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On a Friday in February, a visitor to the website 4chan posted child porn photos to the “international” channel. 4chan may be notorious for the offensive images that get posted there, but it turns out there are limits even on that free-wheeling board. According to a police affidavit, 4chan flagged the post, recorded the Internet…
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request 4:02 PM PDT 9/24/2016 by Ryan Parker , Jonathan Handel IMDb “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked, I want to thank Gov. Brown and the bill’s author,…
It’s Wonder Woman’s 75th anniversary, and the Amazon superhero’s starring in a new title that goes back and forth between her past and present. Part of that past, says series writer Greg Rucka, is the fact that Diana has to have had romantic relationships with women. The current Wonder Woman title aims to represent and…
SundayReview | Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living By RUTH BADER GINSBURGOCT. 1, 2016 close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her Supreme Court nomination hearings in 1993. Credit Stephen Crowley “Did you always want to be a judge” or, more exorbitantly, “a Supreme Court justice?”…
Don’t let the wide Harlem avenues and neon-lit side streets fool you. Marvel’s Luke Cage is a Western. Its ex-con hero washes dishes and tends bar at a nightspot after dark and mops floors at a barbershop during the day. But in his heart, he’s a gunfighter who swears he’s left that life behind. He…
Highlights from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Manheim, Pa., on Oct. 1. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) MANHEIM, Pa. — Donald Trump’s campaign announced Saturday evening that the candidate would soon deliver a nine-sentence critique of comments Hillary Clinton made months ago about many of the millennials supporting her primary rival, Bernie Sanders. It was…
August 26, 2015, was, by all accounts, a stressful day at Blue Apron’s facility in Richmond, California. As the sun rose over what would be an unusually warm Wednesday, a 21-year-old employee made a phone call to a supervisor at the $2 billion food startup’s Bay Area fulfillment center, where tens of thousands of meal kits…
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by…
Last Friday, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill called the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, better known as JASTA. The bill, which enjoyed broad bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, would, among other things, have allowed plaintiffs to sue countries known to have sponsored terrorist acts for compensatory damages. Many of the bill’s…
An Alternative Plan Michael Kimmelman, New York Times architecture critic Train stations are more than just a bunch of platforms for getting places. They’re portals. New York used to have two of the world’s most ennobling entrances, announcing the city in all its ambition and glory, Grand Central Terminal and the…