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China Blocks Access to YouTube After Tibet Coverage
Posted: March 16th, 2008, 12:30am EDT by Associated Press
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Internet access to YouTube is blocked in China on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular video website. The blocking adds to the communist government's efforts to control what the public sees and hears about protests that erupted Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule.
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Court Backs Craigslist in Discrimination Brouhaha
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 10:30pm EDT by Threat Level
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A federal appeals court dismisses a discrimination suit against craigslist, ruling the online classified ad site is immune from accusations that it violates the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968.
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Astronauts Take a Walk Outside Space Station
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 10:00pm EDT by Associated Press
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Endeavour astronauts venture outside the international space station on Saturday to put Dextre, the giant robot, together.
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Inside the Playboy Party With Moby and Justice
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 2:30pm EDT by Underwire
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At Playboy's Rock the Rabbit party at South by Southwest, Moby, French electronica duo Justice, Brooklyn rockers MGMT and the United Kingdom’s The Heavy are brought in to entertain the revelers. Angela Watercutter reports on the musical vibe at the Playboy party.
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Endeavour Astronauts Get Ready to Take a Spacewalk
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 2:00pm EDT by Associated Press
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Power is now flowing to Dextre, the international space station's giant new robot. Astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle-station complex are preparing for a spacewalk to assemble the robot.
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Guerrilla Filmmaking Group Fights Anti-Obama Virus
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 1:30pm EDT by Threat Level
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Left-leaning Brave New Films launches a viral video campaign that seeks to diminish Fox News' influence on the rest of the political news media. A four-minute video airs footage from Fox News reports that compares Senator Barack Obama to Chairman Mao, and radio commentary that compares him to Hitler.
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Will Revived RIAA Racketeering Suit Survive?
Posted: March 15th, 2008, 1:15pm EDT by Threat Level
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A lawsuit against the RIAA is filed in Oregon U.S. District Court on behalf of a woman wrongly accused of pilfering music via the Kazaa file-sharing network. The case, revived a month after a federal judge dismissed it, seeks to represent thousands of people the woman's attorneys claim have been wrongly targeted by the record labels' lobbying organization.