On Christmas day, former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appeared in a televised Christmas message on Britain's Channel 4 in which he urged the people of the world to demand governments put an end to mass surveillance.

After serving 21 months in prison for staging a guerrilla punk prayer at a Moscow cathedral during the anti-Putin rallies in early 2012, Pussy Riot's founding members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina are free at last.

As if a reality TV adaptation of Rich Kids of Instagram didn't seem superfluous enough, the insanely obnoxious Tumblr blog is now being turned into a fictional novel about a group of Affluenza-stricken teenagers.

Justine Sacco, the former PR executive at IAC who recently got fired for posting an insensitive joke about the AIDS crisis before boarding a flight to South Africa, apologized for her "needless and careless tweet" in an official statement sent to the local South African newspaper The Star.

A&E reality TV series Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson's controversial statements regarding homosexuality have ignited a debate on freedom of speech across the web after he was indefinitely suspended from appearing on the most-watched nonfiction cable TV series in history.