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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Shoes With Teeth

You know, for Father’s Day. (via The Gloss)

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Assuming Direct Control

Teen Girl Files Lawsuit Over Cyberbullying (After Neither Her School Nor Facebook Helped)

Alex Boston, like many teenagers, has been the victim of relentless and disgusting bullying on Facebook. Some kids thought it would be funny to set up a fake profile in her name, with a distorted picture, on which a false version of her spouted racist remarks among other falsehoods. But when she reached out to her school and the police for help, they didn’t provide any. And when she asked Facebook to take down the fake profile, but they (initially) refused to take down the fake account. Left without any other options, Boston and her parents filed a lawsuit against the kids who were bullying her, as well as their parents, claiming libel.

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the internet is serious business

Pennsylvania Photographer Weeds Out Bullies, Refuses to Photograph Them

Jen McKendrick, a professional photographer who works in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania, declared on her web site this week that she has taken a stand and will not photograph “ugly people.” But wait a goshdarn second — she’s not talking about outer beauty — she’s talking about inner beauty. And after she happened upon several of her scheduled clients writing vicious comments about other students on Facebook, she decided that it was not going to be her job to make people who were ugly on the inside look beautiful on the outside. Even if it cost her business. (Spoiler alert: Business is doing fine!)

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