The most powerful people on the Internet don't work for Microsoft, Google or the government. Rather, they're a bunch of antisocial, foul-mouthed, clever nerds who congregate at a largely unknown Web site called 4chan.org.

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The internet has matured into a world of its own, and like the real world, it obeys certain immutable laws. Here are 10 of the most important.

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We posted a relatively amusing screenshot earlier today which saw a highly embarrassing photo posted to someones Facebook profile.

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Reports began to surface on Sunday that AT&T had blocked broadband access to parts of the notorious (and powerful) Internet forum site 4chan.

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YouTube is deleting thousands of sexually explicit videos after it was hit by an organised attack yesterday in a prank known as "Porn Day".

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YouTube is spending its day removing pornographic video clips uploaded as part of an "Porn Day" prank. Some search results at YouTube will continue to show porn images for a few days, despite being removed.

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YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a "Porn Day" campaign against the popular video service.

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The fact that Wikipedia lets anybody edit just isn't enough for some people. Some demand their own Wiki, damn it!

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Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100. Ha, a chanrush - moot is leading everyone and has 13 million more votes than the next person, Anwar Ibrahim. Wow.

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A month ago on the eve of ROFLcon I interviewed the founder of 4chan for a magazine story that never ended up running. He chatted about everything from the techincal complexities of keeping 4chan alive to the anxieties of operating the most controversial site on the internet.

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Jamie Dubs investigates the origins & evolution of the "Yo Dawg" image macro More info & images on the Internet Meme Database:

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In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as  …

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We interview a hacker from the Anonymous movement about 4chan, freedom and whether hackers will bring down the net censorship scheme.

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This invitation on /b/ on 4chan warns of a DDOS attack on foxnews.com tomorrow afternoon. He was kind of asking for it when he described 4chan as a "a far-left website" "providing child pornography to internet pedophiles."

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Here's the short version: there is a site called 4chan.org. It is an image posting site based on a popular Japanese site. The site contains multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to a particular subject. The most notorious of these boards is called /b/.

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Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account hacked, password posted to 4chan. Excellent summary of the events; screencaps on Wikileaks, discussion on Reddit

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To anyone who has inhabited the internet long enough to know ICANN from 4chan or netcat from a LOLcat, it should not come as news that hackers are very frequently libertarians.

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Time magazine calls it the wellspring of net culture and its online pranks are world-famous. David Smith reports on the man who began the chaotic but powerful 4chan website from hom

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Last week a Swastika appeared on Google trends as a top queried term (leading to an endless debate as to whether the symbol was offensive or not).

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Creating viral videos and concepts has become a keystone for many businesses marketing online.

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4chan's /b/ may become a new target of Zen Buddhists after a recent discovery that the hate-talk filled image board of internet fame represents an accurate model for new research in the field.

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With that in mind I introduce my main subject, something that dominates the lowest levels of the internet and permeates upward. It is a term and a condition, a plague and a justification, a way of thinking and a postmodern machine. I speak of the lulz.

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What you also get is the reigning instance of an Internet meme, a running gag that won't stop running but instead reproduces and mutates in the petri dish of the Net's collective imagination. A Google search for lolcats returns 3.3 million results.

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