If you missed it (been outside, have you?) the NY Times can catch you up on all the hubbub, bub.
None of this bullshit is about free-speech, sticking it to “the man”, the fight against censorship or anything even approaching those causes. It’s about a bunch of Internet fucks who want to be cool like those other Internet fucks by locking their jaws on the latest, hottest ‘net meme.
I have some hex code of my own for them:
73 68 75 74 20 74 68 65 20 66 75 63 6B 20 75 70 2C 20 6C 6F 73 65 72 73
01001001, 01110100, 00100000, 01110111, 01101111, 01110101, 01101100, 01100100, 00100000, 01100010, 01100101, 00100000, 01101101, 01101111, 01110010, 01100101, 00100000, 01101001, 01101101, 01110000, 01110010, 01100101, 01110011, 01110011, 01101001, 01110110, 01100101, 00100000, 01101001, 01100110, 00100000, 01110100, 01101000, 01101001, 01110011, 00100000, 01110111, 01100001, 01110011, 00100000, 01100001, 00100000, 01100111, 01100101, 01101110, 01110101, 01101001, 01101110, 01100101, 00100000, 01100111, 01110010, 01100001, 01110011, 01110011, 01110010, 01101111, 01101111, 01110100, 01110011, 00100000, 01101101, 01101111, 01110110, 01100101, 01101101, 01100101, 01101110, 01110100, 00100000, 01100001, 01110011, 00100000, 01101111, 01110000, 01110000, 01101111, 01110011, 01100101, 01100100, 00100000, 01110100, 01101111, 00100000, 01110100, 01101000, 01100101, 00100000, 01110011, 01111001, 01100011, 01101111, 01110000, 01101000, 01100001, 01101110, 01110100, 01101001, 01100011, 00100000, 01101000, 01100101, 01110010, 01100100, 00100000, 01101111, 01100110, 00100000, 01000100, 01101001, 01100111, 01100111, 01100101, 01110010, 01110011
True dat. Unfortunately, it’s not…