Just a few days ago, we brought you news that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin had renounced his U.S. citizenship and plans to stay in Singapore. Saverin, who is expected to be worth around $3 billion after Facebook goes public with its Earth-shattering IPO, has been criticized by some who see his decision as simply a means to avoid U.S. capital gains tax. Saverin says that’s not the case, but it could mean that he’d be unable to ever return to these United States.

Confidence in Facebook’s plan to take its company public may have taken a blow today as U.S. automaker General Motors announced that it would no longer be advertising on the social network. The world’s largest automaker is reportedly questioning the value of ads on the website but, interestingly, will not be abandoning the site entirely.

Several news outlets are reporting that some 2,300 dead sea birds have been found along four miles of beach in Chile. The mass avian die-off has left corpses from Cartagena to Playa de Santo Domingo, and is a no doubt unnerving sight. We really need to stop these mass animal die-offs, they’re creeping me out.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is considering enacting a policy that requires adults to opt-in to viewing porn online in the U.K., effectively creating a “porn license,” if you will. Enacting the opt-in will, as you might’ve guessed, require ISPs to block porn by default.

Better be careful what you go around liking on Facebook because according to a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson, likes are not protected speech under the First Amendment. The whole case dates back to 2009 when after winning a reelection bid, Hampton Virginia Sheriff B.J. Roberts fired six of his employees who had liked his opponent’s page on Facebook. The employees filed suit, arguing that their First Amendment rights were violated. Though you might be inclined to agree, Judge Raymond Jackson does not.

At Geekosystem, we’ve talked an awful lot about the rising popularity of eBooks which seems to have been driven in some part by the 2011 holiday season, where consumers bought up huge numbers of Kindle Fires and other tablet devices. However, it seems that Amazon’s buying frenzy was short lived, with shipping numbers for the Fire tanking in the beginning of 2012.

This has been brewing for a while, but the U.K. High Court has now reached a decision that all ISPs in the U.K. must block The Pirate Bay. Popular U.K. ISPs, Everything Everywhere, O2 Sky, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media must now prevent their users from being able to access the piracy site. Though it is certainly annoying for U.K. torrenters, one wonders if the High Court realizes there are, roughly, an seemingly infinite number of popular alternatives.

While not expect to reach a vote until Friday, CISPA has been passed in the House by a majority of 248-168, not quite enough to override a potential veto. During the proceedings Thursday afternoon, CISPA was amended several times before being passed in the early vote. The bill will now move to the Senate.

This is why they didn’t cast Superman in Singing in the Rain.

YouTube hasn’t been having a good month. First, Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against the company was raised from the dead and allowed to proceed, and now a German court has ruled that YouTube is solely responsible for the content uploaded by their users. By extension, YouTube can and will probably be held responsible for paying back royalties on infringing content. It might not be a billion bucks, but it’s still likely to be a hefty fee.