Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that a battle between some European hosting company and an anti-spam group threatened the Web as we know it. Gizmodo, however, is calling bull.
“It was a Dutch problem, or at most, a minor Western European problem with a couple actual hotspots,” it writes, citing assertions from several companies that maintain the physical
underpinnings of the entire Internet. “There's scant evidence, though, suggesting even that much (or little) happened at all.”