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equalitopia: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child @Homophobes, a Twitter account that retweets homophobes to expose their ignorance, published a collection of 100 horrifying tweets where people said that they would murder their child if he or she was gay. These tweets were all posted within 24 hours. From the Storify post: On March 12, 2012, the hashtag #ToMyUnbornChild became a trending topic. People used this hashtag to “tweet to” their future child. Here are 100 real tweets from real people — all within 24 hours — saying they would murder their child if he or she was gay. View the Tweets #ToMyUnbornChild if you fall in love with someone of the same sex, I will not only still love you but I will also love your significant other
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I was writing with my heart, not my keyboard. I was writing what I felt should be written.

On today’s Fresh Air, Internet activist Wael Ghonim talks about how his Facebook page helped start Egypt’s revolution. (via nprfreshair)

Please listen to this! It’s beautiful and inspirational!

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reuters: Disturbing development at Twitter: countries will silence tweets
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reuters: A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said. Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries So much censorship this month