The findings in Google's recently updated transparency report were referred to as "troubling" by the company's senior policy analyst Dorothy Chou, who noted a marked increase in requests from various governments to remove political speech from the site.

This single topic food blog run by a Scottish nine-year-old photographing her school lunches was temporarily shut down this week after the school district caught wind of the media attention it was receiving.

First introduced as a viral video slogan created by Mexican students against the country's longtime ruling party and corrupted media, "Yo Soy 132" has become a trending hashtag for mobilizing protests across the country.

When the creator of the webcomic TheOatmeal was threatened with a lawsuit by the owner of FunnyJunk, he responded by starting a charity fundraiser receiving over $100,000 in 24 hours. He plans to send a picture of the money to FunnyJunk along with a drawing of the owner's mother seducing a Kodiak bear.

Earlier today, the Finnish social networking site disabled the chat function entirely after UK's Channel 4 News released an investigative report exposing the alarming presence of pedophiles and cybering on Habbo Hotel.