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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Gizmodo wrote an article about Munmun de Choudhury and the other group of Georgia Tech researchers who decided to study if banning such words helped the communities using them. Instead, they found that it may make matters worse.
Read the full article here: http://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-happened-when-instagram-banned-certain-pro-1763902003?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
