WordPress has gone to bat for its users in court, joining in two lawsuits over fraudulent DMCA claims that used copyright claims as a means of censoring critics.

Source Boing Boing

A British anti-gay group called “Straight Pride UK” sent a press-release to a British blogger, expressing their admiration for Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws,
and the measures taken in African countries to criminalise gay people (Robert Mugabe has threatened to decapitate gay people).

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Automattic announced today that it has added .CO as a new top-level domain option for WordPress.com users. This joins other options like .ME, .COM, .NET, and .ORG.
It will cost you $25 a year for a .CO domain. To register
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A number of high-profile websites will be taking part in an online protest tomorrow against the National Security Agency (NSA)’s surveillance of online activity and phone calls. The protest is organized by non-profit organization Fight for the Future, and will see participation from thousands of sites,
including WordPress.org, Namecheap, Reddit, 4chan, Mozilla, Fark, TOR,
Cheezburger, Demand Progress, MoveOn, and EFF, among
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