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* The [[wikipedia:09 F9|AACS encryption key controversy]], in which the [[DRM|AACS]] company tried to stop people posting its cryptographic key, the hexadecimal number 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0, on their sites. Consequently, it started appearing ''all over the Internet in every conceivable context'', and (when searched for on Google) gives more than '''200,000''' Google hits. [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369280,00.asp It happened again] later with the HDCP master key (used in Blu-ray [[DRM]]).
* In 2011, a church in Kentucky told an interracial couple they weren't welcome there anymore, and [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/interracial-couple-banned-from-kentucky-church_n_1121582.html voted to forbid interracial couples from worshiping there], period. The [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/03/gulnare-free-will-baptist-church-revisits-ban_n_1126836.html reactions] practically set a land speed record for backlash and damage control (three ''days'' after the story hit the internet, the people in charge repealed the decision).
* Blogger/[[Cable News Network|CNN]] host Fareed Zakaria once referred to the Corinthians, one of Brazil's biggest teams, as "a small club from Sao Paulo, Brazil". [http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/18/is-brazils-economy-in-danger-of-overheating/ Corinthians fans were simply not amused].
** Later he ran into more and, as they say on ''The People's Cube'', "[http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/fareed-zakaria-can-dish-it-out-but-can-t-take-it-t17438.html Fareed Zakaria can dish it out, but can't take it]".
* The ''entire "neohacker" movement'' was made up of anti-pornography [[Playful Hacker]]s trying to get out a peaceful message. When they were hit with [[Disproportionate Retribution|several worms and a massive denial-of-service-attack that eliminated most of their computers]], all hell broke loose... the "NHPrime" (original neohacker group) group was a major member of the Hacker Unionist Alliance, and their leader was a personal friend of none other than ''[[Byronic Hero|"silver]][[Memetic Badass|omega"]]'', [[The Lancer]] to the founder of that particular (much larger, much more skilled, and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|much more militant]]) movement. The assault was tracked to a group of trolls, who were severely warned (according to some versions of the legend, by silver himself breaking in to their computers' BIOS)... but, in one of the greatest displays of [[Insane Troll Logic]] OF ALL TIME, they decided to troll the NHPrime IRC and forums, now teeming with [[The Cracker|black-hat Unionists]]. One of the founding NHPrime members, [[Lady of War|"ghost"]], just so happened to be administrating the forums that day. Cue [[Stay in the Kitchen|an extremely sexist remark]] from one of the [[Troll]]s... and [[Berserk Button|let it be known]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|that a certain IP address suddenly found itself receiving and executing enough worms and fork bombs]] to completely fragment its hard drive and overload the CPU and RAM.
** The dialogue (bad spelling and grammar replicated) was the best part:
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