Iran's attempts to create a "halal" Internet have hit new heights of irony.

You hear it a lot: people on the Internet are mean.

The Iranian government is deeply scared of the Internet, and not just because the Iranian music industry claims piracy is ruining its profits.

On one side, you've got the single most dedicated and fascinating attempt to keep the Internet anonymous out there.

A favorite tool of Anonymous and whiners who think they're Anonymous, the denial-of-service (DoS) attack is, basically, shutting down a website by making it impossible to connect to the Internet.

For Christmas, the FCC gave the Internet the greatest gift it could find: they agreed to start "white space" broadband tests.

We understand that the governments of the world are a little behind on this whole "internet" thing, what with trying to censor it and pass laws that allow people to shut down a site in the blink of an eye and all that, but you'd think that they would at least be aware that prosecuting over the Terms of Service on a website is, well, pointless.

Hey, remember how MySpace was relevant for, like, four years last decade before being purchased by Rupert Murdoch, right before it got utterly crushed by Facebook.

In the latest story we're sure anti-gaming trolls will barf up to prove that media they don't like is bad, a bunch of Chinese scientists submitted a badly done study that amazingly happens to agree with the Chinese government that video games are bad for you and make you prone to making bad decisions.