Tag: CONTROVERSIAL

Where free speech once saw a debate over "clear and present danger," the Internet has given us a new ethical conundrum between what constitutes free speech and what's just plain dangerous. We at Switched put our heads together to come up with the most controversial -- not hateful, not absurd, not out-of-left-field, but conversation-starting -- Web sites around. Our discovery? There are a lot ...

A video game set at Guantanamo Bay, and made with the help of a former Gitmo detainee, has been pulled by developer T-Enterprise, read a statement posted to its Web site today. The game, 'Rendition Guantanamo,' was set to come out later this Fall, but, due to extreme reactions and controversy, the company has decided to not release the game at all. As profiled in a recent CBS News article, ...

In the ever-expanding iPhone app store, there are some helpful, fun and downright awesome sources of information and entertainment. That said, every so often an app shows up that makes us wonder what the hell the people at Apple were thinking (if they were, in fact, thinking when they approved it). We are speaking, of course, about the now infamous 'Baby Shaker' app that went on sale Monday, ...