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GoDaddy Stands By Pro-SOPA Position, Becomes Focus of Boycott

by Eric Limer | 11:35 am, December 23rd

For the most part, the technically-inclined world is against SOPA and it seems that only big businesses like Viacom and Universal Music Group are for it. There is one strange exception though: GoDaddy. After customers started asking about the company’s position, GoDaddy came out with this statement, one of the few arguments for SOPA. Needless to say, this has a lot of people upset, the kind of people who have a number of domains, the kind of people who are now calling for a boycott.

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Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme for “Low Seven Figures”

by Max Eddy | 5:23 pm, March 28th

Andrew Baron, operator of Rocketboom, confirmed on his blog that the popular internet culture encyclopedia Know Your Meme has been purchased by Ben Huh’s Cheezburger Network for a “a super seven figure deal.” The announcement on Baron’s blog comes shortly after the news was broken by Tubefilter earlier this afternoon.

The Cheezburger network, which includes such web staples as Fail Blog, Memebase, and The Daily What, recently raised over $30 million with plans for a large-scale expansion of the network’s staff and the sites they operate. The acquisition of KYM is Huh’s first public move since. In an interview with TechCrunch regarding his future plans after raising the $30 million, Huh said, “We’ve only reached the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we can do.”

Though specifics about the future of KYM are scant, Baron offered some details in his announcement. He says that the full staff of KYM, which consists of two full-time and two part-time writers, is moving over to work for Cheezburger Network post-acquisition. At least for now, KYM’s mission will not change: Baron writes that he is “pleased to report that future plans for Know Your Meme will actually focus on maintaining and strengthening the journalistic integrity.”

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LOLCats Guy Offers to Buy Reddit

by Robert Quigley | 9:39 pm, August 27th

In the wake of the Proposition 19 fracas earlier today, which pitted the Reddit community and admins up against the site’s Condé Nast overlords over pro-marijuana reform advertisements, Ben Huh, the CEO of the omnipresent Cheezburger Network that includes sites like I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, and The Daily What, has offered to buy Reddit, saying that the site would “benefit from more resources and less corporate interference.”

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Vancouver and More: 5 Times Pedobear has Infiltrated the Real World

by Robert Quigley | 3:03 pm, February 7th

Thanks to a lazy Google image search, a leading Polish newspaper erroneously claimed that infamous Internet meme Pedobear was one of the mascots of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. But that’s not the first time the pervy bear has fooled the gatekeepers of reality and made its way into the real world:

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