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Missouri campus police hold suspect for threats to shoot blacks

November 11, 2015 publisher campus-police, college, crucial, ground-tomorrow, online-threats, threats-on-yik, traditions, videogame, wednesday

(Reuters) – A suspect was in custody on Wednesday for making online threats to shoot black students at the University of Missouri following racial protests that prompted the school's president and chancellor to step down this week, campus police said. The announcement followed a post on the social media app Yik Yak on Tuesday, tagged for the college town Columbia. The posting read: “I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see.” In a campus-wide alert early on Wednesday police said they had apprehended the suspect who posted threats on Yik Yak and other social media.

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Welcome to Facebook, Taiwan poll candidate tells Chinese as posts flood in

November 11, 2015 creative china, crucial, democratic, ing-wen, online-threats, party, response, their-central, traditions

Tens of thousands of posts apparently from China have flooded Taiwan presidential election front runner Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook account, demanding that the island return to China – and her response on Wednesday was to welcome mainland interest in democracy. The surge in posts, nearing 70,000 by Wednesday, is all the more astonishing because Facebook is generally blocked in Communist Party-ruled China, although there are ways of getting around firewalls.