
Video: Jaguar Drops Aussie Swimmer For Homophobic Remark
Twitter is a great tool for communication. (You follow us, don’t you?) Sure, some folks have criticized it for being just another way to broadcast your choice of oatmeal — and it is. But it’s also a lightning-fast way to share information, as we saw during last year’s protests in Iran, or in the case of a kidnapping that took place earlier this week, when the victim tweeted his location with his captor’s mobile phone.
Unfortunately, Twitter is so easy to use that people often do so without really considering what they’re saying. This week’s cautionary example: Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice, who dropped the f-bomb after a rugby match. I believe her exact words were, “suck on that, faggots”.
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