Tag: OBSCENITY

HuffPo reports that a man in St. Louis lost his job at a local school after posting a vulgar response to an online poll, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last Friday asked readers the following question: "What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten?" Spotting a hanging curveball, the employee posted a one-word vulgarity, alluding to a certain female anatomical feature. Web site administrators ...

Last year, The Business Insider -- inspired by an obscenity case in Pensacola, Florida -- checked out the Google Trends data for each of the "seven dirty words." The defense attorney in the case had planned to use Google search data to show that Pensacola's morals were lax in comparison to the rest of the country. The research never saw the light of day, but that didn't stop The Business Insider ...

As Facebook becomes more popular, it's bound to have every move it makes more closely scrutinized. This week, the social networking site made a couple of such provocative moves, one of which will likely piss some people off, and another that is already drawing the ire of some Facebook members. First up -- Facebook has decided to open members' public profiles to search engines such as Google ...