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What Do Llamas Have to Do With AIDS?

Dec 23, 2014
The furry South American creatures may hold the cure to AIDS; Flickr gave up on its plan to sell prints of Creative Commons photos after much criticism; meanwhile, Dick Cheney admits he has no problem with innocent people being tortured. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Flickr User Banished for Criticizing Obama

Jun 10, 2009
Shepherd Johnson's Flickr account, along with an estimated 1,200 photos, vanished shortly after he started hassling the president via the White House's official photostream. Yahoo, which owns the popular photo sharing site, won't comment, but Johnson says he lost access after posting 20 or so negative comments, complete with links to images of torture.