests that giving voters an ego boost may make them more accepting of information that challenges their pre-existing views. (npr.org)

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Bad Pun Ski Instructor (i.qkme.me)

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Hulu's move to an "authentication system" may be a violation of the conditions of the NBC/Comcast merger. (freepress.net)

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Hulu Moving Toward User Authentication: Users to require cable of satellite TV account numbers to watch content (webpronews.com)

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"The free NHL PrePlay app, which just got approved, allows TV viewers to play along with a game by making live predictions on the action." (gigaom.com)

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Request for Jon Stewart to host a presidential debate by e2robbyin politics

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Request for Jon Stewart to host a presidential debate by e2robbyin politics

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White House issues a veto threat for CISPA. (privacysos.org)

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Congress is not going to understand how awful CISPA is unless enough of us are contacting them and creating a stink. Here's a clever way to make that happen! (congresstmi.org)

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CISPA Pushed Forward By For-Profit Spying Lobby: "[T]wo of the top firms spending a lot of money to pass CISPA are major National Security Agency (NSA) contractors." (republicreport.org)

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Helpful infographic explaining the dangers of CISPA (luminconsulting.com)

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This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. by GraybackPHin technology

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Netflix revealed that it has created its own political action committee called FLIXPAC, designed to support anti-piracy measures in Washington and the candidates that favor them. (rawstory.com)

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The Boys (and Girls) of Winter: Ice Hockey Is Thriving Among Adults in Chicago (nytimes.com)

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MPAA chairman says SOPA can live again: "When asked if negotiations on a SOPA revival were taking place, Dodd answered that he was 'confident that's the case.'" (thehill.com)

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Scumbag Mouth (i.qkme.me)

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Fewer traffic deaths occurred following California's ban on hand-held cell use (theverge.com)

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Infinite Copyright Is Killing Culture (in graph form) (slate.com)

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Fewer than 35 percent of conservatives say they have a "great deal" of trust in the scientific community now, compared to nearly half in 1974. (news.yahoo.com)

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First, the FCC passes some net neutrality rules, then they block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger and are now investigating the Verizon/Comcast spectrum deal. So naturally, they must be destroyed. (theverge.com)

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Patrick Carney, drummer of The Black Keys, is no fan of Napster's Sean Parker: "He's an asshole...That guy has $2 billion that he made from figuring out ways to steal royalties from artists, and that's the bottom line." (news.cnet.com)

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TSA Freaks Out, Gets Longtime Critic Kicked Off Of Oversight Hearing (techdirt.com)

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FCC Asked to Investigate Data Caps:"It is simply inexcusable that the FCC has not even seen fit to ask wireless and landline carriers to explain why those caps are necessary, how they are set and how consumers are affected by them." (broadcastingcable.com)

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