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I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web. Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S. , on a par with the likes of Apple and AOL. Big media, blogs and Google are all beginning to take notice. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/content_farms_impact.php

Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried

ACLU Threatens Suit in Gay Web Site Filtering - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/MindMoodNews/aclu-threatens-suit-gay-web-site-filtering/story?id=7356408 Last December, when Andrew Emitt starting looking for college scholarships, he turned to his high school library, hoping to find Web sites that would guide him . But the Tennessee 17-year-old is gay, and when he searched for organizations that might be friendly to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) students, he hit a firewall.
Aeropolowoman, a journalist who was live tweeting the Mumbai terror attacks from her home in Florida, says that Twitter disabled her direct messaging and @reply facility for an hour citing excessive use. Can twitter temporarily shut you down for excessive use?

Does Twitter Have an ‘Excessive Use’ Policy?

http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-excessive-use-policy/5894/