While You Were Offline: The Internet Freaks Over the Super Bowl's Ads and Left Shark — wired.com

Well, thanks Super Bowl. Because of you—and more specifically, the advertisements and musical performances surrounding the actual sports part of things—the Internet was filled to the brim with stuff to get upset about and have opinions on this week. Though we’d be remiss if we didn’t also point out you should be paying attention to Twitter’s CEO admitting the company “suck[s] at dealing with abuse” and whatever fallout comes from that, and reading Lindy West’s amazing piece about confronting a vocal troll. Really, those both might give you some hope for the future of humanity when it comes to the Internet … just in time for the following stories to potentially dash that hope against the harsh rocks of reality. Ah well. Here are some highlights from the last seven days on this crazy world wide web of ours.

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